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Magic cube conjures stories from thin air

By Emma Young

28 February 2004

A NOVEL interactive way to relate children’s stories has been developed by researchers in Singapore. The Magic Story Cube uses augmented reality technology, in which computer graphics are superimposed on the real world, to overlay an animated version of a story on top of a child’s traditional “magic cube”.

A standard magic cube is made up of a handful of smaller wooden or plastic cubes connected at various edges. These can be unfolded in a variety of ways to reveal a sequence of puzzles or different pictures. But now Adrian Cheok and Zhou ZhiYing at the Mixed Reality Lab at…

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