Almost immediately, a client arrives-a bear who is missing her pet cat. When you first start up the app, you’ll meet Alto, a little robot assistant who welcomes you to your detective agency. Now, on to the app! At your office, you can browse your wall of trophies, visit sad clients, and check your case files. The maps are made of sturdy cardboard and fold up easily, and are chock-full of fun details, like famous landmarks and anthropomorphic animal characters (which you may recognize from Osmo Pizza Co.). The Sydney map includes the opera house, Sydney Fish Market, and a whale shark. One map shows the whole world on one side and Osmo Town on the other, and the rest are all real-world cities like Paris, Cairo, and Rio de Janeiro. The magnifying glass is a fairly small lens on a long handle. Inside the suitcase is a magnifying glass (in a plastic tray) and four double-sided maps, each with a little tab that matches the various stickers on the suitcase. In this case, the physical components come in a small cardboard suitcase covered with “stickers” showing various locations around the world. The Osmo games have two parts: a free app that runs on the iPad and some physical components that the app can “read” using the iPad’s camera. Your tools come in a little cardboard “suitcase.” Photo: Jonathan H. The set retails for $39, and is available directly from Osmo or online retailers like Amazon you will also need the Osmo base, which holds your iPad upright and has a small mirror that fits over the camera so that the app can see the space in front of the iPad. The latest title in Osmo’s iPad toy/app hybrid series is Detective Agency, where kids will get to help solve crimes by searching for clues around the world. My daughter locates the barn in Osmo Detective.
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