Welcome to the Maroon repository. Maroon is an interactive laboratory and experiment environment implemented in Unity, designed for active learning in the classroom or at home. It visualizes and simulates various experiments.

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Overview

Maroon is an interactive and immersive laboratory developed in Unity, a game engine which allows to build and deploy a high-quality 3D environment across mobile, desktop and VR platforms. The lab is designed to support the flexible integration of different interactive learning experiences. To start a specific learning experience, the user can approach one of those stations (illustrated with circular markers). From there the user can teleport to a new room which represents the specific learning experiences with the learning content, simulations, or experiments.

The following conceptual overview of the different versions of Maroon (Maroon Desktop, Maroon Room-Scale VR, Maroon Mobile VR and Maroon Multi-User) illustrates the different forms of engagement Maroon supports or plans to support.

Simulations and Experiments

Maroon contains several physics, chemistry, and computer science experiments, but will be extended with experiences from other STEM fields in the future. The physics experiments cover Coulomb's Law, Falling Coil, Faraday's Law, Huygen's Principle, Point Wave, Pendulum, Van de Graaff Balloon, Van de Graaff Generator, Optics, 3D Motion Simulation, Cathode Ray Tube, and Falling Ball Viscosimeter. The chemistry experiments are represented by Titration and Catalyst. And Computer Science experiments include Sorting, State Machine, Path Finding, Minimum Spanning Tree, and Perlin Noise.