AR.M

AR.M| Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History

Awards & Nominations

AR.M has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History

NASA’s activities in space have brought new knowledge of the Earth, inspiring new ways of thinking about humanity and the planet. However, many people aren’t aware that NASA studies the Earth in addition to other planets. Your challenge is to tell stories of NASA’s Earth science enterprise using interactive digital tools. This will test your technical skills and your ability to think like a historian or educator.

Summary

AR.M stands for Augmented Reality for Mission To Planet Earth: A Digital History, wherein this case, we use AR to showcase one of many NASA's Satellites, CloudSat, to showcase what its function and what it does for the Planet Earth, in line with this particular challenge.We use Web-Based AR, where you only need to scan a QR Code and the AR Code in order to bring it to life, instead of needing to download and app.

How I Addressed This Challenge

We built a Web-Based AR for one of NASA's Satellites from JPL, the CloudSat.

We aim to raise awareness on what NASA does for the earth, and one the best ways to do it in a very catchy and cool way, Augmented Reality.

By scanning the QR code and the AR Code, you are able to see CloudSat in 3D with an Audio describing the Satellite, and a couple of videos playing showing what CloudSat can do. We also show a show description on what the CloudSat does, and its function.

You are also able to take a photo and share it to your friends via social media! From there anyone can share the knowledge form what they learnt. All you need is the A3 Poster where you can scan it, anywhere from your school or office building, and your smartphone, to scan the QR Code in order to see the 3D model.

How I Developed This Project

I have done multiple projects with regards to Augmented Reality and over time, saw its potential it has to help educate people while giving the learner a fun and memorable experience, which helps with memory retention.

My approach was that we could print a A3/A4 paper in order to make an exhibition in a school, building, workplace etc. And since literally everyone has a Smartphone, all you need to do is scan it and let it come to life!

I used Blender, Mixer, Canva, XR+. Blender is the editing the 3D Objects, as I needed to reduce the Polygons in order to make it load faster in Web AR, Mixer to change the file, from stl to obj, in order for it to be used. Canva to design the A3/A4 poster and XR+ to code and enable the Web AR. XR+ is like Vuforia where it is the software for the Web AR to work.

We had a couple of breakthroughs when making this, like learning how to texture in blender, (spent a good three hours on this), learning to reduce the polygons on an object and using Mixer to change the files,

How I Used Space Agency Data in This Project

I used 3D models from NASA's 3D Archive, where it is used for the 3D model, NASA's JPL Video about Cloud Sat from JPL's YouTube channel. We got the videos about CloudSat working from NASA's YouTube Channel, NASA's JPL Website for reference to find out more.

Project Demo

Video Demo : https://youtu.be/G_JKmN2exTY

A3 Print Out you can download to try : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ensth3ldM6FBoANx1s4enWr76lGTpbon/view?usp=sharing

Data & Resources

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models#D

https://archive.org/details/nasaaudiocollection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbiWN9OR1bE&t=4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBEEy3XHHns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS3CY5td4RE

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/cloudsat/

Judging

This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.