A Survey on the Effectiveness of Hololens and Augmented Reality in Education

Abstract

Augmented Reality or AR is a largely used term since the invention of Microsoft Hololens and the use of AR in mobile applications. With the help of advanced AR, information about the real world of the user has become interactive and digitally manipulable. Augmented or mixed reality (AR or MR) has recently become easily accessible to professionals, with the release of Microsoft's Hololens. Hololens is an untethered, fully self-contained Windows 10 computer that rests comfortably on user's head and lets a user create holograms, that appear in the world around the user, just as if they are real objects. The user can interact with AR applications through head movements, gestures and voices. This survey paper is the starting phase of planning a project to do in educational field to enhance interests of computer engineering students using various existing application ideas in learning and hence analysing the effectiveness of Hololens for Augmented Reality applications in various interests of education.

An Augmented Reality application for Simplifying Engineering Concepts

“…The device has gaze, gesture, and voice recognition capabilities along with spatial mapping. The intention for proposing this work for students is to provide them with eye-catching presentations hence they would understand better and learn the subjects thoroughly through visualizations of the difficult concepts as the Hololens is best known for providing an interactive environment, hence their results would be appreciable [10].…”