Augmented Reality Sandbox will Blow Your Mind!
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Craig Beals unveils his latest build - a sandbox like no other! The white sand acts as a projector screen and a topographic map image is projected on the surface. An XBOX Kinect is positioned to read the contours of the sand and draw new topographic lines according to how the sand is moved. This augmented reality sandbox will blow your mind!
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This video is only for entertainment purposes. If you rely on the information outlined in this video, you assume responsibility for the results. As with any experiment, proceed at your own risk.
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The AR Sandbox concept, design and programs were developed at the University of California - Davis. I give them full credit and I appreciate them making the software and information available so I could build one for my school. arsandbox.ucda...
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Glad someone found a use for the Kinect
Tbh that gadget is the only thing that went from consumer back to commercial use, can't count how many technologies are still using Kinect right now.
@@nabkawe a ton of hospitals use it.
😂😂😂
kinnect:
I was murdered!
I remember going to the grad shows of a few local "new media" programs early last decade. I want to say half the projects used kinects, the other half used Arduinos.
A literal topographical sandbox, wow! That is so trippy.
David -flamingsword1 technology is fantastic, isn't it?!
@@BealsScienceI’ve seen one of these and messed with it it’s kinda cool but it was made out of litter or smth.
@@Wandkater like kitty litter?!
@@BealsScience yes
Cool! I haven’t seen that used before.
We had one in the small natural history museum at a college where I taught. It was great for illustrating concepts about surfaces and vectors in multivariable calculus too!
I never thought of that as an application! How cool!
@@BealsScienceI was thinking this has educational potential all the way from kindergarten to undergraduate.
I'm a scout leader... I want to make one of these to teach mapping and navigation - specifically how to show geographic features using 2D.
Col, spur, ridge, valley, hillside, mountainside.... the list goes on.
My only concern is what to do with it when not in use...add a lid for use as table?
@@liammhodonohue I agree - this is a great project for scouts! To answer your question about what to do with it when not in use? I have a piece of plywood that fits over the top and I use it as a weight table for my balances in my chemistry lab at school! It is a perfect height for a table!
4:29 Experienced this at Buffalo Museum of Science. Our two littles seemed to enjoy this exhibit most. I know I surely did 🌏🌍
They are really quite amazing to play with!
This is quite honestly one of the coolest things I’ve seen in my life
Thank you!
I didn’t develop it, just shared instructions for making it.
yes its awesome the army uses it
You could create a video game map in the sand, scan that map and then Paste the scan as terrain for the game. And the best thing about that is:
It’s very fast and easy to make. And beautiful
Edit: And it is easily customisable
My school just made one... Beautiful
awesome! How did it turn out?!
@@BealsScience It turned out great. I was the xbox
how much did it cost by chance? I would like to make this for my work
This is amazing !!!! Im amazed at thw thing we as humans can invent and this seems like a great mixture of education and fun . its awesome .
I agree! The folks at UC Davis came up with something very special (and simple) with this project!
Thanks for watching!
Building something that baffles people when you explain it and then having them all go "OOOOOH! RAD. I want to play with that!" is just an amazing feeling. I've built a few projects that when explained sounded absolutely nuts or incomprehensible but once finished were instant hits with friends... but never this kind of hit. :P I want to play with that...
My school got one of these the other day!! So excited for my geology class to use it!!
I think you are going to love it!
This is mind-boggling cool!!! I'm gonna see if I can suggest this to my school.
Get your school on board to build one! You won’t be disappointed!!
awesome! thank you
Thank you!
Very useful for many applications.
👍
Very nice project. It looks awesome. : )
Thank you very much!
This is really awesome.
Thank you!
And thanks for watching!
playing with sand on a whole new level^^
dude this is insane!!
+Sam Bevins its crazy isn't it! We've been having a blast playing in the sand!
Hello Craig. Thank you for posting your video of the augmented reality sandbox. Last summer, I built one for my 5th-grade classroom. It works great and kids are learning many lessons from it. I recently added a bulk bag of small fossils so they can use it as a dino dig as well. Just an idea for you!
Love the fossil idea!
Thank you!
By far the coolest sand box ever! Where was this when I played with my GI Joes?
Chris Mercier get GI Joe back out of storage! We are going to bring Joe into the 21st Century!!
Beals Science , epic stop animation Lego battle! Just Saying
This is totally mind blowing, why, for sure because someone can find usefulness of AR apart of amusement and marketing promotion
HOLY 💩‼️ This is the most insanely ingenious, interesting, intriguing, & incredible invention I have seen EVER, EVER, EVER, EVERRRRRR 👀 👍
Thank you for the kind words! I give all credit to the team that developed it at UC Davis.
For a guy who gives the KeckCAVES people "full credit", you give them pretty minimal credit. It's effectively jammed into the last few seconds of your video.
Let's be clear: the KeckCAVES researchers conceived of, built, tested, and supplied open plans to literally hundreds, possibly thousands, of people around the world, including you, who have built their own AR sandboxes. They worked with researchers, museums, teachers and hobbyists to make sure those plans could be implemented as widely and as openly as possible. My late sister founded and led KeckCAVES until her untimely death last year. They, not you, implemented the entire AR Sandbox system, and developed the fluid dynamic models that make the geodynamic simulations with water and volcanos possible.
