Inspiration
Ever since the pandemic hit, we humans have accustomed to our mundane work-life and activities, thus we were inspired to bring you our hack VirtuLabs. We have noticed that education suffered a lag in these 2-3 years due to the pandemic. Though, our dedicated and hard-working teachers left no stone unturned to teach their students even in these times.
What it does
I am trying to help our teachers by gifting them an asset in form of VirtuLabs. It is our way of combining visualization made possible through Augmented Reality(AR) and education. It can act as a tool for teachers in online classes to improve interaction, which is somewhat lost in virtual mediums. Students learn anytime, anywhere at the mere click of a button, and we have been introduced by our team to supplement laboratory education in this covid-stricken era. It is known to us that there is n number of online simulators available today but they somehow lack the real-life experience, which we have tried to restore in our app.
How we built it
It is built using Unity 3d, Vuforia and AR Foundation.
Challenges we ran into
Deciding on the components as such was easy, but implementing them was not a cakewalk. I brainstormed for various hours figuring out the plugins that were to be used. A hell lot of time was invested in fixing the bugs in our code as the experimental procedure was based on it. Ihad to make sure if the user violates the order of the experiment, it would show an error then and there and the experiment has to be restarted. And construct a system where the progress of children could be monitored by their teachers virtually was also challenging. But we are glad we managed to finish and put up all the components in the end.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
In the end whole code worked and it was able to help users carry out various experiments.
What we learned
I learned how to use Unity3D and Vuforia for AR app development.
What's next for VirtuLabs
Next I will try to make VirtuLabs a voice controlled app.
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