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The Augmented Reality Of PS3's Wonderbook
Update: Screens and trailer. Sony took a very long respite during its press conference to show off a new augmented reality experience using the PS Move called Wonderbook.
The Wonderbook is a flat platform that when used in conjunction with your PS3 and its PS3 Eye camera, uses augmented reality to expand what would normally be a book to include graphics and other visuals on your TV. Sony has done a similar thing with its EyePet series, also by Sony's London Studios.
Wonderbook has brought on Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling to create Book of Spells for the Wonderbook.
A painfully long game demo showed off people "reading" Book of Spells and performing its incantations along with the Move peripheral to create spells and cause the Wonderbook to come to life.
As is natural with peripherals like the Move, there is always some error, and the demo that was already dragging on took even longer when the woman demoing Book of Spells had particular trouble opening a door. Reading a book suddenly got inextricably harder. For some reason.
Wonderbook will aim to improve everything you've always hated about reading when it releases this holiday.
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