Courtesy Kill Screen Children playing with Skylanders.
Game and toy companies have been attempting to breathe life into inanimate objects for generations. While gesture-based video games have recently won the hearts, minds and screen-gazing eyes of gamers worldwide, toy companies continue to pursue the elusive promise of Mixed Reality. Tech toys are often shrugged off as gimmicks. But that won’t stop the Gepettos of the world from tinkering with variations of online and offline playthings.
Enter two newcomers: Skylanders...
Game and toy companies have been attempting to breathe life into inanimate objects for generations. While gesture-based video games have recently won the hearts, minds and screen-gazing eyes of gamers worldwide, toy companies continue to pursue the elusive promise of Mixed Reality. Tech toys are often shrugged off as gimmicks. But that won’t stop the Gepettos of the world from tinkering with variations of online and offline playthings.
Enter two newcomers: Skylanders...
- 3/7/2012
- by Scott Wayne Indiana
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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