United KingdomThe Gruffalo returns to the deep, dark woods with a state of the art augmented reality app! Children can interact with all The Gruffalo characters in 3D – waving, stomping, flying, dancing and roaring - as they appear magically beside them. These wonderful moments can be filmed and photographed to cherish later and share on social media with the hashtag #GruffaloSpotters. The Gruffalo Spotter 2 has been designed for exclusive use at Forestry England sites. The app is free, has no in app purchases and requires downloading before your visit. **We recommend you fully charge your device before your visit. To get the longest battery life whilst on the trail you could consider turning Airplane Mode on and Bluetooth off.** The Gruffalo Spotter 2 has been developed for iOS 11 and later on iPhone (6s and above), iPad Pro and iPad 2017+. Previous versions of these devices will not be fully supported. Please email [email protected] if you experience any technical difficulties. Find your nearest trail at www.forestryengland.uk/gruffalo-spotters Brought to you by Magic Light Pictures and Forestry England, The Gruffalo Spotter 2 app is cutting edge technology developed and animated by the award-winning Nexus Studios. Based on The Gruffalo, the best-selling picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, families follow clues on an interactive trail and track signs for their favourite characters. The self-led trail is packed with fun facts about the forest animals with fantastic activities along the way. Once families have spotted the characters, they can use the app to bring the 3D character animations to life, interact with the characters and film and take photographs of the experience. Videos and photos are automatically added to the device’s gallery. Taking family forest walks to new heights, the app mixes new technology with the real world, encouraging children to get exploring, firing their imaginations and giving them a forest experience like no other. A Gruffalo Spotters 2 trail pack will be available to buy on site which includes an activity leaflet full of fun facts and activities, Gruffalo Mask and paws, a nature spotters game, stickers as well as a crayon and pencil. For further details please visit www.forestryengland.uk/gruffalo-spotters www.magiclightpictures.com www.nexusstudios.com
Still crashes
Constant crashes all the time!
United KingdomUnfit for purpose, nice idea, good animations
This is a lovely idea, but unfortunately it is not fit for purpose. It crashes frequently, has difficulty picking up the on screen motion and resets itself if someone walks in front of the camera. This makes it almost impossible to use with any success and turned a pleasant walk through the forest into a fraught and upset-children-filled drama. In addition the children of course want to see what is on the screen, not be in front of it. There is an automatic play option, which is helpful, but it should just play through without interruption or delay. All in all it was a disappointment, which is such a shame because a lot of work has clearly gone into the animation. It also stop working if you lose the signal, which is obviously quite often in the forest. A real shame.
United KingdomNice animations
The app worked for me at Moors Valley Country Park. It didn’t crash and I captured videos and photos. It didn’t always react to movements to move the dialog on but putting it in auto play was fine.
United KingdomSad children
We arrived with excitement only to be left with disappointment. It just doesn’t work. Everyone was saying the same thing. Left the children disappointed
United KingdomGreat idea but poor execution
The concept is great but unfortunately the app does not work particularly well. The AR is too temperamental and we just could not get it to work on 3 of the 5 locations on our walk. The allows the user to auto play the animations, it is a shame we could not force the app to play the animations manually for each location. At the end of a walk we had a very upset toddler who could not see the Gruffalo at the end of the trail! The app really struggled with bright light and / or dirty sign. I suspect the app was unable to distinguish contrasting pixels robustly enough.
United KingdomSlow & tedious: Moors Valley Country Park
App is incredibly slow and kept crashing, very slow and tedious, same as others that son wanted to see the characters with him so selfie mode needs to be introduced. Also when he was doing what the characters tell to do, jump, stomp etc to wake them, make them dance or what ever, despite him moving lots only one of them moved, he got bored this part needs to be more sensitive to movement.
United KingdomRubbish app
The app is rubbish, keeps crashing and cutting off, one very upset little girl 😡
United Kingdom
Bug fixes to resolve crashing issues.
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