Poor website. Till I read the comments here, I could not figure out in 30 seconds what the product does except that it uses artificial intelligence.
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? How much are a mirror that you have to fashion yourself, a fisheye lens, and an iPad stand going to cost you? And after you've found all that you still don't have the games. $58 shipped to you seems pretty reasonable to me.
My thoughts exactly $58 is a decent price, there are a lot of scrooges in here. The argument of "geez i can build this in a day and the materials will cost me less than 10 bucks" are tiresome and stupid. If you value your time at more than $2 an hour its a good price.
You do realize this is called Hacker News, right? People in here enjoy hacking things. We don't all consider the utility of every activity based on how many dollars per hour we value our time.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't watch videos unless I'm first convinced by the text that they're worth watching. I doubt I'm alone in this. Why is it so hard to put one or two sentences that just tell me what you're talking about?
It's a safe bet that this product is not for you. Constructive comments are one thing, but anger over the fact that the value prop of a kid's game doesn't resonate with you is...awkward.
I"m not angry, although I am confused and mildly irritated that stuff keeps making it to the front page of HN where the page just doesn't tell you what it is.
As for the product not being for me, kids don't buy this stuff themselves. Their parents buy it. As the electronics-happy parent of a small child, I'm pretty sure I'd be right smack in the middle of the target demographic for this product if I had some clue of what it actually did.
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#64OK, seriously, why is it so hard for companies to just tell me what their product is? I guess it's some sort of augmented reality thing? With a clip-on mirror? (???) And a standard Tangram game? "For the first time, fun knows no limits." Did somebody redesign zombo.com for the 21st century and try to attach a product to it? There are so many beautiful product pages out there which completely fail at the basic task of…
"Fun with no limits" is a stick and a paper hat. Sometimes I wonder what other people's childhoods were like.
After reading their site and watching their video my chief question was whether this thing exists, or if you can preorder it and they'll start thinking about whether it's feasible or not, like many kickstarter-type things.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't watch videos unless I'm first convinced by the text that they're worth watching. I doubt I'm alone in this. Why is it so hard to put one or two sentences that just tell me what you're talking about?
Are you guys serious? The giant picture of the child's hand on the puzzle and a picture of that same puzzle on the ipad didn't give you a clue??? I'm sure other people have trouble drawing meaning from images but I believe it is a small percentage.
It tells me that it has something to do with puzzles and augmented reality. But that's a pretty broad category, and the page doesn't narrow it down for me at all. It certainly doesn't tell me how it manages to make it so that "fun knows no limits."
If it's so clear to you, perhaps you could explain it instead of just making implicit insults?
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't watch videos unless I'm first convinced by the text that they're worth watching. I doubt I'm alone in this. Why is it so hard to put one or two sentences that just tell me what you're talking about?
There's probably also many people that won't bother reading much about the product, and are reached much easier through a video. In truth, their blurb There's digital gaming. There's real world fun. And then there's Osmo, a magical experience that merges the real and virtual worlds to defy the boundaries of play. is the few sentences you were looking for. It just appears to be useless marketing speech because their p…
I'm skeptical that any product can be hard to explain in a useful way with just text. What exactly do you do with it? What's an example use case? What's the mirror for? All of these things can be answered in text.
However, given that I don't understand what it does, perhaps I'm not qualified to say that here.
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#67I am definitely getting this for my daughter.
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#68OK, seriously, why is it so hard for companies to just tell me what their product is? I guess it's some sort of augmented reality thing? With a clip-on mirror? (???) And a standard Tangram game? "For the first time, fun knows no limits." Did somebody redesign zombo.com for the 21st century and try to attach a product to it? There are so many beautiful product pages out there which completely fail at the basic task of…
It's one of those trick sites, where you never realize you can scroll down (thank you fullscreen image trend). Go back to the site, scroll. First thing you'll see...
Setup is a snap. Simply mount Osmo over your iPad's front‑facing camera. Reflective Artificial Intelligence and a built‑in mirror recognize and respond to your every real‑world move.
Then it goes on to describe the available games, and has other key information that's well summarized. I watched the video, and didn't realize you could scroll until I read your comment, and went back to the site a second time.
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#69It's a neat concept - a nice, polished AR kit. The actual tangram concept is a bit disappointing though - dragging simple objects around on a flat surface is already something the iPad excels at. In this case it feels like it's somewhat obsoleted by modern touch-screens. Obviously there are cases where touch-screens fail, but simple tangram puzzles work just fine with them. I'd be interested in seeing this expanded t…
It's not really AR, just reading things through a mirror and camera. It's not actually showing you any reality. Just sayin'.
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#70This is a great product. To me, the video (while marketing) showed exactly how kids would react to something like this. Nowadays, all kids know how to use an iPad so throwing in the physical pieces as well brings back the "legacy" way of playing. Plus, it has a nice teaching aspect and i could imagine a dual iPad "versus" mode to encourage a little competition.