http://needgap.com Find your customers by the problem you are solving for them. Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:18:00 +0000 Imagine for a moment, the world as imagined by J.R.R Tolkien, George R.R Martin, H.G. Wells etc. coming to life before our eyes when the pages of 'The Lord of the Rings' or 'A Song of Ice and Fire' or 'The War of the Worlds' etc. are seen via smartphone or via Virtual Reality headsets.<div><br></div><div>I feel, we can breathe a new life to the even century old fictional books by making use of the advancement of the Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technologies. The authors mentioned above are world builders first and authors next. Their worlds, deserves to be seen with fresh technologies as and when it is available.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, in the age of instant gratification and limited attention span an interactive experience when consuming content from the physical books should go in a long way to improve reading habits according to me. So, there seems to be need gap for AR, VR services which could make books interactive.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div> 2 points posted by Abishek Muthian /problems/14-making-books-interactive-via-ar-and-vr-books-augmentedreality 14 Sun, 01 Sep 2019 18:02:00 +0000 Audiobooks are a great medium for enjoying a story when occupied by some other task, i.e. driving or cooking. Since most people can read much faster than the speed language is spoken at, reading text is the preferred method if one can apply their full attention. Why can't I listen to an audiobook while driving home, then pick up where I left off in the ebook?<div>Existing solutions for this experience require users to buy the audiobook and ebook separately on different platforms which do not sync with each other, meaning a lot of time spent flipping through pages in the ebook (the number of which is completely unknown as it is not information available when listening to the audiobook) to find where to resume reading.</div> 1 points posted by bzlister /problems/283-listening-to-an-audiobook-and-resume-with-ebook-books-audio 283 Sun, 15 Aug 2021 01:00:00 +0000 I download lots of books and start reading them. Then I forget about them.<br><br>It’s like buying physical books, getting a big pile and only reading the books at the top. I need a system that reminds me every week to read each book.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br> 0 points posted by Serialist /problems/398-do-you-forget-to-read-all-your-books-publishing-books 398 Sat, 25 Jun 2022 08:30:00 +0000