A platform for supporting the development of mixed reality environments for educational games

Abstract

In this work we present MR-GREP, a platform that supports educators in the design and implementation of mixed reality educational games. More specifically the system allows the instructional designers to create game experiences that can be played simultaneously in an augmented reality environment as well as in a virtual space that replicates the physical space. This seeks to support the implementation of collaborative learning experiences that combine the flexibility provided by the virtual worlds with the realism and physical component that training in real scenarios allows. The development of this type of environments usually demand advanced technical knowledge that educators normally lack. The platform aims to overcome this problem by providing a set of authoring tools and applications, which does not require programming skills from the user.