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Augmented Reality (AR)


Augmented Reality (AR)

Looking at a picture of an object is our smartphones that seems rising (like the pictures below) and able to be rotated three sixty degree is interesting , isn't it? To have this, it require a technology that is called as augmented reality (AR). 'augment' means to increase or to add to the existing reality.

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AR basically a technology that superimposes an image that is generated from computer on the view of the real world, then producing a composite view. It is kind of an interactive digital experience of the real object that is being 'augmented'. AR is used in smartphones apps which employ the phone's camera in order to show the real world in front of us.


Image result for IKEA AR'If you ever heard or play POKEMON GO, you had actually came across the AR. AR is something like we give a life to a non-living object. The other famous example of AR application is the IKEA apps. By using this app, customers are able to select their desired furniture then try to fit it in their empty home spaces. The object really looks like real !!!After that, they can make decision whether to buy it or not, just through online purchases! 

My selected ZAPCODE
To design AR, we need to use a course-ware. Luckily, I have experienced constructing and applying a simple AR in my Physics Technology & Innovation class conducted by Dr NurulHuda. We go to zapworks in order to create our own AR, by using the free trial version. From here, we selected our zapcode from widget to be placed on the screen of our created AR version. The zapcode is basically works like QR code.

Meanwhile, at our smartphones, we have to download zappar from the apps store. The make everything works, we open zappar apps in our smartphones, then we scan the zapcode at our created AR, hence the objects/video that we have set up will rise on the screen of our phones.

It is very interesting although it is not that easy to create one 😁. I believe we can create a better version with further exploration at zapworks!
Thank you

Ref: https://www.michiganradio.org/post/michigan-startup-uses-augmented-reality-give-pediatric-patients-moments-escape-and-joy

Ummi Atiah Mohamad
MEd Physics
UPSI

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