Sept. 1: Live demonstration of Augmented Reality Sandbox

Geography will hold a live demo of the Augmented Reality Sandbox (ARS) from 2-4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1, in O’Kelly Room 125.

The Augmented Reality Sandbox is a real-time, interactive landscape visualization tool. Users construct a landscape in the sand and the ARS responds by drawing contour lines and colorizing elevation. You can also make it “rain” and then watch how runoff flows across your landscape.

The ARS was built over the summer by Bradley Rundquist, Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science, and two graduate students, Morgen Burke and Earl Klug, with support from the Department of Geography & GISc and North Dakota View.

We think that the ARS is a useful introductory Earth Science education tool which will appeal to K-12 students and science teachers who attend various STEM outreach activities in the region. We’re interested in hearing your thoughts. There is more information along with photos and a few videos at http://arts-sciences.und.edu/geography/nd-view/arsandbox.cfm but it’s better to see it in person.

We hope to see you there. All are welcome.

— Geography and Geographic Information Science