Tag Archives: Augmented Reality

Buttercup – African Slave Doll

In this video, Dr. Gwen Graham of EKU shows of her family heirloom – a slave doll named Buttercup. She wanted to share this doll with her f2f and online students without bringing in the physical doll, and perhaps damaging it in … Continue reading

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Google’s Project Tango and Augmented Reality

Google recently announced project Tango – a 3D mapping framework that will allow for simple scanning and virtual generation of a real world 3D environment. This project falls in the category of several sensing applications that utilize sensors such as … Continue reading

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Augmented Reality Magic Book: Solar System v.3.0 (Mobile and Desktop)

This is the third iteration of the augmented reality solar system project. We posted an early version of this project using BuildAR framework that worked only on desktop computers in 2011. Then we added a Flash implementation of the same concept … Continue reading

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Occupational Safety Scaffolding

We just posted another video produced with the help of AR. Professor Ron Dotson reviews OSHA regulations for scaffolding in this AR video. This video serves as a preview session for an assignment in OSH 379: Construction Safety. Check out … Continue reading

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Current State of AR

Three years have passed since GE astonished us with their Smart Grid flash based AR commercial. Since then, AR has been slowly being embraced as mainstream technology and was deployed on various devices and platforms. During the GE campaign, we saw … Continue reading

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Augmented Reality (AR) Solar System Magic Book

Updated version of this project can be found here: http://www.arined.org/?p=964 We created this project as an idea generator for further AR projects at Critical Thinking session at EKU. The content for this AR solar system was taken from NASA Web site … Continue reading

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Safety Audit and Document AR Project

This is another example of educational video produced with AR. Dr. Dunlap used previously created warehouse model to develop a student assignment around it (Safety audit and document).  There will be no posted files for this project as we already … Continue reading

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Consumer grade see through HMD glasses from Vuzix

We are a step closer to a consumer grade see through HMD’s this year with the upcoming product from Vuzix. Sean Buckley interviewed Vuzix engineers at CES 2012 and brought you this video: Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on … Continue reading

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GM Opens a New Window on Entertainment (and learning)

Anyone who’s driven through a god-forsaken wasteland like, say, west Texas with young children has glimpsed a corner of hell. The road is long and the scenery boring, a combination that can have your kids pushing you to the limits … Continue reading

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