Augmented Reality – Of Death and a Banana Skin

Some pages of Of Death And A Banana Skin feature Augmented Reality. AR is technology which brings a page to life with a tablet or smartphone. The camera in the device locks on to an image to trigger video, animations, readings or music.

1. Download the free CXOCARD app to your smartphone or tablet by scanning this QR code. You’ll be prompted to go to the CXOCARD website where you can choose IOS or Android. Alternatively, simply search for CXOCARD in the App Store.
2. Hold your device’s camera over one of the images in the book to trigger the Augmented Reality video. Continue to hold the camera in front of the trigger image. If you lose contact with the tigger, move the camera back into position to pick up where you left off. Hold the camera quite close to the image to fill the screen.

Current live AR pages

The Stick.

Reading with music (The Middlesmoor Waltz from the album ‘Music From A Small Island‘) and photomontage.

Scan the centre area of the front cover.

Sumer Is Icumen In.

Song (Sumer Is Icumen In from the album ‘When Summer Comes Again‘) with animated playback of images.

Scan the centre area of page 40 with the female dancer.

Of Death And A Banana Skin On Ilkley Moor.

Live reading by Simon.

Scan just the banana on the title page.

Fireflies.

Song (Fireflies from the album ‘Laughing With The Moon‘) with animated playback of illustration.

Scan the upper area of page 80.

Pigeon Pi.

Live reading with animated playback of illustration.

Scan the pigeon at the foot of page 60.

Red Kite.

Reading with animated playback of illustration.

Scan the centre area of page 44 with the wing of the kite.

The Oracle.

Animated playback of illustration with music (The Dargason from Simon’s album The English Mandolin).

Scan the centre area of the image on page 31.

Queen Victoria Street.

Animated playback of illustration with music (Ayre by Henry Purcell from Simon’s album The English Mandolin).

Scan the upper area of page 29.

Fantasia On The Yorkshire Anthem.

Animated playback of illustrations with music.

Scan the rocks on page 16.

Further Adventures Of The Stick.

Reading with music (The Middlesmoor Waltz).

Scan the centre area of the rear cover.

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