Bibli-o-mat
Read realistic, high resolution, interactable books from the collections from major libraries hosted at archive.org. Instantly generate a scale model of any book in the public domain collections. Turn the pages with your joystick. Search by subject, title, and author. Specify specific collections to search. Examine details with a magnifying glass. Books near the table will respond to gravity, but if they are taken away from the table they will float in the air to reduce arm fatigue. Read in the Library of Congress, at the beach, or in the mountains.
Bibli-o-mat lets you pull any public domain book from Archive.org's Open Library and handle them in life-size 3-dimensional form. You can read them surrounded by the Library of Congress Reading Room or other environments of you choose. This is being actively developed. Your support will allow us to add the many planned features that we have on our agenda. Feature requests and bug reports welcome!
Search for public domain books in by Subject, Title or Author and select which collections to search through.
Read a 3D representation of the book produced to the scale you designate.
Adjusting the anti-aliasing can compensate for artifacts caused by limited headset resolution.
Books will be affected by gravity when near the table, but if carried away from the table will float in space.
Grabbing a book with your right hand will make it the active book for page turning.
In VR, the right thumb stick will turn the pages of the active book.
The left thumb stick will move you about the room.
The A button will toggle the visibility of the search panel.
The right hand has a pointer for interacting with the search panel.
For efficient memory use, the books retain the several pages before and after the one you are reading.
Page turning may be slow if the next pages are still downloading.
Opening too many books in one session can cause the app to crash.
Multiple books has been enabled. You can read up to four books at once! Grasp a book with your right hand to make it the "active" book and turn its pages.
Use Settings to change environment and anti-alias level of book pages. A higher level of anti-aliasing uses less memory. Inactive books default to maximum anti-alias to conserve memory.
- This experience is designed for VR and the Meta Quest 2.
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Compatible with: Quest
Last Updated: Nov 5, 2022
Available on: Itch