The example I find the most compelling, however, is a photo essay about German farmers that are worried their country’s bid to host the Olympics could spell trouble for their coveted farmland. Other augmented features in the magazine include an illustration that becomes 3D, an interview with additional exclusive quotes and a crossword puzzle whose answers appear when viewed through the smartphone. The cover of the magazine features a popular German TV personality who comes to life in an interactive video unlocked by holding a smartphone up to the magazine.
The magazine, hitting newsstands this Friday, features several AR experiences littered throughout its pages that can be activated using metaio’s junaio iPhone and Android apps. The experience is similar to Esquire’s augmented reality edition from November of 2009, but with advancements that have been made to smartphone AR technology, a desktop webcam is not needed to view the content. Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Germany’s largest national newswspaper, has partnered with Munich-based AR vendor metaio to provide subscribers with an immersive reading experience that hints at the future of publishing. While we are a long way seeing anything like this in the hands of the general public, a German newspaper has taken a small step in that direction with the release of a special augmented reality (AR) edition of its Friday magazine.
You can upgrade to a better subscription to allow more puzzle plays.There’s a memorable scene in the movie Minority Report where a man reads a futuristic newspaper with rich embedded multimedia updating live with breaking news. The free version allows 60 puzzle plays per month per account.
How many people can play my crossword puzzle? The word bank will be filled with the possible answers that you inserted and appears once you select a starting cell of a word, to insert the characters of the answer that you selected. Yes! This is a feature within the upgraded subscriptions. This will create highlighted cells that can be used to find the solution.Ĭan I add a wordbank to the crossword puzzle? You can add a hidden solution easily via the 'Settings' tab when working on creating your crossword puzzle.
The manual mode can be recognised and switched to via the icon.ĭo the crossword puzzles have a hidden solution option?
I love building crossword puzzles myself, can I?įor you as the hobbyist/newspaper/magazine hardcore puzzle maker, that loves building a crossword puzzle yourself, you can! There is a separate crossword builder that you can use manually to insert the words in the grid yourself. Everything is customisable and there is no direct link to whatsoever. Yes! You can adjust the colors, cell backgrounds, fonts and a lot of individual settings to make sure the crossword puzzle fits your goal perfectly.īelow you see an interactive example crossword puzzle that shows how cleanly the puzzles show after embedding. You do need an upgraded account for this. Yes! This is the core goal of, creating online, interactive and embeddable puzzles :). Yes! This is possible within any of the upgraded subscriptions and a lot of fun! The crossword puzzle will synchronise correct answers in real-time to the other players on the team.Ĭan the puzzle be embedded on my website?
You can add forced registration to see individual results (per question, in real-time), or add a completion message with a 'collect user info' option that allows you to export the submitted puzzle completions.Ĭan students solve the crossword puzzle together? Tracking (student) puzzle results is a cool feature that has built in for upgraded subscriptions. How do students share /submit their completed puzzle? Luckily, the crossword algorithm does all that hard thinking for us! :)Īdding words revolved around a theme is a very logical and a nice choice to make sure your words cross in context as well as visually :) From that point on you can create more intersections between words and expand your puzzle grid. To create a crossword puzzle, you need to have at least two words since the words need to be 'crossed'.