Another impressive jump in my book production is connected with the idea "Never stop rethinking".
I was thinking about the AR feature: when you point the mobile phone camera at the image and see the "living picture" like in movies about Harry Potter. I would be honest... Firstly, I thought it won't be so difficult to make it real. Such a simple feature!
I had all the content: photos for AR targets, video-content to show in augmented reality. I just need to make it works!
In reality, it took ~6 months to make it real.
In the video, I am talking about the whole project and some specific aspects of my work on the fourth edition with augmented reality
I tried different ways, but in the end, I found a partner start-up called Visionar developing its project for the same purpose and sharing SDK for creating mobile applications. I used it to release my iOS app named the same way as the book.
After testing, I found that to make the book usable with AR it should be redesigned. Because targets can't be small, they should be larger to use easily. I redesigned the book one more time. It became a giant. But I love it.
I like to showcase this book and show how AR works to other people. When people see it, they are acting like "WOW, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE, THAT'S MIND-BLOWING".
I love the final edition of the project I started. Later I used the same technology, SDK and app in the next bookset, published a year later.
In this video, you can see the design of the spreads of the book
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This project is a part of the bigger story of how I became an independent publisher, you can read it here đđź