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“The Archive” is an application designed to bring aspects of Junior Cycle (JC) subjects to life using virtual reality. The aim of our app was to place the student in an immersive virtual world, allowing them to learn in a more engaging and active way. We have created scenes that students interact with, assisting their study and allowing them to assess their learning through quiz-style questions.
We have created two different scenes to assist the student with JC History and Science. The student is placed in a virtual reality in either the trenches of World War 1 or a science laboratory. Our goal was to make a proof of concept that can assist with the study of our chosen JC subjects and we feel by creating this app, we have achieved this. We believe that this is an effective method as it is based on the process of ‘learning by doing’.
We created our application using an app called Godot. Godot is a new game engine with many tools for creating VR apps, so it was suitable for our project. We created the models for our scenes using an app called Blender which has all the tools necessary to create an immersive and interactive world. In our newest iteration of the project, we completely rewrote the code from the ground up and switched to a new, simpler art style, cutting down on development time and making the app run smoother on VR devices, along with the addition of the science scene.
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