Augmented Reality Sandbox will Blow Your Mind! 

Glad someone found a use for the Kinect

A literal topographical sandbox, wow! That is so trippy.

We had one in the small natural history museum at a college where I taught. It was great for illustrating concepts about surfaces and vectors in multivariable calculus too!

4:29 Experienced this at Buffalo Museum of Science. Our two littles seemed to enjoy this exhibit most. I know I surely did 🌏🌍

Incredible!

This is quite honestly one of the coolest things I’ve seen in my life

Very cool! Things like this that make learning fun are awesome. Thanks for creating such a good video for this!

Building something that baffles people when you explain it and then having them all go "OOOOOH! RAD. I want to play with that!" is just an amazing feeling. I've built a few projects that when explained sounded absolutely nuts or incomprehensible but once finished were instant hits with friends... but never this kind of hit. :P I want to play with that...

This is mind-boggling cool!!! I'm gonna see if I can suggest this to my school.

My school just made one... Beautiful

This is really awesome.

playing with sand on a whole new level^^

dude this is insane!!

I really love this. Well done!

You could create a video game map in the sand, scan that map and then Paste the scan as terrain for the game. And the best thing about that is: It’s very fast and easy to make. And beautiful Edit: And it is easily customisable

This made me so happy

stunning

mind blown - good work!

Awesome, thanks I'm going to make one!!

simply blows my mind! wow!

This is awesome

This is amazing !!!! Im amazed at thw thing we as humans can invent and this seems like a great mixture of education and fun . its awesome .

Dude! This is really cool

Hello Craig. Thank you for posting your video of the augmented reality sandbox. Last summer, I built one for my 5th-grade classroom. It works great and kids are learning many lessons from it. I recently added a bulk bag of small fossils so they can use it as a dino dig as well. Just an idea for you!

This is totally mind blowing, why, for sure because someone can find usefulness of AR apart of amusement and marketing promotion

Very nice project. It looks awesome. : )

Awesome!

awesome! thank you

By far the coolest sand box ever! Where was this when I played with my GI Joes?

Very useful for many applications.

Those things are SOOO fun! I got to play with one of those at OMSI Oregon.

*Magnifique projet*

This really is the coolest thing ever!

Ok, im going to build. Ty 😀

Fantastic. just amazingly fantastic. Fun and realworld application

My school got one of these the other day!! So excited for my geology class to use it!!

Great Work, I really like this

Amazing!

This should have gone viral. I am homeschooled and i need this stuff.

great video!

super cool !

Awesome!, awesome! This is mindblowing! :O

No words!!

this is so cool i want to make one now

Super cool.

This is truly genius

Saw this at an aquarium in Connecticut, it was just luke this, and real fun to use. I wish you couod little house and stuff

Epic man, Epic.

For a guy who gives the KeckCAVES people "full credit", you give them pretty minimal credit. It's effectively jammed into the last few seconds of your video. Let's be clear: the KeckCAVES researchers conceived of, built, tested, and supplied open plans to literally hundreds, possibly thousands, of people around the world, including you, who have built their own AR sandboxes. They worked with researchers, museums, teachers and hobbyists to make sure those plans could be implemented as widely and as openly as possible. My late sister founded and led KeckCAVES until her untimely death last year. They, not you, implemented the entire AR Sandbox system, and developed the fluid dynamic models that make the geodynamic simulations with water and volcanos possible. As an educator myself, I appreciate that you made an excellent video that conveys the excitement of an augmented reality sandbox. The thrill on your kids' faces is priceless. I remember experiencing that excitement when I saw the first AR sandbox. But as an educator I also know the ethical value of giving proper credit. I hope your kids learn that from someone.

Teaching: No greater profession. Thank you.

Really cool

I built it once too and it was endless hours of fun

hey Mr Beales, it's Micah, from chemistry! this is so cool, I just might attempt to recreate it!

HOLY 💩‼️ This is the most insanely ingenious, interesting, intriguing, & incredible invention I have seen EVER, EVER, EVER, EVERRRRRR 👀 👍

YOU ARE THE BEST!

This is amazing. I can't even believe how awesome this is. How much did it cost?

Im going to use this in my next Geography class im so excited to use it

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. I love the topography lines but what if I wanted a hexagonal pattern with a more satellite kind of view for dungeons and dragons or other tabletop games. Ooooo I just peed a little!

Saw this on a random compilation. You must be a fun teacher!

Good for creators in the studios games.

Orlando Science Center has one, I could have played with it all day.

*NOW THIS IS A REAL TEACHER*

This would be great for military terrain boards!

Awsome

We made one last year for our college. The students loved it. How do you project the topography? What type of topography map you used?

With new technology, I think it would be awesome if it updated in real time

I also want those project for the learning AR

I went to wonder works and saw this :)

Students in the University Simon Bolívar in Venezuela also built one of these! And it's completely awesome!!

This is amazing. I’ve dreamed of this as a tool to use to explain to customers about their existing and Proposed earthmoving project. I understand the whole build except one thing….what is the software needed? How does that work? Thanks

You are a genius. Its a litter to expensive for me but i have a project that works wit procedural generated world and a paddle boat simulater if you can combine it you could create worlds on the fly. .. in seconds.

I am a little confused as to how the projector works. Can you make a video that elaborate on that?

nice video

Shut up and take my money!

this hurts my head a lot

Your amazing

You are an absolute genius. I want one to cure my anxiety

It looks so much like traditional war maps for deciding strategies.

Finally the Kinect is being used for something

This is very cool for the world of GIS

Interestingly, now I know where the term "sandbox" (for trying out computer code) comes from!

I love this and wish there was a way to bring this Nickelodeon!

I was at a ESA presentation, where they showed something exactly like this.

we got one in my geology class and shits cool

Helllo. Extremely nice work. I want know how much sensitive it is ? Can it detect 1 mm elevation or depression ? Can we focus it on smaller areas like human cornea ?

I came in to watch this video with a bit of a hard nosed skeptical attitude and left without it. Well done.

I remember seeing this on a field trip i went on back in 6th grade

awesome, i want to build one, where I can buy the projector bracket? thanks.

İncredible..

I subscribed right a way

There's one setup at the Mystic Aquarium. Its very cool. Its common to see the parents pushing kids aside to play with it.

all the tiny people living there be like, ahhh, the hand is back! 😂

I've seen something like this in the Scott Family Amazeum in 2015 when it first opened

I'm trying to build the sandbox but we are facing some issues with the calibration process . It would be great if you guys can help me sort out the issues

You must feel like GOD using this

Is there a way to buy something like this somewhere? Or a museum where this can be found?

WOW!! THIS IS FREAKING AMAZING! After you do u carving etc... Could you export the A/R model with contours to a 3D modeling program??

Hi! This is an incredible project! I cannot acces to the links on the description, do you have any other? Thank you so much!

We find that the projector burns out quickly. Have you had that problem too. Ours is on 8 hours a day and often gets sand in it

That is awesome! you seem like an amazing teacher! and the other teachers seem like they had a blast! keep up the good work at home and on the job!