Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
Before you embark on a virtual reality field trip have your students look at physical maps and have them hypothesize about what they might see on the virtual reality trip. Ask students to use their prior knowledge to form those hypotheses. When they've done that, then go on the VR trip. It will have more meaning to your students if they have a greater context and aren't just touring around a location you sent them to in virtual reality.
Virtual Reality Guide
Augmented Reality in Education
It is an 11 pages PDF packed full of interesting tips, apps, and ideas to
help you make the best of AR technology on your iPad.
Augmented Reality in Education
It is an 11 pages PDF packed full of interesting tips, apps, and ideas to
help you make the best of AR technology on your iPad.
What the Research Says About VR in Classrooms
Virtual Reality 101 Infographic
How Does Virtual Reality Work?
What Is the Difference Between AR and VR?
Can AR be the antidote to virtual classroom shortcomings?.
10 Reasons to Use VR and AR in the Classroom
Building VR/AR Applications in School
Everything You Need to Know to Get Started With AR/VR in the Classroom is from Ed Surge.
Can Virtual Reality Teach Empathy?
How can virtual reality help construction engineers?Researchers tested whether virtual reality could help construction engineers do their jobs more effectively.
Getting Started with Augmented Reality in the Classroom
Reader Idea | New York Times Virtual Reality in the Classroom
How to Use Augmented Reality in Language and Literature Classes
How To Use Augmented Reality in Any Subject Area
7 TED Talks on The Educational Potential of Augmented Reality
How to Use Augmented Reality To Transform Your Classroom
Put Augmented Reality into Your STEM
Why Does Virtual Reality Make Some People Sick?
Survey Finds Teachers Want to Make Virtual Reality a Reality in the Classroom
Making Virtual Reality a Reality in Today’s Classrooms
Virtual Reality as a learning tool
Ripping Learning off the Page is from Edutopia.
Teachers eye potential of virtual reality to enhance science instruction is from Ed Source.
Five Directions for AR in Education
Virtual reality could help students remember better, new research says
Using virtual reality to step into others’ shoes is from The Hechinger Report.
Virtual Reality Could Transform Education as We Know It is from Ed Week.
Future Ready: VR, AR, and MR in the classroom beyond the novelty is by Micah Shippee.
Virtual Reality 101 Infographic
How Does Virtual Reality Work?
What Is the Difference Between AR and VR?
Can AR be the antidote to virtual classroom shortcomings?.
10 Reasons to Use VR and AR in the Classroom
Building VR/AR Applications in School
Everything You Need to Know to Get Started With AR/VR in the Classroom is from Ed Surge.
Can Virtual Reality Teach Empathy?
- article: Empathy in the Classroom: Why Should I Care?” The New York Times’ virtual reality content does a great job of helping students build empathy. You might have students read a series of news articles and then try out a VR experience with the Times’ app, which can help students understand life in other parts of the world better than they would with the articles alone.
How can virtual reality help construction engineers?Researchers tested whether virtual reality could help construction engineers do their jobs more effectively.
Getting Started with Augmented Reality in the Classroom
Reader Idea | New York Times Virtual Reality in the Classroom
How to Use Augmented Reality in Language and Literature Classes
How To Use Augmented Reality in Any Subject Area
7 TED Talks on The Educational Potential of Augmented Reality
How to Use Augmented Reality To Transform Your Classroom
Put Augmented Reality into Your STEM
Why Does Virtual Reality Make Some People Sick?
Survey Finds Teachers Want to Make Virtual Reality a Reality in the Classroom
Making Virtual Reality a Reality in Today’s Classrooms
Virtual Reality as a learning tool
Ripping Learning off the Page is from Edutopia.
Teachers eye potential of virtual reality to enhance science instruction is from Ed Source.
Five Directions for AR in Education
Virtual reality could help students remember better, new research says
Using virtual reality to step into others’ shoes is from The Hechinger Report.
Virtual Reality Could Transform Education as We Know It is from Ed Week.
Future Ready: VR, AR, and MR in the classroom beyond the novelty is by Micah Shippee.
VR Resources
Teach in VR is an online community for educators interested in using virtual reality (VR) in the classroom. In the past, the community has discussed questions such as, What are some of the tools you came across in the classroom? How did you see the excitement of students using VR in the classroom? How was your experience of empathy in education using 360-degree video? What are your tips for teachers who use VR in the classroom? The Teach in VR blog includes ideas and links to other sources for further exploration of VR in the classroom.
How to Choose a Virtual Reality Device for Your Classroom
An Easy Way to Find 360 Videos to Use VR Headsets
Class VR headsets easy to use teacher portal - http://www.classvr.com/classroom-virtual-reality-lessons/
How to make a VR headset for 0 $
article VR PCs
3D Videos Providing Virtual Reality ExperiencesYouTube has a dedicated channel for 3D videos. On their computer, users can scroll around using their mouse, but to enjoy the full virtual reality experience, they can place their smartphone in their VR viewer and choose the Cardboard mode. Some of the best videos have informative narrations. For example, from BBC News comes a 360-degree tour inside the Large Hadron Collider, “the world’s greatest physics experiment,” with a fascinating explanation. Cost: Free Click Here to Visit Website Click Here to Access BBC News Video
Expeditions Pro alternative Google to the closure of their Expeditions program is available for anyone to install on iOS and Android devices. Expeditions Pro has many of the same features that teachers liked about Google Expeditions. Not the least of those is the ability to guide your students on virtual reality tours. As long as you and your students are on the same Wi-Fi network, you can lead them through a tour. www.freetech4teachers.com
** Kathy Schrock's AR And VR Resources
Virtually There
Youtube’s own VR channel
YouTube makes all of its videos viewable on Cardboard virtual reality headset
CodeHS VR curriculum Introduction to Virtual Reality is a mini-course that introduces students to the basics of building virtual reality worlds using HTML and the A-Frame JavaScript Library. Through this course, students will build their own virtual reality worlds that are compatible with VR devices, including smartphone VR headsets!
Don’t have phones? Try going full screen with tablets.
How to Choose a Virtual Reality Device for Your Classroom
An Easy Way to Find 360 Videos to Use VR Headsets
Class VR headsets easy to use teacher portal - http://www.classvr.com/classroom-virtual-reality-lessons/
How to make a VR headset for 0 $
article VR PCs
3D Videos Providing Virtual Reality ExperiencesYouTube has a dedicated channel for 3D videos. On their computer, users can scroll around using their mouse, but to enjoy the full virtual reality experience, they can place their smartphone in their VR viewer and choose the Cardboard mode. Some of the best videos have informative narrations. For example, from BBC News comes a 360-degree tour inside the Large Hadron Collider, “the world’s greatest physics experiment,” with a fascinating explanation. Cost: Free Click Here to Visit Website Click Here to Access BBC News Video
Expeditions Pro alternative Google to the closure of their Expeditions program is available for anyone to install on iOS and Android devices. Expeditions Pro has many of the same features that teachers liked about Google Expeditions. Not the least of those is the ability to guide your students on virtual reality tours. As long as you and your students are on the same Wi-Fi network, you can lead them through a tour. www.freetech4teachers.com
- How to Create Your Own Virtual Reality Tours Above it explains how to lead students on virtual reality tours with Expeditions Pro. In that video it is mentioned that Expeditions Pro can also be used to create your own virtual reality tours. This morning I recorded a video about how do that. Watch video to learn how you can create your own virtual reality tours with Expeditions Pro.
- There are a few things to note from this video before you try creating your own virtual reality tours with Expeditions Pro.
