Conference,
Teaching Physics Using Equidistant AR/VR-Projections
(October 2019)
DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3369199.3369242
Abstract
Modern augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies offer us new educational opportunities. They possess the immense untapped resources for significant improvements of the physics education. The transformation of the learning scene (or arena) to the abstract symbolic environment leads to the emergence of the new views at teaching. The AR/VR-glasses allow us to do this, changing, supplementing and augmenting the picture of the physical world around the observer (teacher or student) and even completely replacing it. The paper deals with the teaching experience of the equidistant (spherical) projection use in the physics classes. It describes the list of useful tools to facilitate the perception of AR/VR 360-panoramas, recommendations for the practical use, the students' opinion about this technology. It also presents the description of equidistant panoramic slides that are already available, tested in the practice, and ready for physics teaching. Here we consider the place of equidistant AR/VR-projections in the educational process, characteristics of the educationally tested AR/VR-devices, the most effective techniques of their use.
