From Prompt to Embodied Simulation: Using Generative AI to Create AR Physics Learning Tools
Physics Education
2026-07-27 v1
Abstract
Spread your thumb and index finger in the air, and a virtual lamp in the room changes color. Computer simulations have a long and well-documented record of supporting physics learning. They can support the understanding of abstract physical concepts by making them interactive and by inviting students to play with parameters and explore them. In this paper, we show how a structured natural-language prompt can generate a browser-based, hand-controlled augmented-reality (AR) physics simulation, and we describe its use in an introductory physics class.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.24709,
title = {From Prompt to Embodied Simulation: Using Generative AI to Create AR Physics Learning Tools},
author = {Ofek Levy and Joshua Glazer and Noah D. Finkelstein and Yossi Ben-Zion},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.24709},
year = {2026}
}