- First, in the demo I used 360 degree imagery that I captured with my Android phone (Pixel 5) and saved in Google Photos.
- Second, I downloaded my 360 imagery from my Google Photos account then imported it into my tour.
- Third, I used Vocaroo.com to record the audio narration for the each view in my tour. I downloaded my audio from Vocaroo as an MP3 file then imported it into my tour on Expeditions Pro www.freetech4teachers.com
- First, in the demo I used 360 degree imagery that I captured with my Android phone (Pixel 5) and saved in Google Photos.
** Kathy Schrock's AR And VR Resources
Virtually There
Youtube’s own VR channel
YouTube makes all of its videos viewable on Cardboard virtual reality headset
CodeHS VR curriculum Introduction to Virtual Reality is a mini-course that introduces students to the basics of building virtual reality worlds using HTML and the A-Frame JavaScript Library. Through this course, students will build their own virtual reality worlds that are compatible with VR devices, including smartphone VR headsets!
Don’t have phones? Try going full screen with tablets.
Create Your Own VR
Google Cardboard here
My Web Ar. Design and publish augmented reality experiences with our simple yet powerful no-code platform
Google AR/VRGoogle offers a lot of free resources for educators focused on various topics. It has many VRy options. Start by checking out the experiences which include resources to learn about math, the human body, science and more. You can also bring prehistoric creatures or other animals into your environment.
The Google Cardboard website has templates that you can print and follow to build your own virtual reality viewers (scroll past the items listed for sale). Instructables also offers a template and directions for making your own VR viewers. The following video covers the process from start to finish.
- VR tours about places students study in geography / history lessons.
- VR tours to illustrate examples of math and science used in the design and construction of landmarks.
- VR tours to illustrate examples of types of landforms, rocks, waterways, and bodies of water.
- VR tours to illustrate examples of an animal’s natural habitat and range. StorySpheres. Created by Google, the idea is to add stories to panoramic photospheres. Instructions
CoSpaces EDU This VR platform has been a favorite of my eighth-grade students as well as my Spanish classes. Teaching a STEAM course was a little more challenging during virtual learning; however, with tools like CoSpaces, students can explore emerging technologies and collaborate from wherever they are! They can create a space in 360, design a parkour game, write an interactive story or build a fun space to explore. Students can also develop coding skills too. With CoSpaces, there is a Merge Cube add-on, that enables students to hold their Cospaces creation in their hands!
Also a VR Creator for IOS and Android
NearpodNearpod is an interactive multimedia learning platform that provides a quick way for educators to get started with VR. I used Nearpod to get started in my Spanish classes and there are thousands of lessons to download that can include 3D objects for students to explore and VR field trips powered by 360 cities. Lessons can be found easily through the VR filter, and some favorites include the college tours and exploring South America, the Great Wonders, even career explorations.
Sites in VR Sites in VR is an app available for download on Android and iOS devices. The locations can be searched based on their type, such as nature, parks, museums, towers and more. Users can choose to explore through the device or by using a headset.
Orb, an iOS app users design and build entire worlds in a matter of minutes by transforming simple shapes into 3D objects. For example, instead of creating a tree on a two-dimensional surface, such as a phone screen, students can build the tree as if it were growing in their classroom. They can walk around the tree, adding leaves as they go. They can add an airplane to the sky or build a bird on their friend’s head. If they take a screenshot or video, students can share a picture of their creation electronically or upload it to the gallery.
StorySpheres Make a VR tour with StorySpheres
Vizor 360 is a simple WebVR tool that lets you create interactive and customizable 360° experiences with zero coding. Just drag and drop your 360° images, link them together, customize and share. free to try
How to Create Virtual Reality Panoramas is from Richard Byrne.
Vizor 360 lets you upload a series of pictures and then stitch them together. After you have stitched your pictures together to create a 360 image you can then add interactive elements to it. Those interactive elements can be links to websites, audio, and additional text and image overlays. A completed project can be viewed and interacted with in a web browser and or a VR headset ( www.freetech4teachers.com )
HistoryView VR offers free virtual reality tours of many national and international historic sites. Whereas some websites offer only a few free tour options, all of HistoryView’s tours are free.
Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate is an excellent video toolbox that provides you with all the features you need to create and share professionally looking videos. You can use it to convert videos between over 150 video and audio formats including the latest 4K and VR.
Google AR/VRGoogle offers a lot of free resources for educators focused on various topics. It has many VRy options. Start by checking out the experiences which include resources to learn about math, the human body, science and more. You can also bring prehistoric creatures or other animals into your environment.
The Google Cardboard website has templates that you can print and follow to build your own virtual reality viewers (scroll past the items listed for sale). Instructables also offers a template and directions for making your own VR viewers. The following video covers the process from start to finish.
- Google Cardboard is a virtual reality viewer, made of cardboard to make it affordable and accessible. To get a taste of Google Cardboard and virtual reality, try the Google Cardboard app.
- Google Cardboard for Android
- Google Cardboard for iOS
- Google Cardboard for Android
- Get Google Cardboard
- Build Your Own Google Cardboard
- Five Virtual Tour Creation Projects for Students www.freetech4teachers.com
- Google Spotlight Stories (360) ( IOS & Android )With the help of this App the phone creates a window to a story all around you, you have the freedom to look anywhere, do whatever you like, follow individual characters, set the pacing and frame the shot. Also, Google Spotlight Stories is a new narrative story format for 360 degree interactive stories so that the viewer moves the device to see different pieces of the content.
- 20 Best VR Apps for Google Cardboard from MakeUseof looks interesting.
- 5 Apps to Use with Google Cardboard is from Class Tech Tips.
- 9 Must-Have Virtual Reality Tools for Teaching with Google Cardboard is from Class Tech Tips.
- Google Cardboard Resources
- Google Cardboard Implementation Suggestions,Lessons, and Resources
- Speak To Go is a new VR experiment from Google that lets users of Google Cardboard say the name of any landmark or address and then be able to view a 360 image of the location. You can also use it online without a Cardboard Headset.
- 5 VR Creation Projects for Students
- VR tours about places students study in geography / history lessons.
- VR tours to illustrate examples of math and science used in the design and construction of landmarks.
- VR tours to illustrate examples of types of landforms, rocks, waterways, and bodies of water.
- VR tours to illustrate examples of an animal’s natural habitat and range. StorySpheres. Created by Google, the idea is to add stories to panoramic photospheres. Instructions
CoSpaces EDU This VR platform has been a favorite of my eighth-grade students as well as my Spanish classes. Teaching a STEAM course was a little more challenging during virtual learning; however, with tools like CoSpaces, students can explore emerging technologies and collaborate from wherever they are! They can create a space in 360, design a parkour game, write an interactive story or build a fun space to explore. Students can also develop coding skills too. With CoSpaces, there is a Merge Cube add-on, that enables students to hold their Cospaces creation in their hands!
Also a VR Creator for IOS and Android
NearpodNearpod is an interactive multimedia learning platform that provides a quick way for educators to get started with VR. I used Nearpod to get started in my Spanish classes and there are thousands of lessons to download that can include 3D objects for students to explore and VR field trips powered by 360 cities. Lessons can be found easily through the VR filter, and some favorites include the college tours and exploring South America, the Great Wonders, even career explorations.
Sites in VR Sites in VR is an app available for download on Android and iOS devices. The locations can be searched based on their type, such as nature, parks, museums, towers and more. Users can choose to explore through the device or by using a headset.
