Teaching Augmented Reality in Practice: Tools, Workshops and Students’ Projects

Abstract

Increasing popularity of Augmented Reality (AR) and easy access to new software for creating projects using this technology leads to considerations how to integrate it with the students’ assignments/projects and encourages us to check potential of it in the academic world. The first part of this paper gives a brief description of the AR technology, requirements needed for using AR, and the preparation process. The second part presents various editors, applications, tools and developing environments for teaching AR, useful in IT and art areas. It focuses on projects prepared by the students of Computer Science and New Media Art in the Polish-Japanese Information Technology, and also on projects created during AR workshops. The main goal of this paper is to present ideas and suggestions concerning applying AR technology to students’ works based on the experience of the author, and final results are also shown.