Happy App Friday!
Create origami, with real paper, and bring them to life in augmented reality with My Paper World, and enjoy an animated comic with the Sagas of Starsville #1. Plus, who is behind the popular TikTok app?
Garry Froehlich
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My Paper World – AR origami
by Signal Space Inc.
Learn origami with My Paper World, where kids use their creations to solve problems, think flexibly, and make projects with environmental themes. Add depth to the learning experience through augmented reality. Once creations are complete, scan them to see what they unlock. Don’t have origami paper at home? No problem. Standard letter/A4 paper is fine. We can’t wait to see how families use this app – sounds fun!
The Sagas of Starsville #1
by Ronnie Gunter
The Sagas of Starsville #1 tells the fantasy themed story of the founding of Starsville in an animated comic book format authored and illustrated by Ronnie Gunter through a publishing service called TaleSpring that allows authors to create and publish their book apps. Children read the panels of the comic book (or have them read to them) and can advance the story using buttons that play animations or add additional dialogue. The app feels like a first attempt by an indie developer, so it doesn’t quite have the polish of the bigger development houses, but the concept is interesting and I look forward to seeing where they take it.
Kids and TikTok
“The video-sharing app by the Chinese-owned Bytedance, the world’s most valuable startup, has a younger audience than Facebook, an algorithm that learns you, and different ideas about free speech.”
TikTok appears to be aggressively expanding (spending millions on advertising around the world), so it’s worth learning more about the company behind it and their practices.
