Hong Kong Educators

We have a visit from a wonderful group of educators from Hong Kong. They are here as part of a study trip in collaboration with Qihua Primary School. 

Colégio Mateus Ricci

A group of educators from Colégio Mateus Ricci, Macau. They are at the final Classroom scenario. 

An Giang University

Well I have not been taking too much photos of our visitors recently. Here are a few from this month. This group of lovely educators are friends from An Giang University, Vietnam. 

Did you know?

Here is a thought provoking video. Originated from Karl Fisch, Scott McLeao and Jeff Bronman, remixed. 

Levelhead - 3D Spatial Memory Game

Here we see a demo of how AR can be presented in different forms. Not necessary on marker cards as we know it, here a cube is used for a 'look into the box' prespective. This might be useful for looking into the 'innards' of everyday objects such as a TV set, in side a camera for example.

Get Fugu

Here is a demo of cross between Augmented Reality and Object Recognition Technology (ORT). This can be considered a simpler form of ORT where the software recognises logos without the aid of an AR marker.

Resources for Augmented Reality

Here are some sites that I have dug up that may be useful for anyone who is interested to try out AR. 

Developers and API

ARToolKit 

FlarTookit (variation of ARToolkit)

Getting Started with FlarToolkit 

NyARToolkit (for mobile phones)

Microsoft Tag

Alex Owal

Games and Applications

Kweekies (AR game for the mobile phone)

Imagine Computer Services (Download Demo AR Zoo)

Wikitude (AR Travel Guide)

AR in Singapore

CamTech (NTU)

MXR Corp (NUS)

AR in a commercial scenario

Handouts and brochures could be used with an AR web application to provide additional prespectives. Ultra cool idea as no software installation is required, and the AR object can be viewed from any browser witha webcam installed.

Augmented Reality Encyclopedia

This application of AR is useful to bridge the real and digital worlds. Newspaper and article clippings are collected in a portfolio, along with the AR marker, digital objects are 'collected' and placed together with related articles.

A useful reader will be to use a large (21"?) transparent 'silk screen' placed between the reader and the book. the silk screen provides the digital elemennt while the reader views the portfolio through the screen.

Augmented Reality in Learning