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Lumo Projector Turns Kids Rooms Into Bradbury's Veldt
Lumo is a projection system that turns flat surfaces into interactive surfaces; perfect for those days when the floor is lava!
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Lumo brings magic back to childhood by creating an interactive surface that's big enough to transform any room into an interactive play space. Childhood is a magical, active, imaginative time. With Lumo, kids not only play inside the game, they create their own interactive worlds using their own artwork and imaginations.From simple, beautiful effects like rippling ponds full of fish, to games like Pong, Air Hockey, Ballerina Dance, Greedy Gators, Toypocalypse, Dance or Die, Grow, and Collect the Bling; Lumo gives kids amazing game experiences in the real world.They can play alone or with friends and family. They can even modify games and effects with their own artwork.
Lumo lets you design your own games. We’ve included easy content creation tools for kids and artists; no coding required. Choose the type of game or effect you want to make, and customize it with your own art. Want to make a soccer game? No problem! Draw your own field, net, and ball and save it to your Lumo...
The ST:TNG holodeck is the ultimate in sciene-fictional gaming environments; it appeared in 1987. However, don't forget the first science-fictional interactive, participatory environment - Ray Bradbury's The Veldt, in his Happylife Home.
The nursery was silent. It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon. The walls were blank and two dimensional. Now, as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an African veldt appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in color reproduced to the final pebble and bit of straw. The ceiling above them became a deep sky with a hot yellow sun.
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