Learning Chinese- AR

An educational Chinese hieroglyph character simulator in AR space

Augmented Reality, Unity, C# Programming, Vuforia Engine, Image Target Tracking, Git/Source Control

- Individual Project
- 3 weeks

// OVERVIEW

Chinese characters, also called Hanzi are complicated logograms system. Learning Chinese can be extremely difficult, however, it can be intuitive once you understand how each character was formed. To better assisting the education process, this project is developed to visualize the evolution from hieroglyph to the written form of Chinese.

// Steps of Learning

Let's use the Chinese character "家“ (Meaning 'Home') as an example: the word is a combination of "roof" and "pig", and below are the evolution of each element:

Step 1: Image scan to reveal 3D object

When a custom-made physical card of Chinese Characters is presented, a 3D object with its meaning appears above the card.

Image Tracking

Step 2: Virtual button control to display character evolution

Each card has a virtual button that can be pressed to display a series of Chinese character evolution since ancient times.

Roof

Pig

Step 3: Combine to uncover new character and meaning

Lastly, each character can interact with others to show the new character. When two cards are placed side by side, the app reveals the new character and meaning.

Move closer to show new meaning