As an educator myself, I appreciate that you made an excellent video that conveys the excitement of an augmented reality sandbox. The thrill on your kids' faces is priceless. I remember experiencing that excitement when I saw the first AR sandbox. But as an educator I also know the ethical value of giving proper credit. I hope your kids learn that from someone.
My reaction was pretty strident, but I still think you could have (and should have) been a lot more charitable in this video. Your other video (on how to build the box, and get the dimensions right fore the projector and Kinect) is excellent, and both more charitable while also making a really helpful contribution of your own.
Fantastic. just amazingly fantastic. Fun and realworld application
Thank you!!
simply blows my mind! wow!
Thanks for watching!
This should have gone viral. I am homeschooled and i need this stuff.
THANK YOU! I know of at least 25 schools and organizations that have contacted me to let me know they built an AR Sandbox using these plans! So, even though my video has never made it into the mainstream I am happy knowing that a lot of people were inspired to build one to inspire other people!
Thanks for watching!
Saw this at an aquarium in Connecticut, it was just luke this, and real fun to use. I wish you couod little house and stuff
They are popping up everywhere! That’s a good thing! More people should get to play with augmented reality environments!
Awesome, thanks I'm going to make one!!
Let me know how it turns out!
Saw this on a random compilation. You must be a fun teacher!
Thank you for the kind words!!
Those things are SOOO fun! I got to play with one of those at OMSI Oregon.
Was the one at OMSI this same size or bigger? I'd love to find someone (or somewhere) that has a HUGE version of this and go check it out.
Ok, im going to build. Ty 😀
No problem 👍
Thanks for watching!
Orlando Science Center has one, I could have played with it all day.
They really are amazing, aren’t they?!
Incredible!
stunning
This really is the coolest thing ever!
Thank you!
I give all the credit for this cool contraption to the folks at University of California - Davis who developed the idea.
*NOW THIS IS A REAL TEACHER*
Thanks!!
Very cool! Things like this that make learning fun are awesome. Thanks for creating such a good video for this!
Thank you! I literally just had a bunch of my high school students in my room after school. They've spent several days after school learning how to run the program and developing lessons for elementary kids. They will be taking the AR Sandbox to the elementary schools in our city this year and teaching little ones about science, technology, topography, etc!
In other words, this project is proving to be well worth the time and effort!
this hurts my head
a lot
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. I love the topography lines but what if I wanted a hexagonal pattern with a more satellite kind of view for dungeons and dragons or other tabletop games. Ooooo I just peed a little!
I am sure there are ways to tweak the code to make anything you'd like! In fact, there are companies using the system/code to sell this as a product and many of them offer other uses (games, mazes, ants crawling around the sand dunes, etc)!
I built it once too and it was endless hours of fun
They really are hours of fun, aren’t they?!
This made me so happy
Students in the University Simon Bolívar in Venezuela also built one of these! And it's completely awesome!!
Awesome! In your opinion, what activity with the AR Sandbox is the most fun?
I didn't have too much time to play around with it, but I would say that making a very tall mountain, then drawing an irregular path to the bottom and finally using your hand to produce rain from the top and seeing it actually fall and go through the path I made was the most awesome and fun thing I did with it!
It seems like mountains and rain are a favorite for most people! But my students absolute favorite is to destroy their mountains and cause landslides to watch the water slosh through the landscape! Thanks for sharing.
*Magnifique projet*
Thank you!
Super cool.
Thanks!
mind blown - good work!
Thank you!
Im going to use this in my next Geography class im so excited to use it
I think you are going to really enjoy it!
We made one last year for our college. The students loved it. How do you project the topography? What type of topography map you used?
I just pulled a topographic map as an image off the web and projected it. Then we built up the sand to match it.
Me pretending to be god
Really cool
Thanks!
I really love this. Well done!
Thank you!!
great video!
Thank you!!
You are a genius. Its a litter to expensive for me but i have a project that works wit procedural generated world and a paddle boat simulater if you can combine it you could create worlds on the fly. .. in seconds.
That would be amazing!
It looks so much like traditional war maps for deciding strategies.
That is exactly what it was developed for!
Great Work, I really like this
Thanks!
super cool !
Thanks!
I came in to watch this video with a bit of a hard nosed skeptical attitude and left without it. Well done.
Thank you!
Awesome!
Thank you!
I was at a ESA presentation, where they showed something exactly like this.
Finally the Kinect is being used for something
Agreed!!
This is truly genius
No words!!
Interestingly, now I know where the term "sandbox" (for trying out computer code) comes from!
hey Mr Beales, it's Micah, from chemistry! this is so cool, I just might attempt to recreate it!
Micah Tow thanks! Turned out pretty awesome didn't it! If you don't end up making one you can always come to school and play in the sand!
Good for creators in the studios games.
That is awesome! you seem like an amazing teacher! and the other teachers seem like they had a blast! keep up the good work at home and on the job!
