Bugs 3D Book with Webcam

By POPAR Toys
Price $40.00
Age 4 +

The large, hardcover BUGS 3D book, with its colorful photos, illustrations, and well-crafted and informative text, will deeply engage many young readers without any help from the accompanying technology. Just flip the pages, scan with your eyes, and read - old school. Each pair of pages highlights a different bug, with lots of vivid imagery. As for the webcam 3D technology, the trick, first time out, is figuring out the best place to position the webcam, a matter of trial and error. Once you get the hang of it, BUGS 3D becomes a very different experience from that of reading a book. When the webcam hits the page properly, you see on screen an image that incorporates the bug into whatever else is being captured by the camera - you, your chair, your bedroom. Then, by positioning a little plastic thing called an 'i' paddle on the page, the audio is activated, narrating part of the text while a different image of the bug appears on screen. The combination of physical and virtual, tactile and onscreen, makes this a unique and entertaining experience.