Orb, an iOS app users design and build entire worlds in a matter of minutes by transforming simple shapes into 3D objects. For example, instead of creating a tree on a two-dimensional surface, such as a phone screen, students can build the tree as if it were growing in their classroom. They can walk around the tree, adding leaves as they go. They can add an airplane to the sky or build a bird on their friend’s head. If they take a screenshot or video, students can share a picture of their creation electronically or upload it to the gallery.
StorySpheres Make a VR tour with StorySpheres
Vizor 360 is a simple WebVR tool that lets you create interactive and customizable 360° experiences with zero coding. Just drag and drop your 360° images, link them together, customize and share. free to try
How to Create Virtual Reality Panoramas is from Richard Byrne.
Vizor 360 lets you upload a series of pictures and then stitch them together. After you have stitched your pictures together to create a 360 image you can then add interactive elements to it. Those interactive elements can be links to websites, audio, and additional text and image overlays. A completed project can be viewed and interacted with in a web browser and or a VR headset ( www.freetech4teachers.com )
HistoryView VR offers free virtual reality tours of many national and international historic sites. Whereas some websites offer only a few free tour options, all of HistoryView’s tours are free.
Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate is an excellent video toolbox that provides you with all the features you need to create and share professionally looking videos. You can use it to convert videos between over 150 video and audio formats including the latest 4K and VR.
Sites in VR - The VR App for Those Without VR Headsets
Sites in VR is a free Android and iOS app that provides a 1700 virtual reality views of significant landmarks around the world. The app is a good one for those who would like to experience a bit of virtual reality without having to use a virtual reality headset. ( www.freetech4teachers.com )
Timelooper. This one will take you back to important moments in history from all around the world.
Panoform pairs real-life drawings with VR experiences. To get started, the teacher prints out a grid template for students, who are free to draw and design on the grids. Once a student has finished their design, they take a picture of the grid and upload the picture to Panoform’s website, where they can view their design as a VR experience either on a VR headset or their phone or other device. For example, students can draw molecules in a chemistry class or diagram an organism in biology.
Titans of Space app will take your students to the moon.
UnimersiveVR–learn with VR
Collaborating in Virtual Reality Meeting SpacesWe have spent so much time using tools like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom during school closures or for other work. While we can communicate in these spaces, we don’t truly get the feeling of being in the same “space.” This is where I believe that using VR tools can make an impact. Depending on your role or the grade level that you might teach, several platforms might work. While not all may be a good fit for your classroom, it’s good to know that there are options out there that we can try, if only to explore and promote a discussion with our students about the potential impact of these technologies.
Sites in VR is a free Android and iOS app that provides a 1700 virtual reality views of significant landmarks around the world. The app is a good one for those who would like to experience a bit of virtual reality without having to use a virtual reality headset. ( www.freetech4teachers.com )
Timelooper. This one will take you back to important moments in history from all around the world.
Panoform pairs real-life drawings with VR experiences. To get started, the teacher prints out a grid template for students, who are free to draw and design on the grids. Once a student has finished their design, they take a picture of the grid and upload the picture to Panoform’s website, where they can view their design as a VR experience either on a VR headset or their phone or other device. For example, students can draw molecules in a chemistry class or diagram an organism in biology.
Titans of Space app will take your students to the moon.
UnimersiveVR–learn with VR
Collaborating in Virtual Reality Meeting SpacesWe have spent so much time using tools like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom during school closures or for other work. While we can communicate in these spaces, we don’t truly get the feeling of being in the same “space.” This is where I believe that using VR tools can make an impact. Depending on your role or the grade level that you might teach, several platforms might work. While not all may be a good fit for your classroom, it’s good to know that there are options out there that we can try, if only to explore and promote a discussion with our students about the potential impact of these technologies.
- Web VR This tool makes it possible to experience VR directly from our browsers. With Web VR, there is no need for a specific device or headset. Everyone can experience VR. My first experience with Web VR was through some Web VR experiments for playing games that I tried with the eighth-grade students in my STEAM course. There are many Web VR options out there that can be used for education or even as a way to explore a different way to connect with families and friends.
- Frame VRIt may be the most complex, but again as with some of the other options, it does not take too long to get started or, at the very least, to experience what Frame VR offers. Frame VR enables you to design a more immersive space for collaboration that can be experienced through your web browser, desktop computer, mobile devices or using a VR headset. You can simply share a link with others to join, and even do a presentation which includes sharing a whiteboard or screen sharing, engaging in conversations and more. With the photospheres, you can provide virtual field trips or tours.
- Mozilla HubsMy students really enjoyed trying Mozilla and did not need much from me as for how to get started. With Mozilla, you create a virtual meeting room. You choose an avatar to represent you and can interact with students or other educators, in a different way from being in our traditional class or school meetings. For anyone who prefers not to have the camera on, this is a way to be involved in a class but in a more visually engaging way. It is a space where 3D objects and other content like PDFs and videos can be shared. You can also upload images or take photos with you and the other “people” in the space.
Part 1 Getting Started with Virtual Reality and Google Expeditions
Part 2 How to Use Virtual Reality and Google Expeditions in the Classroom
Part 3: How to Choose a Virtual Reality Device for Your Classroom
Expeditions Tips
Community Resources
RoundMe: Create and describe a VR field trip or virtual tour using informational hotspots, portals to other locations, and directional sound. Although a VR adventure is more immersive when using a viewer, apps like RoundMe make the experience available in full-screen mode to provide flexibility for viewing. (Android & iOS)
Patches is a free online tool for creating virtual reality scenes. Patches offers animated characters, animals, buildings, and common objects that you can place inside a virtual reality scene. Just drag and drop objects and animations from the selection menus to the Patches design canvas. You can create and customize your VR scenes as much as you like by changing object positioning, color schemes, and even the speed at which an animation moves. You can preview your VR scenes within the Patches editor. ( http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ )
Google Blocks is a free VR app for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. It’s designed to simplify the creation of three-dimensional models for virtual and augmented reality. It is similar to the company’s previous Tile Brush app, which lets users paint in virtual space
Virtual Reality Lab Virtual reality (VR) can transport students to the beaches in the Maldives, on a science expedition in the Arctic, or into the middle of a refugee camp. The Global Nomads Group (GNG) is harnessing the power of virtual reality (VR) technology to spark curiosity and cultivate empathy in classrooms. GNG’s VR programs are accompanied by curriculum and span across a variety of themes and topics that support global citizenship education. Whether the classroom has 1:1 tablets or is fully equipped with VR headsets, GNG has designed lesson plans to support learning with VR technology. Teachers can get started in the classroom by downloading GNG’s free app for iOS and Android and choosing from two VR lessons—“One World, Many Stories” and “Syrian Conflict”—accessible on GNG’s website. Each lesson takes two to three class periods to fully implement. Click Here to Visit Website Plus: For teachers who are new to VR, GNG has designed a toolkit to help them walk their class through different VR experiences. Click Here to Access Free Toolkit
Part 2 How to Use Virtual Reality and Google Expeditions in the Classroom
Part 3: How to Choose a Virtual Reality Device for Your Classroom
Expeditions Tips
Community Resources
RoundMe: Create and describe a VR field trip or virtual tour using informational hotspots, portals to other locations, and directional sound. Although a VR adventure is more immersive when using a viewer, apps like RoundMe make the experience available in full-screen mode to provide flexibility for viewing. (Android & iOS)
Patches is a free online tool for creating virtual reality scenes. Patches offers animated characters, animals, buildings, and common objects that you can place inside a virtual reality scene. Just drag and drop objects and animations from the selection menus to the Patches design canvas. You can create and customize your VR scenes as much as you like by changing object positioning, color schemes, and even the speed at which an animation moves. You can preview your VR scenes within the Patches editor. ( http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ )
Google Blocks is a free VR app for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. It’s designed to simplify the creation of three-dimensional models for virtual and augmented reality. It is similar to the company’s previous Tile Brush app, which lets users paint in virtual space
Virtual Reality Lab Virtual reality (VR) can transport students to the beaches in the Maldives, on a science expedition in the Arctic, or into the middle of a refugee camp. The Global Nomads Group (GNG) is harnessing the power of virtual reality (VR) technology to spark curiosity and cultivate empathy in classrooms. GNG’s VR programs are accompanied by curriculum and span across a variety of themes and topics that support global citizenship education. Whether the classroom has 1:1 tablets or is fully equipped with VR headsets, GNG has designed lesson plans to support learning with VR technology. Teachers can get started in the classroom by downloading GNG’s free app for iOS and Android and choosing from two VR lessons—“One World, Many Stories” and “Syrian Conflict”—accessible on GNG’s website. Each lesson takes two to three class periods to fully implement. Click Here to Visit Website Plus: For teachers who are new to VR, GNG has designed a toolkit to help them walk their class through different VR experiences. Click Here to Access Free Toolkit
VR Apps
VR Math IOS & Android Interactive Application to help students understand 3D geometry, graphs and vectors.