+MyGamester Gamin thank you for the kind words! And thanks for watching!
You are an absolute genius. I want one to cure my anxiety
Genius?! Well, thank you!
But all the credit goes to the team at UC Davis who developed it.
This is amazing. I’ve dreamed of this as a tool to use to explain to customers about their existing and Proposed earthmoving project. I understand the whole build except one thing….what is the software needed? How does that work? Thanks
The software is free and available through the link in the description. All you need it a PC with a capable graphics card, Linux, the free software l, and you are in your way!
With new technology, I think it would be awesome if it updated in real time
This would be great for military terrain boards!
I was inspired to build one of these when I first saw this at a Military Simulating and Training Conference in Florida where it was showcased as a terrain board that would be mobile and could be used in the field!
This is amazing. I can't even believe how awesome this is. How much did it cost?
It cost about $1800 US to build but you could do it for less with cheaper components or for more if you want higher resolution.
Is there a way to buy something like this somewhere? Or a museum where this can be found?
There are a lot of museums that have this for people to use but I don’t have a list of which ones, sorry.
There's one setup at the Mystic Aquarium. Its very cool. Its common to see the parents pushing kids aside to play with it.
Ha! I’ve seen adults do the same thing!
Dude! This is really cool
Thank you!!
This is very cool for the world of GIS
I can only imagine how powerful it would be to have this linked to GIS so we could display any data!
Amazing!
Thanks!
We find that the projector burns out quickly. Have you had that problem too. Ours is on 8 hours a day and often gets sand in it
We were running into an issue with the BenQ projector overheating as well. I think this is due to a couple of things: Sand particles and dust collect quickly in the projector (we try to blow ours out often but only after it has cooled down) AND the fan on this type of projector points out the same direction as the lamp. And, because the lamp is pointed down, the heat doesn't dissipate quickly enough. To help with this, we bought a small fan that blows air down onto the projector to help clear the heat that builds up near the lamp (I would show you a picture but ours is currently set up at another school). This really seems to help with the heat issue and with helping push the sand dust away from the intake. It is a pretty cheap and quick fix and it may work for you as well!
This is the fan we purchased (amzn.to/2j0GG6g)
we got one in my geology class and shits cool
I remember seeing this on a field trip i went on back in 6th grade
They make a lasting impression don’t they!
Teaching: No greater profession. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words!
I am glad teaching found me - I can't imagine myself anywhere else!
Hi Craig, just curious have you observed an improvement in student's Spaitial Reasoning from using the sandbox? Thanks!
I definitely think it helps student’s spatial reasoning!
How did you build a sturdy enough platform for 250 pounds of sand?
Use good wood and lots of bolts!
How do you use the sandbox in your lesson plans? Does it become a distraction?
all the tiny people living there be like, ahhh, the hand is back! 😂
😆
Epic man, Epic.
Thanks!!
This is awesome
The link to make the map of this fall? It just won't let me open it, and I would be interested in applying it in my classroom.
Can you clarify which link isn’t working and I will try to fix it.
this is so cool i want to make one now
Bails Hardy thank you! If you build one you will not be disappointed! It is way more amazing in real life!
so, how is the god game genre going?
Please let me know how can we get it...we are interested in your system...
Can I use the Xbox One Kinect with this? I know you say the second generation will not work... I hope you can find a way for that. I think the second generation Kinect is superior in every way specwise.
You have to scale this down somehow and get it on the market I think it would sell like crazy
There is a lot of potential! There are a few companies making this now and hey sell software packages that allow you to change the projection into other things.
Idk why i need this but i do
Agreed!
I love this and wish there was a way to bring this Nickelodeon!
You must feel like GOD using this
Your using my pic
Wonder works in pigeon forge Tennessee has a dinosaur version of this it is so cool
A dinosaur version? Tell me more! That sounds interesting!
The sand became a volcano the higher the pile of sand was it spewed lava too the flatter the sand the more ocean you had all the while dinosaurs walked around
Sounds amazing!
Shut up and take my money!
That's basically playing god,at this point im sure god is the ultimate scientist
yeah all 6400$ it costs?😭😭😭 my broke ass longs for this
Awsome
Thank you!
Hello! I’m from Philippines, and I really want to build this kind of project here in our country.
You definitely should build an AR Sandbox! You won't be disappointed! Le me know if you decide to take on the challenge.
Awesome!, awesome! This is mindblowing! :O
You are way too kind! Thank you!
Hi, I'm trying to make it on my school, I own a Kinect but,what are the dimensions of the sandbox?
I’ve got more information and a video on how to build this at www.bealsscience.com/post/2017/06/07/augmented-reality-sandbox-will-blow-your-mind
I hope that helps!
I do have a question though... you said it took months to make, but is it because it is a particularly difficult build; or because you are teacher and therefore busy?
It really isn’t too difficult to build. It took me so long because of time spent getting the funds, drawing up plans and figuring out how to make it mobile so I can take it to other schools. The construction only took a few hours!
Ok, great; that's kind of what I was thinking...