Narnia
XR-based Immersive Reading Platform to Enhance Gen Alpha’s Digital Literacy
Gen Alpha, who grew up experiencing technological advancements from a young age, requires progressive learning that stimulates creativity and maximizes emotions rather than imparting only traditional knowledge. Transitioning from passive traditional education to active learning, Narnia proposes a new immersive reading experience based on XR technology. Explore a completely new reading experience for your child with Narnia.
Background
There has been a recent controversy surrounding the literacy of Gen Alpha, spreading like wildfire regardless of social media or press coverage. Before the debate about specific vocabulary, there was also a debate about spelling and grammar.
Problem
In 2018, the digital literacy of Korean adolescents was recorded at the lowest level among OECD member countries, indicating that a significant portion of Korean adolescents lack the ability to distinguish between facts and opinions and do not receive education on the subjectivity and bias of information.
* Source : OECD
Insight
Solution
Narnia
: XR-based Immersive Reading Platform to Enhance Gen Alpha’s Digital Literacy
Traditional reading is a static act of reading with the eyes, but with Narnia, you can experience sensory-stimulating reading through immersive content. With the heightened realism of immersive content, stories within books feel as if they actually happened, and interaction within the content allows reading to expand into a realm of enjoyable play and experience beyond just reading.
* Illustration image source : Disney
Scenario Video
This is a scenario video of 8-year-old user persona 'Kim Minjun' using Narnia. Let's explore the core features of Narnia along with Minjun!
(1) Explore Landing Page & reading contents
(2) Immersive reading experience in XR
(3) Create an interactive immersive virtual environment
(4) Re-create a fairy tale space through generative AI
(5) Communicate with a character in the fairy tale through multimodal AI
(1) Explore Landing Page & reading contents
(2) Immersive reading experience in XR
▶︎ Toolbar
① Audio
② Highlighting
③ Search
④ Bookmark
▶︎ Turning the page
▶︎ Highlighting sentences
▶︎ Bookmark a page
(3) Create an interactive immersive virtual environment
With each page turn, the virtual environment changes to one that corresponds to the context, enabling a reading experience that maximizes immersion and realism.
(4) Re-create a fairy tale space through generative AI
Children can unleash their imagination through generative AI to create their own special spaces within fairy tales. Simply indicate the desired area with your hand and tell us the image you want to create.
(5) Communicate with a character in the fairy tale through multimodal AI
Children can enhance their imagination and critical thinking skills by asking the protagonist questions via voice about parts of the book that they don't understand well or about aspects beyond what is directly mentioned in the book.
▶︎ Character toolbar
① Conversational AI voice control
② Real-time conversation caption
③ Change character
Hand Gesture
Children consistently maintain the use of gestures that are commonly used in real life, such as turning pages or highlighting paragraphs with fingers.
① Pinch : Select the target element & Enable the toolbar
② Pinch and drag : Swipe & Highlight sentences
③ Pinch and rotate : Turning the page
④ Draw a circle with the index finger : Select an area to create images with Gen AI
⑤ Shaking : Greet
Explore a completely new reading experience
for your child with Narnia
Designed by Seunghee Kim
2024.04
SDM Intensive Course