Calculus in Virtual Reality (CalcVR) app for iOS and Android contains a wealth of content focused on multivariable calculus, covering topics such as 2D Coordinates and Graphs, 3D Coordinates and Graphs, Curves and Surfaces, and Vector Valued Functions. The twist is that the content is set against a backdrop of 360-degree images.
New York Times Experience (IOS and Android)n the sounds and sights from around the world. You may want to use it for background of a book.
Calculus in Virtual Reality (CalcVR), an app for iOS, uses a Google Cardboard headset to enable the user to visualize concepts in multivariable calculus within a virtual reality setting. Users can specify their own objects for visualization, as well as go through lessons on the geometry and calculus of multivariable functions and the corresponding surfaces. In addition, users can explore the concepts covered in the lessons through interactive demonstrations that address 2D and 3D coordinates and graphs, curves and surfaces, vector valued functions of one variable, vector fields, multivariable functions, and vector calculus.
East of the Rockies $3,99 gr. 7-12AR experience offers moving insight into tragic history of internment
MERGE Cube and MERGE Goggles are powerful learning tools that help students visualize and understand abstract concepts by giving them memorable, authentic, and tactile learning experiences using virtual and augmented reality technology. With MERGE Cube, students can explore their world in a new way by holding holograms of the Solar System, human body, and hundreds of other objects. The simple act of slipping their smartphone into MERGE Goggles transports students to virtual worlds. Mr. Body, a holographic anatomy lesson, and HoloGLOBE, AR visualizations of Earth, are among the many free apps developed for MERGE Cube.
Resources from MIT
Speak To Go is a new VR experiment from Google that lets users of Google Cardboard say the name of any landmark or address and then be able to view a 360 image of the location. You can also use it online without a Cardboard Headset.
Sites in VR is a free Android and iOS app that provides a 1700 virtual reality views of significant landmarks around the world.
Libraries of Life ( Android also) is a Thematic Collections Networks focused on creating digital, web-deployed information about the nation’s billion biodiversity specimens to benefit science and society. Arizona State University’s Anne Basham (ExplorMor Labs/BioKIC, Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center) and Florida State University’s Austin Mast (Department of Biological Science and iDigBio) led development. This project aims to develop a learning tool that will promote engagement with biodiversity specimens and their data through a set of augmented reality collection cards.
Parks Explorer have created a mobile app that lets students navigate through various national parks.
LEGO Connect Explore exciting 4D content using LEGO Connect and the LEGO Club magazine. LEGO® Connect offers a rich portal that lets you activate every type of interaction with seamless utility. To access additional content in LEGO® publication look for pages and pictures with the LEGO Connect icon. Connect to learn more about LEGO sets, product designer videos and instantly view 3D models.’
Discovery Channel VR. With this app you can access lots of content from the Discovery Channel. Google Play and iTunes.
Unimersiv Explore ancient Rome in virtual reality using Unimersiv app.As its name suggests, this experience lets you explore Ancient Rome in Virtual Reality (available on the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift for now). You will able to discover and learn about all the major monuments that made Rome such a fascinating place.
Jaunt VR, you can become immersed in mystic, distant and amazing places which you may explore in reality one day. Until then, you can get the app for free on Google Play or iTunes.
Flyover feature in Apple Maps App
Using this feature will allow you to take your students on virtual tours to explore the world in 3D. You can visit over 250 cities and destinations from all around the world. video tutorial
The Body VR lets users experience the wonders of the human body and its billions of living cells. Users travel through the bloodstream and learn everything there is to know about how blood cells work to spread oxygen through the human body. They also learn how the body reacts when it is faced with deadly viruses.
WhatWasThere and your iPhone or iPod Touch becomes a portable portal into the past! After launch, the app will detect where you are and show you any historic photographs that were captured nearby plotted on a map!
Timelooper - time travel App for IOS and Android devices allows users to experience key moments in history.
Field Trip your guide to the hidden and unique things in the world around you is now on the iPhone! Field Trip runs in the background on your phone. When you get close to something interesting, it will notify you and if you have a headset or bluetooth connected, it can even read the info to you. android
Discovery TRVLR created by Google in partnership with Discovery. The series feature virtual reality tours filmed on Jump cameras. ‘Discovery TRVLR takes you on voyages to all seven continents, and by focusing on locals, you’ll uncover the hidden stories of these places and learn things you’d never see in a travel guidebook.’ Until now some of the places covered include a virtual dive into a bottomless cave in Auckland in New Zealand, a visit to the haunting island (Isla de las Munecas) in Mexico City, a tour of the underside of Cape Town with a cab operator, and ‘cap it all off riding alongside a polar explorer through ice caves and the frozen tundra of Antarctica.’ You can follow these Discovery TRVLR series on YouTube or through the 'Discovery VR app on app on Daydream, and watch them with your Cardboard or Daydream View'.
WallaMe ( android ) - Craft a treasure hunt by leaving private, geolocated, augmented reality messages all around.
Anatomy 4D Through this app and a simple printed image, Anatomy 4D transports students, teachers, medical professionals, and anyone who wants to learn about the body into an interactive 4D experience of human anatomy. Visually stunning and completely interactive, Anatomy 4D uses augmented reality and other cutting edge technologies to create the perfect vehicle for 21st century education.
Boulevard offers educators and students the opportunity to explore art galleries all over the world, fostering student discovery without leaving school and adding new energy to classroom discussions. On Boulevard’s Art & Culture page, students can access the world’s great art collections and cultural sites from their classroom. The free VR experiences complement educational curriculum across disciplines and open up new possibilities for learning. The customizable, user-controlled experiences are designed to encourage inquiry, exploration, and critical thinking. The user can actively choose any path, zoom up close to paintings, explore spaces, wander galleries, select audio, and peruse content to generate an individualized visit each time. From its Educate page, Boulevard provides original, easily downloadable, and fully integrated curriculum for each of its museum experiences.
Minigames to Increase Environmental Awareness
Fighting climate change becomes interactive with the free Cleanopolis VR app for iOS and Android by Groupe EDF. Students learn about CO2 and battle along with Captain Clean in the fight against climate change. Assisted by their faithful companion, Tobby, students and Captain Clean explore a 3D city and discover its four districts. The app features eight minigames in which students must reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases in each district. Quizzes let students evaluate their ecological footprint and learn how to improve it. And a movie theaterplays an educational film starring Igloo the penguin, who explains climate change. For an immersive experience and a wow effect, students can use 3D glasses (cardboards).
