  Virtual learning environments are a useful modality for engaging students in
the classroom by affording them a sense of presence and immersion. The
motivation of this project was to create an open-source augmented reality
electrical circuit application for use in lower division engineering courses to
teach students about electricity fundamentals. Softwares that are readily
available for use on virtual and augmented reality devices do not typically
apply to all disciplines and do not necessarily have a pedagogical or
accessibility focus. Considering this lack of appropriate educational
applications for the current virtual and augmented reality devices, a team of
interdisciplinary students was assembled to create such software. With
extensive usability studies, the application was designed for quick adoption
and improve accessibility by providing multimodal access such as voice
assistant, gray scaling for depth perception and daltonize the app. The
software is available as part of VITaL Laboratory, Sonoma State University.
