What’s black and white, sounds like actress Kristen Bell, and is standing in your living room talking to your kids right now? Don’t worry, that’s just Genius the Panda, an augmented reality character from the Yakables app for iPhones and iPads.
Using ARKit to place the animated panda in the user’s physical environment, the app uses speech recognition to enable children to carry on a guided conversation with Genius the Panda.
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Image by IMAX/YouTube
The app presents a series of questions on screen about pandas, such as how much they weigh or what they eat. Children can then read the questions aloud, and Genius the Panda adorably provides the answers. Alternately, kids can also tap the on-screen questions instead of interacting with the virtual character verbally.
After a few rounds of interrogation, Genius the Panda flips the tables and quizzes the users on what they have learned. Kids can speak or select the correct answers from multiple choices.
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Image by IMAX/YouTube
Yakables is a product of ZooTube, LLC, a subsidiary of Conversive, Inc. The parent company makes the Conversive platform, a machine learning and natural language processing tool that enables organizations to build conversational apps with a drag-and-drop interface.
Those experiences can then be published on multiple channels, with Yakables demonstrating the platform’s AR implementation. The company has also demonstrated its capabilities in VR with the “Fall in Love” experience for Oculus.
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Source: Next Reality