The Pack ( gr. 5 - 12) created by the New York Hall of Science, is an open virtual-world game based around two timely STEM subjects--environmental awareness and computational thinking. The game is set in a future world where healthy ecosystems have faltered and resources are scarce. To restore the environment, students embark on an open-ended quest to find food and water by using their “Pack”—creatures that have unique functions, such as digging, moving, holding, grabbing, and repeating. When their Pack has more than one type of creature, players can combine the creatures into an algorithm to perform tasks and overcome challenges. The Pack is procedurally generated, and each game students start will be in a completely unique world. As they advance, students create more complex algorithms that allow them to do new things. The game is freely downloadable on Mac and Windows computers and is available as a free app for iOS mobile devices.
GeoShow both paid and free interactive virtual field trips, as well as private shows is a geography-based experience that can accommodate from one to 90 classrooms at a time. The experience includes a Kahoot! Quiz that allows learners to play head to head with other participating classrooms. Accompanying the trips are lesson plans, standards alignments, show-day checklists, instructions for both the Zoom videoconferencing and the Kahoot! game-based learning platform, student field-trip notes, and a passport to keep track of journeys with stamps.
Life of a Monarch Butterfly is an interactive application for teaching the life cycle of a butterfly. The lesson can be done as a whole class or one-on-on. The application has been designed with the teacher in mind and includes easy to follow instructions for every portion.
VR Hangar produced by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. This virtual reality app is available to use on Android phones and on iPhones. VR Hangar contains three virtual reality tours that feature landmark moments in aviation history. Those moments are the Wright Brothers' first flight, Chuck Yeager's record-breaking flight in the Bell X-1, and the Apollo 11 mission. Each of these tours incorporates artifacts from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. (Richard Byrne)
Calculus in Virtual Reality (CalcVR) app for iOS and Android contains a wealth of content focused on multivariable calculus, covering topics such as 2D Coordinates and Graphs, 3D Coordinates and Graphs, Curves and Surfaces, and Vector Valued Functions. The twist is that the content is set against a backdrop of 360-degree images.
New York Times Experience (IOS and Android)n the sounds and sights from around the world. You may want to use it for background of a book.
Calculus in Virtual Reality (CalcVR), an app for iOS, uses a Google Cardboard headset to enable the user to visualize concepts in multivariable calculus within a virtual reality setting. Users can specify their own objects for visualization, as well as go through lessons on the geometry and calculus of multivariable functions and the corresponding surfaces. In addition, users can explore the concepts covered in the lessons through interactive demonstrations that address 2D and 3D coordinates and graphs, curves and surfaces, vector valued functions of one variable, vector fields, multivariable functions, and vector calculus.
East of the Rockies $3,99 gr. 7-12AR experience offers moving insight into tragic history of internment
MERGE Cube and MERGE Goggles are powerful learning tools that help students visualize and understand abstract concepts by giving them memorable, authentic, and tactile learning experiences using virtual and augmented reality technology. With MERGE Cube, students can explore their world in a new way by holding holograms of the Solar System, human body, and hundreds of other objects. The simple act of slipping their smartphone into MERGE Goggles transports students to virtual worlds. Mr. Body, a holographic anatomy lesson, and HoloGLOBE, AR visualizations of Earth, are among the many free apps developed for MERGE Cube.
Resources from MIT
- Electrostatic Playground: A Multi-User Virtual Reality Physics Learning Experience: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/vr-physics-lab/overview/
- MIT Advanced Identity Representation (AIR) Project: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/icelab/associated-projects/advanced-identity-representation-air-project
- Cocoverse- VR playground for collaboration and communication - http://fluid.media.mit.edu/projects/cocoverse
Speak To Go is a new VR experiment from Google that lets users of Google Cardboard say the name of any landmark or address and then be able to view a 360 image of the location. You can also use it online without a Cardboard Headset.
Sites in VR is a free Android and iOS app that provides a 1700 virtual reality views of significant landmarks around the world.
Libraries of Life ( Android also) is a Thematic Collections Networks focused on creating digital, web-deployed information about the nation’s billion biodiversity specimens to benefit science and society. Arizona State University’s Anne Basham (ExplorMor Labs/BioKIC, Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center) and Florida State University’s Austin Mast (Department of Biological Science and iDigBio) led development. This project aims to develop a learning tool that will promote engagement with biodiversity specimens and their data through a set of augmented reality collection cards.
Parks Explorer have created a mobile app that lets students navigate through various national parks.
LEGO Connect Explore exciting 4D content using LEGO Connect and the LEGO Club magazine. LEGO® Connect offers a rich portal that lets you activate every type of interaction with seamless utility. To access additional content in LEGO® publication look for pages and pictures with the LEGO Connect icon. Connect to learn more about LEGO sets, product designer videos and instantly view 3D models.’
Discovery Channel VR. With this app you can access lots of content from the Discovery Channel. Google Play and iTunes.
Unimersiv Explore ancient Rome in virtual reality using Unimersiv app.As its name suggests, this experience lets you explore Ancient Rome in Virtual Reality (available on the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift for now). You will able to discover and learn about all the major monuments that made Rome such a fascinating place.
Jaunt VR, you can become immersed in mystic, distant and amazing places which you may explore in reality one day. Until then, you can get the app for free on Google Play or iTunes.
Flyover feature in Apple Maps App
Using this feature will allow you to take your students on virtual tours to explore the world in 3D. You can visit over 250 cities and destinations from all around the world. video tutorial
The Body VR lets users experience the wonders of the human body and its billions of living cells. Users travel through the bloodstream and learn everything there is to know about how blood cells work to spread oxygen through the human body. They also learn how the body reacts when it is faced with deadly viruses.
WhatWasThere and your iPhone or iPod Touch becomes a portable portal into the past! After launch, the app will detect where you are and show you any historic photographs that were captured nearby plotted on a map!
Timelooper - time travel App for IOS and Android devices allows users to experience key moments in history.
Field Trip your guide to the hidden and unique things in the world around you is now on the iPhone! Field Trip runs in the background on your phone. When you get close to something interesting, it will notify you and if you have a headset or bluetooth connected, it can even read the info to you. android
Discovery TRVLR created by Google in partnership with Discovery. The series feature virtual reality tours filmed on Jump cameras. ‘Discovery TRVLR takes you on voyages to all seven continents, and by focusing on locals, you’ll uncover the hidden stories of these places and learn things you’d never see in a travel guidebook.’ Until now some of the places covered include a virtual dive into a bottomless cave in Auckland in New Zealand, a visit to the haunting island (Isla de las Munecas) in Mexico City, a tour of the underside of Cape Town with a cab operator, and ‘cap it all off riding alongside a polar explorer through ice caves and the frozen tundra of Antarctica.’ You can follow these Discovery TRVLR series on YouTube or through the 'Discovery VR app on app on Daydream, and watch them with your Cardboard or Daydream View'.
WallaMe ( android ) - Craft a treasure hunt by leaving private, geolocated, augmented reality messages all around.
Anatomy 4D Through this app and a simple printed image, Anatomy 4D transports students, teachers, medical professionals, and anyone who wants to learn about the body into an interactive 4D experience of human anatomy. Visually stunning and completely interactive, Anatomy 4D uses augmented reality and other cutting edge technologies to create the perfect vehicle for 21st century education.
