Breaking Your Device with a Strong Magnet
Magna AR depends upon the presence of magnetic fields. Typically, we like to begin by having users explore the terrestrial magnetic...
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- Jan 23, 2020
Presentation @ ASU: Futures of Education in AR and VR
View this presentation by Don Balanzat, of Arizona State University, on how he has explored fields with MAGNA AR. This work is funded by...
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- Jan 20, 2020
Presentation @ AAPTWM20: Visualizing the Invisible, Viewing 3-D Magnetic Fields with Your Smartphone
Click below to view a poster presented at the meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers Winter 2020 meeting in Orlando, FL....
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- Dec 22, 2019
Guest Blog: Research, Rabbits and Roller Coasters
Dr. Ann-Marie Pendrill Click the image below to see a guest post from one of our international advisors.
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- Nov 26, 2019
Presentation @ DroidConSF: ARCore - Visualizing the Invisible
View this presentation by Chrystian and Rebecca Vieyra on the use of ARCore to develop MAGNA AR. This work is funded by NSF Grant...
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- Nov 16, 2019
Workshop @ PhysCon20: Do You See What I See?
Developer Chrystian Vieyra and educator Rebecca Vieyra hosted a workshop with 200+ undergraduate physics majors at PhysCon. Students made...
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- Oct 3, 2019
Presentation @ NSF Cyberlearning PI Meeting
Chrystian Vieyra, MAGNA AR developer (third from the left), presents his work at the Cybearlearning PI Meeting of the National Science...
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- Sep 14, 2019
Supporting Conceptual Understandings of Fields: A Review of the Research
Now that we've made the technological advancements in our NSF Cyberlearning grant by publicly releasing Physics Toolbox AR Field...
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- Aug 9, 2019
Presentation @ iOS DevCampDC: ARKit - Visualizing the Invisible
View this presentation by Chrystian and Rebecca Vieyra on the use of ARKit to develop MAGNA AR. This work is funded by NSF Grant...
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- Jul 25, 2019
Presentation @ AAPTSM19/PERC19: Visualizing Magnetic Fields with AR
Rebecca and Chrystian Vieyra demonstrated MAGNA AR as part of an interactive session at the Physics Education Research Conference 2019....
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- Jul 4, 2019
Flat-Earthers at Heart: Challenging Naive Ideas about Magnetic Fields
Now that we've made the technological advancements in our Cyberlearning grant, it is time for us to turn to the use of our app as a...
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- Jun 25, 2019
Stepping into a New Dimension: Using Quaternions to See the Invisible
Our previous project blogs documented some of the advancements we have made in creating an AR-based magnetic field visualizer for...
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- Feb 1, 2019
Visualizing Magnetic Fields in 3-D
Magnetic (and electric) fields are often challenging to teach and understand because they exist in three dimensions. Typical introductory...
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- Dec 17, 2018
Building an AR Magnetic Field Visualizer—Vision and Challenges
In our previous post, we provided a rationale for why we believe using personal mobile devices (PMDs) to visualize real magnetic fields...
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- Dec 16, 2018
Building an AR Magnetic Field Visualizer—Rationale
Technology gives humans the opportunity to perceive physical attributes of the world that are completely invisible. Magnetic fields, for...
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- Oct 20, 2018
ARCore and ARKit Feature Sets Compared to Hamsters and DaVinci: How they see the world
In the previous entry of this blog series, we looked into the market share of each AR platform, device compatibility, and perceived...
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- Sep 23, 2018
Comparing Google ARCore and Apple ARKit
Choosing which platform to use to pursue exploratory work in augmented reality (AR) visualization techniques is critical. As many mobile...
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- Jul 19, 2018
NSF Awards $383K for Research on Data Visualization with Physics Toolbox
The National Science Foundation (NSF), one of the worldwide leaders in science and science education funding, has awarded $382,689 to the...
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