ATHENS, Ga., June 25 -- The University of Georgia issued the following news release:
Imagine you're a homeowner in Augusta. Your yard was once filled with beautiful trees, but after Hurricane Helene swept through in September 2024, it was reduced to a disaster zone. The now-bare landscape transports you back to that frightening time every time you look out the window.
That was the scenario a team of undergraduate University of Georgia students in the New Media Institute certificate program imagined when they began developing an augmented reality web-based application for the Grow Back Project, a multidisciplinary collaboration between UGA and the Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area.
"It's one thing to understand how ...