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A picture book that really 'pops'
Created: 07/18/2006
Video description: CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman's latest stop on his "Road Trip 2006" was at the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HITLab), where he got to see something truly magical: a Magic Book. Used with a virtual-reality headset, this picture book comes to life as it enables the reader to enter the physical environments of the story's characters.

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