the.com/osmo
the game night startup that taught tablets to watch you play with real blocks.
means osmo is a line of educational games that use a mirror-and-camera clip so an ipad can see physical pieces on the table and react to them.
from founded in 2013 by ex-google and ex-cooliris engineers who wanted screens to stop isolating kids and start reflecting the real world back at them, literally with an angled mirror over the front camera.
acquired bybyju's bought it for 120 million, 2019
the tricka plastic mirror redirects the camera downward
reachused in over 40,000 classrooms worldwide
for instance
osmo tangram — physical shapes solved by watching the tabletop live
osmo words — letter tiles spell answers the camera reads aloud
osmo coding awbie — block-based coding puzzles for kids as young as 5