The Community Service Team of the Informatics and Computer Engineering Education Study Program (PTIK) Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) Sebelas Maret University (UNS) Surakarta held a workshop entitled “Training for Development of Augmented Reality Learning Media” on Mondays and Tuesdays (26 -27 July 2021). This learning media development training workshop, chaired by Dr. Agus Effendi, M.Pd. This event is a collaboration between the PTIK FKIP UNS Research and Community Service Center (P2M) TEAM and SMKN 2 Karanganyar.
In this event, two presenters were present, namely Endar Suprih Wahidayat, S.T., M.Eng. and Yusfia Hafid Aristyagama, S.T., M.T. This activity was opened with a greeting from the chief executive, Dr. Agus Effendi, M.Pd. and Deputy Head of SMKN 2 Karanganyar, Drs. Soetanto, M.T.
The event which was held for 2 days was attended by as many as 60 participants. The learning media development training workshop started from an introduction to augmented reality (AR) learning media to an explanation of one of the existing AR learning media development media, namely the Unity application.
The first speaker, Endar Suprih Wahidayat, S.T., M.Eng., delivered material on the introduction of AR learning media in the form of AR learning media definitions, components, types of markers, AR development and the benefits of using AR technology itself.
“Augmented reality is almost the same as virtual reality. The difference is, AR inserts virtual objects into the real world, while VR does the opposite. VR actually inserts real objects into the virtual world,” explained Endar.
The second speaker, Yusfia Hafid Aristyagama, S.T., M.T., delivered material on marker based augmented reality using Unity 3D and the Vuforia SDK.
On the first day, Yusfia demonstrated the Unity application installation to the account creation stage. On the second day, Yusfia demonstrated the use of the Unity application and the Vuforia SDK in creating an AR media project. The Unity application used is Unity in 2019 so it can be opened in the series below.
“Unity in 2019 can be downloaded on Windows 8 and 10. We use the 2019 series so that it can be opened in the series below. If we use the 2021 series, it will only be able to be opened in that year’s series, “explained Yusfia.