AR/VR

Lesson 2
U N D E R S TA N D I N G
EXTENDED REALITY
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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 google.com 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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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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Augmented Reality

Few common examples of AR around us are

Snapchat and Instagram Online conference and meetings

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Augmented Reality

Few common examples of AR around us are

Google Maps Sports

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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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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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Virtual Reality

Few common examples of VR around us are

Marketing

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Virtual Reality

Few common examples of VR around us are

Gaming

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Virtual Reality

Few common examples of VR around us are

Travel

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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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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 -
https://emojiscavengerhunt.wi
thgoogle.com/

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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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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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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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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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