PSP Brings Books to Life, Makes Learning Fun Again
With the PlayStation Portable continuing to make it’s mark in the portable gaming arena, it’s fairly easy to overlook it’s value as an educational tool. Enter Connected Education, a Sony U.K. agency tasked with promoting the educational benefits of utilizing Sony products with innovative techniques to enrich learning experiences in the classroom.
Making use of the PSP’s USB camera, Connected Education’s Second Sight software enables the PSP to recognize “sema codes”, tiny bar code-like images with embedded URL’s. Taking advantage of the PSP’s multimedia capabilities, these sema codes trigger the launch of media related to the material at hand, including audio, video, and 3D augmented images. Whether educational applications of this tech will have the type of impact proponents hope for is still up for debate, but the real issue here is if we’ll see any of this implemented into future games. Probably not anytime soon, but at least we’ll sleep well knowing today’s youth have unprecedented access to the next generation in pop-up books. Check it out below!
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5 Responses to “PSP Brings Books to Life, Makes Learning Fun Again”
That really cool, here I was thinking more along the lines of a textbook be upload at school for the kiddies to take home like the digital comics to slight animate them and save some trees. Or just plain text. I like this approach as well.
@natiej85 that’s what i was thinking but i guess this is just as good
psp move.
Really though, that’s awesome.
That is really fantastic. As an educator, I think that would be such an incredible tool to use in class. Here’s the problem – if Sony doesn’t offer a PSP/Camera bundle for schools (like book retailers and such do), I don’t see this doing anything. This is even more so in districts that are cutting a ridiculous amount of staff due to budget issues.
Granted, I live in Ohio where our unconstitutional way of funding school districts strangles our schools, but I see this application being killed by districts or communities that won’t support it.
It’s really unfortunate that tools like these will most likely never see the light of day in a classroom…
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