{"id":2237,"date":"2020-06-03T10:25:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:25:56","slug":"scavenger-hunt-meets-augmented-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/03\/scavenger-hunt-meets-augmented-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Scavenger Hunt meets Augmented Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came across this AR app while reading an article on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-05-28-stay-active-at-home-with-these-6-fun-ar-vr-apps\" target=\"_blank\">EdSurge<\/a>. Scavengar offers a fun game that can be used in Education. You can complete Scavengar&#8217;s made by other people or create your own right on your mobile device. I could see myself creating a scavengar hunt for Lab Safety and important items around the classroom to allow students to get familiar with the space. What is cool is the ability to create a hunt that can be done anywhere or at a specific geolocation. I suggest downloading the app and giving a random hunt a try to get the feel for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Downsides: it appears to only be available for iPhone and it is difficult to search for a specific hunt that isn&#8217;t geolocation. In this article Jamie Donnally created a hunt for readers to try and the only way I was able to find it was to scroll through the discover page, this can be problematic when more hunts are shared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-05-28-stay-active-at-home-with-these-6-fun-ar-vr-apps\">https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-05-28-stay-active-at-home-with-these-6-fun-ar-vr-apps<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TPiG3Xrp9OY\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this AR app while reading an article on EdSurge. Scavengar offers a fun game that can be used in Education. You can&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/03\/scavenger-hunt-meets-augmented-reality\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scavenger Hunt meets Augmented Reality<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobileeducation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}