AR/VR
Lesson 2
U N D E R S TA N D I N G
EXTENDED REALITY
Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Augmented Reality
• Activity - World in my phone
• Now you can use Google search to place 3D digital
objects right in your own space.
• On your Android phone, go to [Link] or open the
Google app.
• 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 View in your
space.
• Follow the on-screen instructions.
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Augmented Reality
• Augmented Reality (AR) overlays digital content and
information on our physical world - as if it is there
with you, in your space.
• It opens new ways to assist us throughout the day
by letting us experience digital content in a similar
way we experience the world.
• Watch this video about the sensational game
Pokemon Go as an example of augmented reality!
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Augmented Reality
Few common examples of AR around us are
Snapchat and Instagram Online conference and meetings
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Augmented Reality
Few common examples of AR around us are
Google Maps Sports
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Virtual Reality
• Activity - World in my phone
• Do you believe in ghosts?
Are you ready to get
spooked?
• Prepare to get scared,
but don't be afraid,
because
it is only virtual.
• Try to look around as you
move about in this video.
• (Haunted Mansion)
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality, or VR, VR places the user In VR, we can tour
is the use of computer inside the virtual various places and
technology to create environment to experience changing
a completely simulated give an immersive viewpoints and
environment which can experience. perspectives.
be explored in 360
degrees.
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Virtual Reality
Few common examples of VR around us are
Marketing
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1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Virtual Reality
Few common examples of VR around us are
Gaming
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1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
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Virtual Reality
Few common examples of VR around us are
Travel
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Mixed Reality
• Mixed reality merges the real world and digital
elements
• It allows the user to interact with both the worlds.
• It provides the ability to have one foot (or hand)
in the real world, and the other in an imaginary
place.
• Here are a few examples of MR
• Infinite Office
• Envisioning the Future with Windows Mixed
Reality
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Tools
• Activity - Emoji Scavenger
Hunt
• This is a game based on
Computer Vision.
• Computer initiates the game
by showing an emoji.
• Show a similar object to the
camera, and the computer
will guess what is being
show.
• Start playing -
[Link]
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Tools
Hardware Software
• Display • 3D modeling and graphics
• Head Mounted Displays • Computer Vision
• Cameras • Software Development Kits
• Motion Trackers • Computer Programming
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Activity: Through the eyes of
a Computer
• Do you know how computers see images? Let’s do this simple activity to understand how
computers convert images to numbers and see our real world!
• You can use the Encoding Key to convert images into a set of numbers.
A. Eye - 0 A. Leg - 5
B. Short Ear/Long Ear - 1’/1’’ B. Arm - 6
C. Mouth - 2 C. Short Tail/Long Tail - 7’/7’’
D. Short Beak/Long Beak - 3’/3’’ D. Sting - 8
E. Wing - 4 E. Gills - 9
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Activity: Through the eyes of
a Computer
This image of a dog can also be The image of a kangaroo can be
represented by the code - 1’001’27’5555 represented by the code - 1’’1’’0027’’6655
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Level Level
1 | Digital
1 | AR/VR
Citizenship
Activity: Through the eyes of
a Computer
• Choose a partner to perform the activity with you. One partner will become A and
Steps to the other will be B.
do the • Choose 5 images - one each of an animal, a bird, a fish, a reptile, and an insect.
activity:
• Partner A will
• Label images randomly as Image (i), Image (ii), Image (iii), Image (iv),
Image(v).
• Encode them into numbers using the encoding key.
• Share the codes for 5 images with partner B.
• Partner B will
• Decode the codes received from partner A using the Encoding Key.
• Try to identify which photo from Image (i) to Image (v) is of an animal,
a bird, a fish, a reptile, and an insect.
• Write your answers on a piece of paper
• The team with the most correct answers wins!
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