Students have created AR-application that can "revive" the University as a part of their project work.
Augmented reality (AR) is the result of inserting any sensory data into the field of perception in order to augment information about the environment and to improve the perception of information.
The purpose of the application "NSTU Live" is to tell the University's history and to make students' life more interactive.
"It's simple. We look at a real fragment or place through a smartphone camera, and then virtual objects appear on the screen and you can interact with them in different ways: twist, press and so on,"- says the project manager Ivan Tomilov, the head of the Department of Automated Control System.
This application will be bound to NETI's specific locations. At the moment a user comes to a certain place, the smartphone's screen will display a virtual object which can be anything: an image, text message, animation, video or 3D object.
"Now the application works with the exposition in the hall of the main building. So, one can see there: "Did you know, that NETI became NSTU in 1992?" On the first floor, the gallery of rectors' pictures will be augmented with the information about their regalia and achievements. We have a mosaic with the portrait of Professor Lyshchinsky in the passage to the 5th educational building. It will contain the text with his quotation: "We learn by teaching" and animation - he winks his eye'', says Ivan Tomilov about the animation.
"NSTU Live " is installed on a smartphone and looks exactly like the "Camera" application, but when you focus it at the exposition, it will display virtual objects.
By the end of the year, the developers plan to launch the application in Google Play. The application will be systematically updated and supplemented with new content.