Boulevard offers educators and students the opportunity to explore art galleries all over the world, fostering student discovery without leaving school and adding new energy to classroom discussions. On Boulevard’s Art & Culture page, students can access the world’s great art collections and cultural sites from their classroom. The free VR experiences complement educational curriculum across disciplines and open up new possibilities for learning. The customizable, user-controlled experiences are designed to encourage inquiry, exploration, and critical thinking. The user can actively choose any path, zoom up close to paintings, explore spaces, wander galleries, select audio, and peruse content to generate an individualized visit each time. From its Educate page, Boulevard provides original, easily downloadable, and fully integrated curriculum for each of its museum experiences.
Minigames to Increase Environmental Awareness
Fighting climate change becomes interactive with the free Cleanopolis VR app for iOS and Android by Groupe EDF. Students learn about CO2 and battle along with Captain Clean in the fight against climate change. Assisted by their faithful companion, Tobby, students and Captain Clean explore a 3D city and discover its four districts. The app features eight minigames in which students must reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases in each district. Quizzes let students evaluate their ecological footprint and learn how to improve it. And a movie theaterplays an educational film starring Igloo the penguin, who explains climate change. For an immersive experience and a wow effect, students can use 3D glasses (cardboards).
The Pack ( gr. 5 - 12) created by the New York Hall of Science, is an open virtual-world game based around two timely STEM subjects--environmental awareness and computational thinking. The game is set in a future world where healthy ecosystems have faltered and resources are scarce. To restore the environment, students embark on an open-ended quest to find food and water by using their “Pack”—creatures that have unique functions, such as digging, moving, holding, grabbing, and repeating. When their Pack has more than one type of creature, players can combine the creatures into an algorithm to perform tasks and overcome challenges. The Pack is procedurally generated, and each game students start will be in a completely unique world. As they advance, students create more complex algorithms that allow them to do new things. The game is freely downloadable on Mac and Windows computers and is available as a free app for iOS mobile devices.
GeoShow both paid and free interactive virtual field trips, as well as private shows is a geography-based experience that can accommodate from one to 90 classrooms at a time. The experience includes a Kahoot! Quiz that allows learners to play head to head with other participating classrooms. Accompanying the trips are lesson plans, standards alignments, show-day checklists, instructions for both the Zoom videoconferencing and the Kahoot! game-based learning platform, student field-trip notes, and a passport to keep track of journeys with stamps.
Life of a Monarch Butterfly is an interactive application for teaching the life cycle of a butterfly. The lesson can be done as a whole class or one-on-on. The application has been designed with the teacher in mind and includes easy to follow instructions for every portion.
VR Hangar produced by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. This virtual reality app is available to use on Android phones and on iPhones. VR Hangar contains three virtual reality tours that feature landmark moments in aviation history. Those moments are the Wright Brothers' first flight, Chuck Yeager's record-breaking flight in the Bell X-1, and the Apollo 11 mission. Each of these tours incorporates artifacts from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. (Richard Byrne)
AR
Free iBook Augmented Reality in Education can read on a iPad or Mac
7 TED Talks on The Educational Potential of Augmented Reality
article: How to Use Augmented Reality To Transform Your Classroom
Put Augmented Reality into Your STEM
✅Kathy Schrock's AR And VR Resources
How to Create Videos of Augmented Reality Animals
Arloon Plants. With this app, students can explore interactive plants to learn about structure and parts. Using the Arloon trigger, students can even watch a plant grow and move in an AR experience.
An Easy Way to Get Search Results in 3D Google Search offers an interesting AR feature that allows users to view and interact with 3D objects. Students can use this functionality to visualize, for instance, complex STEM concepts and to contextualize them within their own space. However, this feature is only available on mobile. It works on iPhone 6s or later, iOS 11 and up, and Android devices.
To view 3d results and interact with them in AR, students need to:
- "On your iPhone, open Safari, Chrome , or the Google app .
- Go to google.com.
- Search for an animal, object, or place.
- If a 3D result is available, tap View in 3D .
- To interact with the 3D result: In AR: Tap AR and follow the on-screen instructions.On your iPhone: Tap Object."\
Sandbox AR from Discovery Education AR is an app that was launched in 2022. The free augmented reality app, available on iPad only at the time of the launch, Using the app, students and teachers enter an empty space—for example, a school hallway—and hold up the tablet with the camera on. Instead of displaying the empty area, the app overlays digital creations in that space. Users can then move about in the real world to explore the virtual creation. For example, students can explore an ancient Roman city as if it were really in front of them. That opens up the possibilities for school trips, allowing students not only to travel the globe virtually but also to visit certain places in time. The tool will continue to grow. Development is under way for major events such as Tutankhamun’s 100th anniversary.
AR-kid: Space is an app that takes young learners on virtual journeys into outer space. Drawing on augmented reality technology, AR-kid: Space creates immersive learning experiences where kids get to explore space in AR. The virtual journey is initiated through the device camera. Throughout the space tour, kids will be guided by a robot who will provide explanations of various spatial concepts and objects. "From launching a rocket from his or her own room, to seeing the Earth from the perspective of the moon, it creates an immersive experience that is both entertaining and educational." Using AR-kid: Space kids will get to lear "learn a lot about space travel, the moon, the astronauts and their tasks and vehicles, the solar system, the planets, etc." AR-kid: Space is now on sale. It is free and only for a limited period of time.
Video about how they are using AR in school
AR Maker - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ar-makr/id1434081130
My Web AR - https://mywebar.com/edu/
Reality Composer - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reality-composer/id1462358802
Augmentaty - http://www.aumentaty.com/indexEN.php
Sketchfab - https://sketchfab.com/
East of the Rockies is an experimental augmented-reality (AR) story written by 85-year-old Joy Kogawa, one of Canada’s most acclaimed and celebrated literary figures. The story is told from the perspective of Yuki, a 17-year-old girl forced from her home and made to live in the Slocan internment camp during the Second World War. As Yuki and her family adjust to their new reality inside the camp, they struggle to make life as normal as possible. Users follow the story by tapping, swiping, inspecting, and zooming in on key elements within each scene.
Augmented Reality Tool to Copy and Paste Physical Objects into Digital Documents
ClipDrop is an Augmented Reality app that allows you to transform the physical world into the virtual space. Using ClipDrop you will be able to easily capture any visual from your physical surroundings and paste it right into your digital documents. Drawing on AI technology, ClipDrop removes the background from copied visuals allowing you to paste the object as it is. This is definitely an excellent way for students to incorporate visuals taken from real world (e.g, a field trip) into their class projects. ClipDrop is available for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. ClipDrop on desktop works as a screen capture enabling you to capture anything displayed on your screen. Using the mobile app you can instantly paste visuals taken by the camera of your phone right into your computer.The process is simple and easy. Point your camera at a given object, shoot and ClipDrop automatically clip it for you. If your desktop is already connected with the mobile app you simply bring your phone near your computer and allow the wireless transfer to take place.
Augment lets you place a wide range of virtual objects into your environment, with options to move, resize, capture and share them from within the app. Users can choose from a variety of existing models in the database, scan objects from QR codes or import any created in external 3D modeling programs. Premium accounts on Augment’s platform get access to a host of corporate-friendly features for making sure your product reaches its intended audience. Augment is a platform through which you can upload images to have them turned into 3D models that your students can then view through their iPads or Android tablets. The 3D models that are displayed are referred to as "Trackers" on the Augment platform. Watch the video below to see them in action. lets you place a wide range of virtual objects into your environment, with options to move, resize, capture and share them from within the app. Users can choose from a variety of existing models in the database, scan objects from QR codes or import any created in external 3D modeling programs. Premium accounts on Augment’s platform get access to a host of corporate-friendly features for making sure your product reaches its intended iPad app free
Quantum Rascals interactive AR puzzle game, by University of Southern Denmark, teaches students about quantum physics in a playful and innovative way. In the game, which is free to download on iOS devices, students help Quantum Kate discover subatomic particles and become a true Quantum Rascal.
