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Ukrainian-American startup 'revived' children's book: how it looks and works

Ukrainian-American startup published a famous Ukrainian fairy tale in an unusual format. Gingerbread man comes to life right while re-reading a fairy tale, writes "Voice of America".

Here is the book "Kolobok". Looks like a regular edition.

But if you put your smartphone on the text, the fairy tale comes to life.

This is called augmented reality format and works using a special application on the phone. It, along with the book, was developed by Ukrainians - manager from Vinnitsa Alexander Muzyka and programmer Oleg Koval, who lives in the USA, in the state of Connecticut.

The idea of ​​the application to Alexander Muzyka suggested his little son.

“I read fairy tales, unfortunately, this rarely happened before, and one day my son asked: dad, why when we watch a cartoon, Kolobok comes to life on the TV screen, but here he doesn’t come to life? Then I scoured the Internet and found such technology as augmented reality. And since that time, it was 5-6 years ago, the technology has grown,” says Alexander.

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Later, Alexander met Oleg, who worked in the field of IT in the United States, and they founded a joint startup.

“We use AR augmented reality technology using Unity. We are making a mobile application for Android and Apple devices. The technology works in such a way that it activates the camera on your mobile device and when the camera sees some kind of drawing, it recognizes it as a code and completes the picture on the screen of your phone,” says Oleg.

The tale has musical accompaniment and professional dubbing. If you stop the cursor on the image of the hero and click, he will begin to speak or sing - for now in English and Russian. But now the project is being adapted into 12 more languages, including Ukrainian. This is what Ukrainians do in Canada.

“It is very important to have Ukrainian books so that children do not forget the Ukrainian language. I think the project is very interesting. We also planned to create a Ukrainian alphabet with various animals,” says project manager in Canada Tatiana Gutnik.

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A fairy tale with augmented reality was published in 2018 in Ukraine. And in 2020 they launched in America. The developers say: the goal of the project is to teach children to use gadgets usefully and to draw attention to Ukrainian literature.

“The phone is not just for playing games. Our project helps to combine technology with the classical form of raising children, because the phone is not the ultimate goal, but the book, and the child begins to perceive technology differently,” says Alexander.

Now the book can be bought both in Ukraine and in the USA. Oleg and Alexander say they plan to publish other Ukrainian fairy tales in this format.

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