Do biologists use augmented reality? -Katie, Hannah

Katie/Hannah - great question!

Believe it or not, augmented reality can be used in almost every single educational and career field. Let me give you a couple examples geared towards biology. Imagine walking through a park and you see a beautiful flower, but don't know anything about it. You can point your phone towards the flower/tree/plant/butterfly and immediately received digital information superimposed on the screen. It will tell you the name, division, where you can find them, perhaps even a button which you can press which can have someone send a couple of those flowers to your house! The same can go for marine biology and wildlife. Instead of pointing your phone towards a flower, imagine walking through a jungle and through AR lens an extinct animal comes walking out of a bush in front of you. Then the screen shows you information about the animal and there is a voice that describes the traits and origins of the animal.

The possibilities are endless. Keep asking such questions!

I love animals also! I will go beyond AR/VR. I think there is a need to create a solution that enables human to communicate with animals. Imagine technology like Artificial Intelligence can translate signal from the animals (the signal may be a sound, color pattern, posture, movement, touch, release of an odorant, etc.) to something that human can understand. Wouldn't that be great?