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Augmented Reality - Geology Sandbox 2
Lunch Lehre am 5. Februar 2020 (unfortunaltely only in German)
Augmented Reality (AR) Sandboxes are a great tool for science outreach and teaching due to their intuitive and interaction-enhancing operation. Recently AR Sandboxes are becoming increasingly popular as interactive exhibition pieces, teaching aids and toys.
AR Sandboxes consist of a box of sand that can be freely sculpted by hand. The topography of the sand is constantly scanned with a depth camera and a computed image is projected back onto the sand surface, augmenting the sandbox with digital information.
However, most of these common AR Sandboxes are limited to the visualization of topography with contour lines and colors, as well as water simulations on the digital terrain surface. The potential for AR Sandboxes for geoscience education, and especially for teaching structural geology, remains largely untapped.
For this reason, we have developed open_AR_Sandbox, an augmented reality sandbox designed specifically for the use in geoscience education. In addition to the visualization of topography it can display geologic subsurface information such as the outcropping lithology, creating a dynamic and interactive geological map. The relations of subsurface structures, topography and outcrop can be explored in a playful and comprehensible way.
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