AR Osteoclasts

Playfully learn about the process of bone resorption by using augmented reality.

This app accompanies the book “external pageCell-to-Cell Communication: Cell Atlas – Visual Biology in Oral Medicine” and allows the user to experience the process of bone resorption in augmented reality. AR Osteoclasts draws you into the microcosm of osteoclasts right above the bone surface. In the augmented display, you are zoomed in to the level at which an osteoclast precursor cell appears to be the size of a hand. You investigate the bone resorption process from all sides by moving around the augmented display on top of your book page and you interact with cells to learn more about their function.

The game is developed as part of a research collaboration between the Game Technology Center (Jascha Grübel, Violaine Fayolle, Dr. Fabio Zünd) the external pageCenter for Dental Medicine at the University of Zurich (Prof. Bernd Stadlinger), external pageinterActive Systems (Matthias Gauer, Thomas Kramer, Dr. Marko Reschke), and external pageQuintessence Publishing (Änne Kappeler, Dr. Alexander Ammann)

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How To

Install the app for external pageiOS or for external pageAndroid
Launch the app
After the introduction, point the device's camera at the image below or at Figure 1 in the book Cell-to-Cell Communication: Cell Atlas – Visual Biology in Oral Medicine on page 146.
Enjoy!

Figure 1 in<i> Cell-to-Cell Communication: Cell Atlas – Visual Biology in Oral Medicine</i>, page 146: Scanning electron microscopy of an osteoclast in its resorption lacuna. (Courtesy of eye science.) — Figure 1 in Cell-to-Cell Communication: Cell Atlas – Visual Biology in Oral Medicine, page 146: Scanning electron microscopy of an osteoclast in its resorption lacuna. (Courtesy of eye science.)