Simulating educational physical experiments in augmented reality

ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008 Educators Programme, SIGGRAPH Asia'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kaufmann, Hannes ^a   Meyer, Bernd ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Augmented reality; Mechanics; Physics education; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATIONS; CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; GAMING MARKETS; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; INNOVATIVE TEACHING; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICS EDUCATION; PHYSICS ENGINE; REAL TIME; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL WORLD;

AUGMENTED REALITY; EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MECHANICS;

EID: 67650691288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1507713.1507717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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