Augmented Reality for preschoolers: an experience around Natural Sciences educational contents

Early education is a key element for the future success of students in the education system. This work analyzes the feasibility of using augmented reality contents with preschool students (four and five years old) as a tool for improving their learning process. A quasi experimental design based on a nonequivalent groups posttest-only design was used. A didactic unit has been developed around the topic “animals” by the participant teachers. The control group followed all the didactic activities defined in the developed didactic materials, while the experimental group was provided in addition with some augmented reality contents. Results show improved learning outcomes in the experimental group with respect to the control group.

Augmented and Virtual Reality techniques for footwear

The use of 3D imaging techniques has been early adopted in the footwear industry. In particular, 3D imaging could be used to aid commerce and improve the quality and sales of shoes. Footwear customization is an added value aimed not only to improve product quality, but also consumer comfort. Moreover, customisation implies a new business model that avoids the competition of mass production coming from new manufacturers settled mainly in Asian countries. However, footwear customisation implies a significant effort at different levels. In manufacturing, rapid and virtual prototyping is required; indeed the prototype is intended to become the final product. The whole design procedure must be validated using exclusively virtual techniques to ensure the feasibility of this process, since physical prototypes should be avoided. With regard to commerce, it would be desirable for the consumer to choose any model of shoes from a large 3D database and be able to try them on looking at a magic mirror. This would probably reduce costs and increase sales, since shops would not require storing every shoe model and the process of trying several models on would be easier and faster for the consumer. In this paper, new advances in 3D techniques coming from experience in cinema, TV and games are successfully applied to footwear. Firstly, the characteristics of a high-quality stereoscopic vision system for footwear are presented. Secondly, a system for the interaction with virtual footwear models based on 3D gloves is detailed. Finally, an augmented reality system (magic mirror) is presented, which is implemented with low-cost computational elements that allow a hypothetical customer to check in real time the goodness of a given virtual footwear model from an aesthetical point of view.

A synopsis of naturall philosophy according to the method of the ancients, but improved & augmented with the notions of later philosophers : manuscript, 1677-1679

Possibly autograph, dated at end of volume: Finitu[m] mart: 14, 1678/9. Imperfect copy with title page missing; supplied from a MS copy, dated 29 March 1680, now in the Bodleian Library.

Entwicklung einer GPS gestutzten Augmented Reality Anwendung mithilfe des Wikitude SDK

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Augmented significance routines for Illiac IV /

Includes bibliographies (p. 18).

Ounce, dice, trice /

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

The angling library formed by the late Dean Sage ... ; inherited and augmented by his son, the present owner Dean Sage ... ; public auction sale by his order, April 9 and 10 at 2 p.m.

"Sale number 364 ..." -- added t.p.

Don Miguel Francisco de Medina y Contreras, Conde de Medina y Contreras, del Consejo de Hazienda de su Magestad, ... Superintendente General de Rentas Reales de esta Ciudad de Valladolid ... hago saber à la Justicia de [espacio en blanco] que se me ha remitido el Despacho del tenor siguiente. Don Phelipe ... Rey de Castilla ... sabed que ... en diez y siete de junio del año de mil setecientos y veinte y ocho se expidiò la provision que dice assi ... sabed que Joseph Antonio Diaz Tamayo, en nombre del Real Prothomedicato ... nos hizo relacion ... de los graves perjuicios que se seguian à la salud publica de tolerar ... á muchas personas exercer la facultad de medicina ...

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Oficio de difuntos, que la Real y Apostolica Congregacion del Santisimo Christo de la Agonia, dice en su Real Capilla, sita en la Casa Profesa de los Padres Agonizantes de Madrid.

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Lucio Fauno. Della antichita della citta di Roma, raccolte e scritte da m. Lucio Fauno con somma breuità, & ordine, con quanto gli Antichi o Moderni scritti ne hanno libri V. Reuisti hora, e corretti dal medesimo autore in molti luoghi, con aggiungerui per tutto infinite cose degne, e con un compendio di Roma Antica nel fine, doue con somma breuita si uede quanto in tutti questi libri si dice.

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Septenario angelico, en que se da noticia de siete axcelentissimos angeles de quienes dice el euangelista San Juan ... /

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Respuesta, que dá ... Fray Joseph Torrubia ... à un Sugeto Literato de Espan?a, sobre la legitimidad del Libro de Oración y Meditacion de San Pedro de Alcantara, que ahora ... Fr. Joseph Pinedo ... dice ser obra del venerable padre Fray Luis de Granada /

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A record of the Hart family of Philadelphia : with a genealogy of the family, from its first settlement in America ; augmented by notes of the collateral branches, 1735-1920 /

Reproduced from typescript.

The Cambrian traveller's guide, in every direction; containing remarks made during many excursions, in the principality of Wales, and bordering districts, augmented by extracts from the best writers.

Preface signed: George Nicholson.