World Brush: Here, users are drawing on the real world and can share their creations with others.
Holo lets users place a variety of holographic models and figures into a scene for photo and video capture. The app does limit you to a single hologram at a time, but it’s still one of the most enjoyable AR experiences on the market today due to its extensive library of content available. You can also easily share all of your creations directly from the app’s built-in access to popular social media platforms.
BLVRD Features app for iOS brings users engrossing art and culture stories from around the world and throughout the ages, all in augmented reality. Users place iconic paintings, prints, drawings, and more in their space. Then they get close to these works and discover details about art, history, innovation, design, and the creative process that they never would have considered—including fascinating connections between the past and the contemporary world.
WWF Free Rivers is a free augmented reality app produced by the World Wildlife Foundation. The app uses augmented reality to present a story about rivers. WWF Free Rivers tells students stories about the implications of changes in weather patterns, damming rivers, and pollution on river ecosystems. Students interact with these stories by moving their iPads and or by pinching and zooming on elements in the stories.
MoatBoat: With this app, students and teachers can type or speak instructions, and the program will create it.
Creaturizer from PBS Kids is a free iOS and Android app that lets students create fun cartoon creatures then place them into outdoor settings through the use of augmented reality. In the app students create cartoon creatures by swiping and tapping on the features they want their creatures to have (students can have multiple creature creations in the app). Then students go outside to take pictures that place their creatures in settings in which they utilize the features and traits of the fictional creatures
Leo app for iOS and Android allows users to experience advanced augmented reality (AR) through realistic animated and 3D objects in the real world. Students’ phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows them to augment their world through Leo. Students can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams, expressing themselves in a new mixed-reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends, and other social outlets. When students open Leo, the app will immediately begin using their device’s camera and sensors to figure out where it can potentially place AR objects.
Elements 4D Part educational story and part game, the Elements 4D app offers a new, fun way to experience augmented reality and learn about real-life chemistry.
Human Anatomy Atlas 2018: This iOS app lets students dissect an AR cadaver and explore the human body. Learn about all the body systems, watch muscle movements, and more.
Virtual AR Physics Lab for Curious MindsAnyone can enjoy the fun of scientific experiments with Physics Lab AR by Turtle Sim for iOS and Android devices. Teachers can demonstrate physics in class, and students can explore concepts inside and beyond the classroom. In augmented reality (AR) mode, users can experiment with various circuit components, build their own 3D electric circuits, and see how their circuits work in real time. They can choose from more than 20 circuit components (with more coming), drag them from the toolbox to their desktop, and connect them the way they like. They can set properties of circuit components to different figures and observe change of behavior and stats in real time, and with one click, they can turn what they built into an editable circuit diagram.
Wonderscope is an iPad and iPhone app that uses augmented reality featuring stories that students interact with through voice and touch. Students position animations and interact with story animations by moving their iPads and reading the lines that appear on their screens ( www.freetech4teachers.com )
Storyfab: Reconstruct and record a scene using AR with this iOS app. Using a visual such as a book or photo, students can add AR props and characters on top of the image. Push record and animate the characters with emotions and gestures while walking around the scene for the best shot.
Big Bang AR app for iOS and Android invites students to join scientists on an epic, mixed-reality journey through the birth and evolution of our Universe
AR Moon – Explore Solar System: This iOS app lets teachers transport their classroom as students use AR and VR to walk through a portal and explore the surface of the moon. The students are challenged to drive the rover to specific locations while controlling the arm of the machine to perform tasks. One of the app’s many benefits is that it encourages active learning, with students getting up and moving around.
Spacecraft AR is a free iPad and Android app offered by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The app enables students to learn about various NASA spacecraft including the Curiosity rover, Voyager, Mars Exploration Rover, and a handful of other spacecraft. Spacecraft AR includes information about each spacecraft's development and use.www.freetech4teachers.com
The Walking With Dinosaurs app uses a bit of augmented reality to take students on a virtual walk with dinosaurs. To use the apps you have to print out the "targets" that when scanned reveal a dinosaur's story. The apps also allow your students to include pictures of themselves in settings with the dinosaurs that they learn about through the app (www.frretech4teachers)
Portals: Travel with AR app for iOS, students can experience, in augmented reality, different historic and artistic places around the world through time. The app enables students to walk in and out of portals to new places without ever leaving their classroom. The current collection includes Ancient Medieval Rome, with more to come. The next update will allow users to upload their own 360-degree images. Costs: Free app; with in-app purchases ranging from $1.99 to $4.99
Augmented Reality Freedom Stories Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and the Augmented Reality Lab York University, Toronto, have collaborated to bring you Augmented Reality Freedom Stories.
Layar Scan print materials enhanced with Layar to view rich digital experiences right on top! Then be amazed as extra digital content appears, allowing you to interact with your world in a whole new way!
Some of the features Layar provides to users:
- See magazines come alive with videos right on the page!
- Easily buy items with direct mobile shopping links.
- Connect with links to web content and share items on social media.
- Browse and view thousands of Geo Layers to find stuff nearby, like ATMs, restaurants, historical locations and more!
- Pop out content. Enjoy interactive print away from the page! Tap the pop out icon and continue your experience.
- Favorites. Save your favorite interactive print experiences so you can view them again later without needing to scan
junaio is the most advanced mobile augmented reality browser. It’s a fast and easy way to discover your world. Find local events, offers and listings; scan QR codes and barcodes to get instant access to additional information; unlock augmented content on images and objects to play games or experience new virtual interactions.
Membit is a augmented reality app for use on iPhones. The app lets you place view images superimposed over the current backdrop that you see through your phone's camera. For example, you could open the app, point your camera at a building, and then see an image of what the building used to look like. video .
Orb, a new ARKit app for iOS by Pantheon, uses augmented reality to develop maker skills. Students young and old can design and build entire worlds in a matter of minutes by transforming simple shapes into 3D objects. For example, instead of creating a tree on a two-dimensional surface such as a phone screen, students can build the tree so it looks like it’s growing in their classroom. They can walk around the tree, adding leaves as they go. They can add an airplane to the sky or build a spider on their friend’s head! If they take a screenshot or video, students can share a picture of their creation through email or whatever sharing options are on their devices. They can even export to a 3D printer.
Science AR is the Augmented Reality App for schools. Makes the Science AR posters come alive. This App works in conjunction with the Science AR posters. Not in isolation.
AR Portal (iOS only). Become Dr. Strange and create AR portals in your classroom. Walk around the world in places such as Niagara Falls, a Swedish castle and Yokohama, Japan. The app allows the student to walk in and out of portals to new places without ever leaving the classroom. The next update will allow you to upload your own 360 images. Until then, enjoy the library of portal locations to explore.
The MERGE Mr. Body anatomy experience is well suited to young students as they rotate the cartoon character while examining and interacting with specific body systems and parts, such as the heart, lung, liver, and brain. Students explore and interact with the human anatomy using the free iOS app and MERGE Cube, a soft block that interacts with augmented reality apps. Students then explain their understanding by sharing the screen and their voice using the Record feature within the app. The Stamping feature gets students up and moving around the animated 3D objects and still provides the same interactions without the cube in view. Teachers will find a free lesson plan for Mr. Body on the MERGE website. The MERGE Explorer app offers many other content cards that read content in multiple languages,
Zoo-AR Zoo-AR is an Augmented Reality application with a variety of animals and insects available for viewing in 3D. Simply download the correct markers and either print them out or view them on another device.
