Photo Booth & Action Movie
Just the other day I noted in a reply that a simple example of AR can be found on most computers now. PC and Mac have applications like Photo Booth (Mac) that can add AR to your pictures. My kids love taking pictures of themselves and distorting their face. I took this pictures just now in my living room:
My kids and I also spent a lot of time this summer “blowing” things up using the app Action Movie on my iPhone. I wasn’t able to load a video, but you can check out the app. It sends in missiles or rocks, or drops a van on whatever it is that you are filming. I even used it in a fun video for my kids to wrap up their sports highlights from last year.
Neither of the examples I have shown do much educationally as they are. However, I have had many students use similar pictures or videos in projects that they have submitted. So mixed with other experiences there can be educational value here.
Ken
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visramn 9:13 pm on October 19, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Great example of how we use AR and do not even realize it. Although, your kids are just playing around they are still gaining a skill. Just as you mentioned your students can use what they create and incorporate it into their projects. Therefore, it may not be a direct tool for learning but it can definitely used as an assisting tool.
Nureen
Peggy Lawson 7:47 pm on October 20, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Your picture Ken really reminds me of blue screen, a technique used for quite some time in TV/Movies – the weatherman, for example, where it’s now realitively easy to put a second scene, or video, into the background. The actor stands in front of a green or blue screen – a very distincitve blue or green colour – and the computer is able to mat that colour and lay a second video layer that shows through. I’ve had my high school students create such videos with relative ease. Perhaps that what AR primarily is (but on a more high-tech level)?
Peggy
jenbarker 4:29 pm on October 21, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I think there is a place for AR in our schools. The potential to use AR in projects where they can bring to life places and people from the past and future is amazing. The use of AR promotes many of the 21st Century skills students need such as creativity and innovation, collaboration, communication, media literacy and ICT skills.