Hidenori Watanave Laboratory, Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University will release the mapping contents of the AR globe "Almost Day Earth Ball *", which has been researched and developed jointly with Hobonichi Co., Ltd., from January 2018. announced.
Hidenori Watanave Laboratory has been researching and developing mapping content based on the AR globe "Almost Day Earth Ball" since July 2017 in collaboration with Hobonichi Co., Ltd., whose president is Shigeto Itoi. By combining "Almost Day Earth Ball" and the geovisualization technology that Hidenori Watanave has researched and developed, we aim to realize AR content that provides knowledge about the earth and humankind and a fresh user experience. ing.
Three AR contents based on the research results will be released sequentially on the "Almost Day Earth Ball" app. The first content scheduled to be released on January 3, 2018 is "Bumpy Earth". On the "Almost Day Earth Ball", the terrain emphasized about 1 times as much as the actual one is three-dimensionally expressed, the Himalayas with mountains over 22 m above sea level, and the Antarctic continent covered with ice as thick as 100 m. And so on.You can experience various "bumps" and learn about the terrain.
The second is "The Transition of Day and Night" (scheduled to be released in late February).Animate how the day and night on the ground change due to sunlight.While switching between the four modes of spring equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, and winter solstice, you can learn how the place where the light hits differs depending on the inclination of the earth's axis, such as the mechanism by which the "white night" is born.
The third is the students' "handmade artificial satellite" (scheduled to be released in late March).Covers artificial satellite data developed by students of universities and technical colleges that are members of the University Space Engineering Consortium (UNISEC).The orbit drawn in about one day is reproduced at 3x speed.Students' "handmade artificial satellites" fly around the earth ball, and detailed data of each satellite is also displayed.
* Almost Day Earth Ball is a globe released by Hobonichi on December 2017, 12.You can access photos, videos, texts, etc. from all over the world by holding a smartphone or tablet equipped with the latest AR technology and installing a dedicated application.
