Perhaps the coolest sandbox in the world!
The Augmented Reality Sandbox at DLR_School_Lab Berlin – one of more than 15 DLR student laboratories – is a combination of a physical sandbox and digital augmented reality, in other words, the embedding of virtual objects in the real world. The interactive installation makes it possible to shape a landscape out of sand while a computer simultaneously scans the surface and uses a projector to display the appropriate contour lines, colours or textures on it. It then looks as if water or lava is flowing over the real sand. There are no limits to the imagination: mountain lakes, volcanoes, dams, river beds, lunar craters and much more can be recreated in the ‘high-tech sandbox’.
The sandbox makes it possible to experience remote sensing methods in an unparalleled way. But other topics such as geography, geology or hydrology, for example, can also be made tangible in the literal sense – true to the DLR_School_Labs motto: ‘Hands-on research’.
Links:
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
DLR_School_Lab Berlin
E-Mail contact-dlr@DLR.de
