Wonderscope
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Augmented reality meets voice recognition in this extremely innovative app from the UK that was named a winner of the BolognaRagazzi Digital Award for 2019. The app lets you direct AR characters with your voice, using short verbal voice commands. In the story, you help Wonder, The Ringmaster of Wonder’s Land get ready for the carnival’s big opening. The idea is to solve problems by reading short sentences, like helping a stunt plane fly around your room. The app is based on three historical stunts, including those by Betty Bromage, an 88-year old grandmother that stood on the wings of an airborne bi-plane; Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s first stuntwoman; and Charles Blondin, the first person to tightrope walk across Niagara Falls. As you explore, you can meet, help, and talk to pioneers, inventors, and heroes. There's not a lot to actually do in this voice directed app other than to read short sentences. But the production quality merged with two emerging technologies (voice recognition and augmented reality) is certainly noteworthy. The app works on newer iPhones and iPads ( iOS 11 or better). The first adventure is free; others are offered for $4.99 each as IAP.
$5, iPad, iPhone
Teaches: spatial relations, logic, language, oral language
CTR Rating: 92%