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Goodnight Lad, Augmented Reality Children’s Books
On April 2nd, 2014, Hidden Worlds launched their Kickstarter campaign for Goodnight Lad, an exciting new way to read books. Using an augmented reality app, the book comes to life with 3D animations that bring a whole new world to the story. This is a remarkable new experience and is sure to have kids bouncing in their chairs with excitement to discover the next page.
A sample app, and a page from the book, has been provided to display the technology in action. The sample page shows a tireless child banging drums, partying, and being tickled by his loving parents. By pointing the app at the book the scene comes to life in a convincing way that will drop your jaw and leave you amazed. The pages show the excited boy dancing, jumping, and playing the drums, leaves blowing in the breeze, and even a small car that drives on a road that appears glued to the edge of the page.
The book itself is a story that parents will understand all too well, of a boy who should be going to bed, but just doesn’t get tired. It features a great rhythm and rhyme that fits the fun nature of the story. It tells of two parents that travel around the world trying to wear him out until, against their best efforts, he turns into a beast. Just when it appears all is lost they get him back to bed, just in the nick of time.
The Kickstarter funds will be used to finish the animations, print the book, and deliver copies to backers doors. There are a variety of fun backing levels that include matching pajamas with the boy in the book, and even the opportunity to have yourself immortalized in 3D visible on the back cover.
Check out the project here: Goodnight Lad Kickstarter or download the Android Demo and visit the Website.
My goal is to use technology to encourage kids to read.
– Bradley Grimm, Creator of Goodnight Lad
Wow, what a great app! I am ALL for things that help to get our littles reading and working on their skills!
Me too. I love things that enhance basic skills with technology rather than those that use technology to replace those skills.
I love when they come up with new ideas to get the kids interested in reading! What a great app this is!
thanks,
Mitch
I agree! My favorite apps encourage learning- especially reading!
This is so awesome! I bet it would become one of them bedtime rituals that my kids would request every single night.
I’m betting you are right! Kids seem to get a kick out of 3D so this is a great win!
this is very interesting… I’m just THAT mom that won’t let her kids touch my phone.. cause it’s ‘mine’ 😉 Too many ‘accidents’ w the first kid.. I’ve learned my lesson.
Actually, so am I! I bought them tablets- they break them, they loose them. And my phone stays untouched!
I wish this type of thing had been available when my girls were toddlers. They probably would have engaged with it better.
I’m with you. My kids are a lot older. This definitely would have been fun to have back when they were little!
Bedtime struggles are a common thing around here. We have a 3 year old who loves to stall. An interactive story at bedtime may help!
It’s definitely worth a shot. I know how much bedtime struggles can be frustrating! It would be great if this helped!
Wow, this sounds like fun! 3D all with an app? How fun!
Pretty cool, right?
What a wonderful read and activity for little minds, I just love this! I know a little someone who would adore this, thanks for sharing!
I’m glad you found it! I’d love to hear how it works out!
I love that app. How fun. I’m going to download it for my kids. Thanks for letting me know.
Enjoy! Let me know how they like it!
How cute, what will app developers think of next!
I agree! It really is amazing to me how many apps truly are brilliant and useful!
This looks like a great app! My daughter loves these book apps where she can follow the story along.
My kids always did too- of course that was mostly books on a CD that you could listen to while reading the hard copy- nothing compared to what is available now!
This book sounds like a cute story and pretty much like our daughter. haha We love reading in this house.
Reading is so important! This is a cute story for sure!
I love the story! My kids turn into monsters too just before bedtime. What a coincidence!
So do mine- at 8 and almost 13. My oldest likes sleep though! (15)
I love bringing technology into kids lives this way. I love the illustrations, too!
The illustrations really are very well done!
Anything to get kids excited to read is a win in my book. Ha! see what I did there? Not even on purpose!! But for real- some kids are a hard sell for reading. ANyTHING that helps them love it!
What an awesome project! I definitely need to give to it. My husband has created some augmented reality children’s apps. I love this technology!
This looks so cute! I’m going to check it out for my boys.
One of my favorite things about technology is how easy and enjoyable it makes it for chiidren to learn to read
What a fun app! I love apps that are fun and educational (and I love the “Goodnight…” books.)
That is such a neat way to bring a book to life! I hope they get all the funding they need to make the whole project happen.
This looks like such a cute book! I will have to pick it up!
My two year old already loves reading on the iPad Mini! This would be a great addition.
People are doing some cool things with thwse kick starter campaigns.
I think so too. I always try to support the ones that I really like with posts like this one. I can’t always contribute to everyone with money but this way hopefully I can help them find interested backers!
oooo that looks so neat! I’m going to head over and check out the Kickstarter now!!
With today’s society being so into technology I love that this book is following suit. It’s a really cute story.
This looks really really neat!! I’ll have to try this out with my kiddos. SO fun!
Wow, this would be a great way to encourage kids to want to read even more. Kiddo would’ve been extremely excited about this when he were younger. This will definitely be amazing!
THIS is a prime example of technology being put to good use. I’m so happy to see apps like these.
Definitely an awesome app! My son would love it, I’ll have to look into it.
My niece loves reading books on my sister’s app. She really likes the ones where she can get the book physically and it has a companion app to go along with it.
This is a really cute idea. And yes, with our almost 3 year old- it would definitely relate to my house.