A group of student’s, started by Jenelysc Martinez-Paez, Ivy Legg, and Robert Nester created a robotics club. Brad Henry, CEO of EduTechnologic, llc came to evaluate and assess the project. Henry noticed the potential project and was curious how the students would do with a new tool from PTC, Vuforia Studio, and the HMT-1 wearable device from RealWear.
Two weeks into the project the students had successfully created their first CAD model, using CREO and Vuforia Studio 
(previously ThingWorx) augmented reality experience of one of the student robots. Henry took it a step further with the students and they tested and assessed the project using the RealWear head mounted device, HMT-1. What astounded Henry was the student’s ability to construct the model and experience without any type of formal training, just the guidance of their instructor Bruce Mortland.
Augmented reality is an emerging technology that allows a user with a mobile or wearable device to overlay information into a real-world view of their environment. The student AR experience uses PTC ThingWorx and Creo CAD model. To view the experience a user scans a ThingWorx marker, a marker is similar to a QR code, using the mobile application, the experience is then opened and viewable in the application.
Video Recorded by Ivy Legg.
Godson Tetteh-Mensah is working to point a phone at a classroom number outside a classroom door to display teacher name, subject, schedule and other pertinent information to a student with a mobile device.
Students gain valuable experience and work to create technology and increase their knowledge of Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 is the next phase of technology innovation and where the human-computer interaction becomes seamless and human choices can cause the technology to react appropriately and, at times, invisibly to humans. It is the melding to sensors, programming and big data.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
https://www.sap.com/documents/2017/05/bae613d3-b97c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.html
