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What is Augmented REality
This is an app that you'd expect to see at Six Flags over Georgia.
Imagine a student doing a piece of art work with an active imagination and an even more active hand. When the child creates the piece of art, you look at it and have no idea what it is...No one does, except the kid.
Imagine pointing an IPad at the art and seeing a video magically appears giving you all the information you wanted about the art.
Imagine a student doing a piece of art work with an active imagination and an even more active hand. When the child creates the piece of art, you look at it and have no idea what it is...No one does, except the kid.
Imagine pointing an IPad at the art and seeing a video magically appears giving you all the information you wanted about the art.
WElcome to aurasma
In the world of Virtual Reality, the real world is replaced with an artificial environment. In contrast, Aurasma's Augmented Reality enhances your view of the real world by layering it with associated digital information. It uses your iPad's camera to view the immediate environment and displays images and video when it sees a "trigger" object it recognizes. It's similar to a QR code, but without the strange looking black and white Rorschach looking square.
This has been used in the travel industry, real estate market, and advertising industry to relay information and product demonstrations. In the art field, imagine a video of matisse "drawing with scissors" when you place the video in front of one of his paintings. Imagine watching a video of a student play the piano when you put it in front of sheet music or a video of child painting when the a phone is placed in front of a finished project at back to school. The possibilities are endless.
We talk about the importance of "depth" in education. Augmented reality offers many ways for students to create media and taking control into enriching their own learning.
This has been used in the travel industry, real estate market, and advertising industry to relay information and product demonstrations. In the art field, imagine a video of matisse "drawing with scissors" when you place the video in front of one of his paintings. Imagine watching a video of a student play the piano when you put it in front of sheet music or a video of child painting when the a phone is placed in front of a finished project at back to school. The possibilities are endless.
We talk about the importance of "depth" in education. Augmented reality offers many ways for students to create media and taking control into enriching their own learning.
A. Create Your Content
- Create video.
- Make sure that it's designed to add depth and important detail to the image being viewed.
- Trigger" image
- This is the image that causes the media to play when you point your device at it. Aurasma requires images with a certain amount of detail and color. Avoid text or simple line art images. I've often created a "plaque" that sits next to an exhibit and acts as the trigger image.
- You'll link the trigger image and media by creating an "aura".
- We'll look at how to create auras below.
B. Create an Aurasma Account and Channel
If you are just using a single device then skip this step - you don't need to create an Aurasma channel. You're able to specify the media and trigger image right within Aurasma on the device itself. If however you want to create a series of auras and invite people to view them on any device then I recommend creating an Aurasma channel for your class as follows:
- Create an account:
- You can create your Aurasma account right within the Aurasma app itself or by going to studio.aurasma.com in any desktop or mobile web browser.
- Create a channel:
- Log into your account at studio.aurasma.com and click on the Channels option in the menus on the right of the screen.
- You can set your channel to public or private.
- If it's public then anyone can subscribe to the channel and view your auras.
- The alternative is to create a private channel.
- Save the channel and you'll notice a "Link to Subscribe" button.
- Click the button, copy the link and share it via email.
- Anyone with the Aurasma app can click on the link and be given access to the content in your channel.
You can set your channel to Private and email the link to subscribe
C. Create Auras
As mentioned above, an aura is the link between a trigger image and video. You can create your auras in two ways:
- On your device:
- Create the aura on your device. Tap the + sign in Aurasma and follow the prompts. The video and trigger image will need to be on the same device. If you've created a channel as specified in step B above then make sure to tap the option to add the aura to a channel. It will be uploaded to your account and channel online.
- On the Aurasma website:
- Log into your account at studio.aurasma.com.
- Click on Overlays in the large menu on the right and upload all your videos.
- Click on Trigger Images in the large menu on the right and upload all the associated images.
- Once that's done, click on Auras in the large menu on the right and create auras for each link between a trigger image and the video it will play.
Invite your guests via email. Tell them to download the Aurasma app and give them the link to subscribe to your channel ... then have the students act as "museum guides" that show your visitors how to use the app.
- Click on Overlays in the large menu on the right and upload all your videos.
- Click on Trigger Images in the large menu on the right and upload all the associated images.
- Once that's done, click on Auras in the large menu on the right and create auras for each link between a trigger image and the video it will play.
Did you like aurasma?
If so, you might be interested in this other augmented reality app
colar
Interested in learning more about
Augmented reality?
Kathy Schrock
has a tremendous amount of resources here
Suggested uses for Aurasma
I'M SURE YOU'LL COME UP WITH LOTS OF IDEAS OF YOUR OWN. USING THE AURASMA APP, HERE'S THE STEPS TO FOLLOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN AUGMENTED REALITY PROJECT.
MoviesMake IMovie trailers with video clips of the kids doing work and use them as auras.
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artist statementsHave your students talk about what they did on the project.
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Art HistoryHave the students do write biographies about famous artists.
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Messages to parents
Back to school
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Thanksgiving
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Winter greetings |
valentines
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information gathering
Room orientation
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Geo-caching type
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