The ARTree team exhibited two demos at the Art and Technology exhibition in Hopkins Hall Gallery on December 2017. These demonstrated two parts we want to include in the app. One is to show the invisible gas exchange between humans and plants and the other is a geolocated virtual tree. For purposes of this exhibition, we designed it to manifest at the entrance of the gallery.
Using augmented reality, Kelsey McShane, Ashten Brooks, Lina Sasaki and Emily Greenberg created a tree that appears to exist at the entrance of Hopkins Hall Gallery at the Ohio State University.
Using a target-based augmented reality application, Marty Koelsch created a visualization of the health benefits we receive from plants. Invisible gasses are made visible here as oxygen (blue) emits from the stomata (the mouths) of the plant leaves. A button onscreen can be pressed to simulate the emission of carbon dioxide from our breath (red), which gets absorbed into the stomata of the leaves, showing what is happening in real life.
