May 06 2012

Scratch-based AR programming environment released

The AR SPOT system is now available for public download. AR SPOT is an augmented-reality authoring environment for children. An extension of MIT’s Scratch project, this environment allows children to use drag-and-drop programming to create experiences mixing real and virtual elements. Children can display virtual objects on a real-world scene observed through a video camera, and they can control the virtual world through interactions between physical objects. This project aims to expand the range of creative experiences for young authors, by presenting AR technology in ways appropriate for this audience.

See the project page for details and download link: https://github.blairmacintyre.me/site-archive/ael-2015/research/arspot/

Iulian Radu

Iulian is pursuing a PhD in Human Centered Computing within the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech. His research is focused on the design of augmented reality (AR) applications for elementary-school children. He is specifically interested in using developmental psychology to design age-appropriate AR applications that match, as well as improve, children’s cognitive and motor abilities.
Currently he is involved in designing and evaluating AR games for elementary-school children. His previous projects include AR Spot (an AR authoring environment based on Scratch), Puppy Plus (an AR game for teaching elementary mathematics), and Thought Play (an AR environment for constructing immersive mind-maps).

1 comment

    • German Beajarano on March 13, 2014 at 4:09 pm
    • #

    Running Scratch 1.2.1 from the download file called arSpotDistribution_2012Mar. Getting error every time while try to change the background.

    Sorry but the VM has crashed.
    Exception code. C000005
    Exception address: 00416990
    Current byte code: 44
    Primitive index: 0

    It creates a dump file every time it crashed.

    Please help

Comments have been disabled.

Switch to mobile version