Virtual and Augmented Reality based assembly design system for personalized learning

Recent technological advances have revolutionized the way humans interact with computers and the world around them. These technological advances have significantly changed science and engineering practices and it has become imperative to bring these changes into engineering classrooms. This paper presents the development of a Virtual and Augmented Reality (VAR) based personalized learning environment. The VAR environment provides a virtual instruction based pedagogical tool which integrates virtual models and visual cues to teach engineering design. With machine design as the theme, the learning environment immerses students in practical assembly design challenges, where student can interact with real and virtual machine part objects in presence of interactive and guided support.