About the VITAL Lab
What’s new in this version
- Initial universal release (only iPad 2 is officially supported)
- Includes all the capabilities of the PC version (including character customization and virtual boat features)
- Uses virtual joystick and touch controls for player and boat navigation
A new version of Virtual Boat for Environmental Education (VBEE) is released. The latest release can be found here.
What’s new in this version
- Free navigation: you can test water qualities everywhere.
- New GUI: Stable, simple, uniformed, and runs well in different machines with different resolutions, (high to low resolutions).
- Only one objective icon (click it to get detailed information), no more complex objective list.
- Only show mini map in navigation mode.
- New data diagram with dynamic data.
- Soundclips for interesting locations (not required to test locations following an order any more).
- Note: the size is about 48MB, thus it may take a few minutes to load the game at the first time.
A new version of Virtual Boat for Environmental Education (VBEE) is released. The latest release can be found here.
What’s new in this version
- Add: Functions for calculating pH value everywhere in real-time.
- Add: Add a new data diagram, to test this new diagram, players have to click the laptop before driving to the fish kill.
- Add: An animation of a deer eating on a small island on the right hand side of the fish kill.
- Improve: New boat
- Improve: New GUI style
- Fix: Change all “floating fish” to “fish kill”
A new version of Virtual Boat for Environmental Education (VBEE) is released. The latest release can be found here.
What’s new in this version
- Add: Units for all water quality data in all data diagrams
- Improve: Remove completed objectives from objective list (based on suggestions from teachers in fall 2011 PD)
- Fix: Change Nitrate value from mg/l to % saturation
- Fix: Delete useless textures
- Fix: “play now” button is for single play mode now
A new version of Virtual Boat for Environmental Education (VBEE) is released. The latest release can be found here.
Virtual Boat Ohio River Map
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- In-game map with structures
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- In-game map without structures, indicating the surveying spots
We have released the latest version of the Virtual Boat Game at 10.10.2011.
Play Version 11.1010 (Release date: 10-10-2011)
New features include a coordinate system showing the coordinates of each location on the higher left corner of the game and a new GIS like map represents the real terrain on the lower right corner of the game.
BooKS boat trip
Boat trip is an activity in BooKS project to provide high school students a chance to explore the water quality of Ohio river region. High school students take the boat to a water sampling position either on Ohio river or Muskingum river. By using instruments provided by BooKS project, students do hands-on experiments to test water quality including PH, temperature, conductivity, total dissolved solids, phosphate, nitrate, nitrite, etc.
Calibrating PH meter before using it
Testing water quality using PH meter
Collecting water sample
An easy way to test water quality is using datasonde
Virtual Boat Screenshots
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- Player character standing next to the data collection device
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- Finding the dead fish indicates the start of the fish kill scenario
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- Viewing the results of the first location survey
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- In-game questions with hints
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- Pollutant source