TaleBlazer- a blocks-based software environment for creating and playing location-based augmented reality (AR) games: https://education.mit.edu/portfolio_page/clevr/https://education.mit.edu/portfolio_page/taleblazer/
NASA's Spacecraft 3D is an augmented reality (AR) application that lets you learn about and interact with a variety of spacecraft that are used to explore our solar systemGoogle Translate is already a handy text and audio translation tool, and it gets even better with its augmented reality real-time visual translation features. All you need to do is hold up your smartphone camera and focus on the text, and Google Translate will provide real-time translations of words and phrases from a variety of languages. Users can download language packs, allowing for select offline translations when away from a cellular network.
Quiver - Formerly colAR Mix, this augmented reality app takes pictures that students colored and gives them life.
ZooKazam for Augmented Reality that can be used in the Science classroom. This is an easy to use app that has users printing out a "target" and then interacting w/ animals, dinosaurs, and safari animals in augmented reality. What's cool is the ability to not only take a photo or video of the animal in augmented reality, but interact w/ it by changing the elements (i.e. make it rain or snow) and more.
360 videos from CNN are short in length and include narration. This means you can pull the videos up on a web-browser connected to an interactive whiteboard and move the view side to side as students watch as a whole class. Alternatively you might load the video on smartphone
Ingress was Google’s first entry into the AR game market, and it’s easily one of the most creative AR applications we’ve ever seen. Basically, the game is an MMO that puts players into two factions — the Enlightened and the Resistance — and has them fight for control of virtual territories in a giant game of king of the hill. Players gain a material called Exotic Matter (XM) by simply walking around, and can use that XM to take over virtual portals. When three or more portals are taken over by either team, they gain control of the area between the portals. It’s a comprehensive strategy title at its core, heavily rooted in science fiction and bolstered by a continuous open narrative, while offering the most social experience of any AR app on our list.
Zoo-AR is an Augmented Reality application with a variety of animals and insects available for viewing in 3D. Simply download the correct markers and either print them out or view them on another device.
Epic MAR (Android )is a Mobile Augmented Reality Browser. It lets you detect objects or images (magazine ads, billboards, flyers, logos, movies, a chocolate bar, ads… etc) from the real world by scanning them with your phone camera, then the application displays digital contents related to them and you can interact with it on your mobile. You could try it on a 5 Dollar or a 10 Euro bill and see a video on how money is printed.
The CleverBooks app offers an innovative and exciting way for children aged 7–11 to learn geometry through visualization and interaction. The program is easily launched on an iOS or Android tablet or mobile phone. Accompanied by a collection of flashcards and printouts, the app lets children interact with 2D and 3D geometric shapes from all angles. They can see sides of 3D shapes unfold into 2D shapes, check main properties of 3D shapes, and explore variations of 2D shapes. In addition, children can use augmented reality to compare and identify objects in their environment with geometric shapes, develop spatial imagination by observing 3D and flat models, and learn properties of geometric 2D and 3D shapes.
Chromville Educational game app based on augmented reality. Join the 3D adventure and your paints come alive!
The Trickeye Museum is "one of a kind" AR painting gallery which combines art with high-end technology featuring AR (Augmented Reality) effect and 2D/3D illusions. Instead of merely viewing paintings as one would in a typical art gallery, visitors can interact with paintings using the newly developed Trickeye Camera app to make paintings come alive and become part of the artworks while recording it on video or taking pictures.
Wikitude allows you to see more than your eyes only could capture. Wikitude's "computer vision" is a bit like magic and connects you with the world in a completely new way. Use Wikitude as a tool to experience augmented reality content, campaigns, projects, promotions, games and so much more by simply scanning the things you see.experiences.
Fetch Lunch Rush: This fun PBS kids game app uses printable cards as augmented reality game pieces. In the game, kids help Ruff the Dog feed sushi to a movie crew by solving the math problems. Each game piece is a trigger image that comes to life when scanned. http://pbskids.org/fetch/games/hollywood/lunchrush.html
Libraries of Life - Learn about plants and animals with these augmented reality digital collection cards.
Creating AR Apps
AugThat: Developed by a former teacher, AugThat creates augmented reality content for classrooms, specifically targeting students that fall through the cracks and aren’t engaged. They create animated lessons in a variety of formats, including 360-degree virtual environments and 3-dimensional Aug That ( Android ) uses augmented reality to bring the classroom to life. Augmented reality is a view of the physical world that is enhanced through a mobile device with additional information or media like 3D images, videos, music, or messages. Aug That has a library of images that use AR to trigger video and 3D dimensional overlays aimed at K-12 learning. Teachers are also able to create their own augmented reality materials for classroom use. Aug That’s library is free, but teachers have to pay to use the product more extensively and to receive support.
Metaverse (IOS and Android) is an Augmented Reality drop and drag platform that makes it easy for teachers and students to create amazing interactive experiences without having to code.
HP Reveal Has to be seen to believe. Turns images into video and 3D. Watch video | Aurasma Lesson Ideas
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Waypoint Edu app that uses augmented reality to create a fun learning experience for students. Teachers are using this tool to bring their classroom outside and have students go on geocaches (scavenger hunts) to learn more about a subject. Best of all, a teacher can add questions to their geocache to create an authentic learning experience and gauge students understanding.
Plum's Creaturizer from PBS Kids is a free iOS and Android AR app that lets students create fun cartoon creatures then place them into outdoor settings through the use of augmented reality. The purpose of the app is to have students learn and show how the characteristics of an animal help it thrive in its environment. In the following video
AR Flashcards AR Flashcards make learning fun with the technology of Augmented Realit AR Flashcards are a new way to interact and make Flashcards more entertaining for toddlers and preschoolers. With AR Flashcards, learning is fun! When you point your device at the printed flashcard a beautifully rendered 3D animal will pop up on the screen. Tap the animal to hear the letter and animal name.
AR Studio free Mac download
Metaverse (IOS and Android) is an Augmented Reality drop and drag platform that makes it easy for teachers and students to create amazing interactive experiences without having to code.
HP Reveal Has to be seen to believe. Turns images into video and 3D. Watch video | Aurasma Lesson Ideas
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- How to Make an HP REVEAL Studio Account
- Creating AR Layers With HP Reveal
- Video tutorial for teachers
- 5 Ways to Use Augmented Reality App HP Reveal in Your Class
Waypoint Edu app that uses augmented reality to create a fun learning experience for students. Teachers are using this tool to bring their classroom outside and have students go on geocaches (scavenger hunts) to learn more about a subject. Best of all, a teacher can add questions to their geocache to create an authentic learning experience and gauge students understanding.
Plum's Creaturizer from PBS Kids is a free iOS and Android AR app that lets students create fun cartoon creatures then place them into outdoor settings through the use of augmented reality. The purpose of the app is to have students learn and show how the characteristics of an animal help it thrive in its environment. In the following video
AR Flashcards AR Flashcards make learning fun with the technology of Augmented Realit AR Flashcards are a new way to interact and make Flashcards more entertaining for toddlers and preschoolers. With AR Flashcards, learning is fun! When you point your device at the printed flashcard a beautifully rendered 3D animal will pop up on the screen. Tap the animal to hear the letter and animal name.
AR Studio free Mac download
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