![]() ![]() ![]() You’ll need an Osmo base to play, as well as the free app, available from the Apple App Store. (iPad not included) Image: Osmo What’s Includedįirst up, here’s what’s included in the MindRacers package, which will retail for $59 (without the base) or $79 (with base): I had a chance to talk to Pramod Sharma, CEO and co-founder of Osmo, about the new game. It’s a game that brings Hot Wheels cars to virtual life. Today, Osmo introduced a new product in partnership with Mattel: MindRacers. Using that camera, the software is able to recognize various accessories that you put on the table surface in front of the iPad, allowing you to play games that teach math, drawing, programming, music, and more. In case you’re not familiar with Osmo already, there’s a base that holds your tablet upright and a small mirror that attaches to the front-facing camera. All told, Osmo has published 10 games.Osmo has been one of my favorite tech toy companies in recent years, combining digital and analog play in clever ways. The company’s first product was recognized as one of Time Magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 2014, and it continues to be a favorite of teachers, parents, and kids alike. It has used physical, interactive play to teach kids how to code with Coding and to spark creativity with Masterpiece and Monster. Osmo used the same system in previous games like Osmo Pizza Co., where kids learn how to run a pizza shop and develop entrepreneurial skills. Sharma said the game was Osmo’s biggest project yet. You can also do single-player challenges. The game has eight different worlds where you can race in competitive or cooperative modes. It’s your mind and racing coming together.” You have to look at what your competition is doing and react to it dynamically. “We consider it a learning game because it is dynamic. “It’s a lot like Mario Kart, in terms of how you have to think about the competition,” Sharma said. (There are 32 discs in all, and Osmo’s vision-based artificial intelligence can recognize the images on all of them.) By the end of the 90-second race, there are dozens of discs in front of the iPad, and Osmo’s vision software recognizes them all. You can also throw something that impedes the other car. For instance, a player can throw down a boost disc, and the car will go faster. ![]()
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