AUGMENTED REALITY IN EDUCATION LET’S MAKE LEARNING FUN!!
Kalyanaraman Subramanian Director – Marketing & BD SMACAR SOLUTIONS
AUGMENTED REALITY • Augmented reality (AR) is the disruptive force in the market one of the emerging technology in the field of displays that would make a mark in the near future. • The global augmented reality market in 2014 was valued at USD 1.72 Billion and is expected to reach USD 56.8 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 79.61% between 2015 and 2020. • Very much useful in the field of Entertainment, Education, ECommerce, Tourism, Retail, Real Estate Construction etc.,
SMACAR • Early Stage Tech start-up founded in June 2016 focusing on SMAC and AR based solutions. • Aims to popularize and enable, affordable and easy to implement AR solutions for day to day personal and organizational applications. • Plans to extend its services to provide support for Internet of Things (IoT) • Pioneers in implementing Self Service AR platform in India
AUGMENTED REALITY FOR EDUCATION
• Images and videos comes live from a static object • Augmented reality in the elementary class room makes learning fun • Teacher records video of a particular portion in the text book and on scanning that portion using mobile or tablet students can learn even from home
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Augmented Reality in Education examples are • Augment each alphabet with related words i.e.., A for Apple • When the kid scans the letter ‘A’ using the augmented reality app, apple will come on top of the letter
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Some more Augmented Reality in Education examples are • For an engineering class, prior to physical assembly of circuit, they can be assembled in paper, and when scanned with the app get the result like green light for perfect assembly or red light for wrong assembly • Augment a particular portion of the chapter which is given as homework and scan the marker given there if there is any doubt to see the teacher coming live and explaining in detail
AUGMENTED REALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION •
Geometrical and mathematical problems in higher education can be solved by using Augmented reality in higher education
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Links to various research papers related to particular subject can be created
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YouTube videos on relevant contents can be created to facilitate better understanding of the subject
BENEFITS OF AUGMENTED REALITY IN EDUCATION
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Augmented reality helps in quick learning
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Visual is more powerful than words and hence AR improves memory
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Will be able to keep the students engaged for the whole time
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Burden on parents with regard to homework is reduced
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Critical areas of a subject can be augmented with video
AUGMENTED REALITY APPS FOR KIDS
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There are plenty of augmented reality apps for kids
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Smacar has brought out an app called Planet finder
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Aurasma is one such app for kids
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AR apps for kids can have games linked with education
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Can even make lion roar or create visual and sensory linking
Contact
Kalyanaraman Subramanian (Kalyan) HP:+91-9495854409 Email :kalyanaraman.s@smacarsolutions.com
THANK YOU!!!