Lab AR

The Problem we are solving

Bangladesh is progressing slowly in terms of knowledge in the world, because the education system only focuses on memorization. But we will improvise and bring in practical, virtual and augmented apps and games to make the education system more dependable.

The Solution we will provide

The best way to learn something is through practical experience, more so if it's technological. So, Lab AR will provide them with Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality educational apps and games. This way, students will find learning more interesting than ever.

How we will change the lives of Bangladeshi people

We will participate in the market of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality alongside with other countries later. But first, we will try to create a technological area for education in Bangladesh.

Scale of the problem

Up until now, the education system in our country is mostly based on
memorization. Most Students are only memorizing text book to pass their
exams and they are not thinking about learning.

It's because they find memorizing text book elements boring and forget them in the long run even if the read them.

People Affected

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality is hardly taken in by many developing countries. Same goes for our country. Hardly anyone understands the importance of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. These areas will engulf the world soon and our country should not start late for these areas. The sooner we start improving these areas in our country the better we will be able to cope up with the developed countries.

Contributing Factors

• Interesting
• Practical
• Cope up with latest technologies
• Simulation

Participation of the common people of Bangladesh !

Most of our student's only know about Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. But they have hardly experience these areas. So, we built an educational app and brought it around the schools around our headquarters. The students found the apps very amusing and was very interested for such more apps and games.

Address their needs !

We talked with different school students and they all agreed that such apps and games will make their education more interesting and help them study with diligence.

Product or Services we are providing

1. AR Computer Book : This app, if focused on the book we will provide, shows different computer parts in 3D and they can be mingled with. This will allow students to move around the parts and check them out. It's just a prototype to see how it goes.
2. AR Color Book : This App, if focused on the drawing book we will provide, shows 3D model of the object in the drawing book and when colored in the drawing book, shows how much the object is colored.
3. VR Science City : This App shows the 3D models of extinct animals, NASA Air Crafts, Air Crafts of interest and their details. We are planning to conserve the historical interests in 3D models such as Mohastangar, Paharpur etc. which are being naturally destroyed as days pass by.
4. Architecture : This app allows one to virtually experience an architecture. It can be used in case of buying a design of house or travel inside the architecture.

There are many more projects we have done.

The Technology We are using

1. Smart Phone
2. VR Headset
3. Computer

We are providing an app called VR Science City. Until now, nowhere in the world is there an App like this.

We have plan for either this app or creating another app. That app will present different Country tradition and interests.

Different Countries will have different portals. Each portals will be linked with virtual memory or else the app will be too large to open or experience.

In case of Bangladesh portal, we will present the traditions and interests of Bangladesh.

For example,

we will present,

1. Vehicles (Rickshaw, CNG, Van etc.)
2. Historical Interests (Mohastangar, Paharpur etc.)
3. Clothes (Lungi and Shirt, Sharee etc.)

etc.

Currently, we are serving only the children from nearby schools and colleges.

Despite being a rural area, The amount is around 300.

By next year, we are planning to serve around 10000 students, but we will need to proceed to Dhaka for that case. We will start fresh from there.

By the next five years, we are estimating around 100000 students who will enjoy our services.

With in the next year, we are planning to improve our app and turn the text books of a single class of students into Virtual and Augmented Reality, for example, Class 3.

And within the next 5 years, we will turn every textbook in our country into Virtual and augmented reality.

We will also hold classes for skill development in the area we work on and choose people with potential to work alongside us.

The Barriers we are facing

• Skills : To turn a text book into fully virtual or augmented requires skill. We are at the middle point where we will create, let people test, improve and again let people test.
• Funding : 3D Modelling, Animation, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality simulation etc. takes a high quality PC which is very costly. Also, some 3D materials might need to be bought from online as they require more skills and more time.
• Marketing : Simply creating such apps won't do any good unless we get a good marketing of the app.

• Skills : Skills can't be bought, it can only be achieved through practice and experience. We are always working on such projects to increase our skills and we will continue to do so.
• Funding : Funding is something we can't achieve as we are hardly known to any interested human being a new Army university. We need it badly to move on. Without funding, we are only improving our skills, nothing else.
• Marketing : When we will get the funding, marketing will be a piece of cake to handle. This era is of Internet where many of us have smart phones in our hands. Marketing in this era is not that tough.

Currently, our solution teams consists of 10 members.

Full-time : 5

Part-time : 4

Contractors : 1

All of our team members study in Computer Science and Engineering subject from Bangladesh Army University of Engineering and Technology.

We have been working on Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality Apps and Games development for 1.5 years. We also make normal apps and games.

Due to this experience and skill, we are more likely to be in the best position to deliver the solution.

We haven't decided our business model yet. We are a start up, that's why.

But we do have decided a business model for one of our project called VR Science City. The model is Freemium model.

We want to bring our Country, Bangladesh to light. We want our country to be recognized as rivals in the world market and development.

For that, we will need to cope up with other countries.

But first, we need our people to learn more, get educated in the best way possible and then implement their knowledge on technologies and other stuffs.

The solution we are providing is just a single step for such purpose. But each step is important.

To take that step, we will need some funding. That's why we are depending on TigerIT.

We would like to partner with such organization that will invest on us to create Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Apps, Games and softwares to educate people, to hype them up and to enable them to use their knowledge for better development of Bangladesh.

Let's turn Bangladesh in a Digitalized Country as per the will of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.