Osmo Monster lets you interact with a cartoon character through an iPad.
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Osmo Monster lets kids interact with cartoon characters on iPad

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kids love television cartoons, but they can’t actually interact with the characters in them. Osmo is changing that with the launch of Osmo Monster, a “mixed reality” experience where children use an iPad to interact with a monster and bring their physical drawings to life.

The product, which introduces kids to Mo the Monster, is the latest in a series of award-winning titles that use the iPad to teach children how to think. Pramod Sharma, the chief executive of Osmo in Palo Alto, Calif., told GamesBeat that it took three years to create Osmo Monster. (Sharma is speaking on augmented reality in a panel on Monday at our GamesBeat 2016 event).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.