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A digital pop-up book that can only be read with a webcam
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A digital pop-up book that can only be read with a webcam
February 4, 2013 | 10:00 am
By Dan Eldridge
Last week, we wrote about an interesting augmented reality app that was developed with the intention of making a Japanese newspaper, the Tokyo Shimbun, more appealing to children. With the app installed on a smartphone, a child can hold her phone above certain articles, and then watch the screen as kid-friendly content relating to the article is revealed.
Today we bring you an even more unusual augmented reality story, this one a poetry book that only be read with the use of a webcam. Between Page and Screen, appropriately enough, is the book's title. And instead of text, each page displays a black and white shape that looks not unlike...



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