This document discusses adding 3D interactivity and games to book development using the Baker Framework and Unity 3D. It describes the author's initial projects in eTextbooks and reasons for choosing the Baker Framework. The basic process involves using the Baker Framework to wrap HTML/CSS/JS content into an iOS app and Unity 3D to wrap 3D games. The author contributes a simple demonstration and tutorial merging the two frameworks to allow switching between 2D and 3D content in a single app.

1. Baker Framework &
Unity 3D
Adding 3D interactivity and games to book development

2. Getting involved
• The path not taken – O A.D.
• Development community wanted me to do something I wasn’t
interested in
• Project would be interesting, but not a passion…
• eTextbooks
• iBooks author and Inkling
• Math text books with tools and game embedded
• Perfect mix of past and present
• Why Baker framework?
• No Unity widget, I wasn’t squeaky enough
• Still early (can make an impact)
• There is a need – Apple Store REJECTION
• Was feeling ambitious
• No ask, just do…

3. Baker Framework
• Simple book development using HTML5, CSS3, & JS
• Berkeley Software License
• Wraps webpage into an iOS app

4. Unity 3D
• Game Engine
• Easy to use, cross-platform, large dev community
• Wraps a game in an iOS app
• Proprietary

5. Basic process
Baker
View Controller HTML, CSS, JS
Content
iOS Application
Unity
View Controller
3D & Code

6. Contribution
• Simple demonstration
• Activities
• Figure out what the wrappers are doing
• Unity – Complete mess, but lots of support options
• Baker – Clean and organized, no support
• One UIApplication -Merging files safely
• Creating a Unity demo
• Switching back and forth between
• Upcoming tutorial
• Community involvement
• I informed them I was doing this project
• No response (did it today)
• Intentional – No ask, just do

7. Moments
• “ah-ha!”
• Unity 3D – Communicating directly to iOS, NSUserDefaults
• Baker – Webpage to iOS, URL parsing
• Amazing how clean the open source project was
• “oh-no!”
• You want me to do what? Eh… (0 A.D.)
• Unity 3D – Holy cow, what a mess…

8. Blog Highlights / Summary
• Big future with eTextbooks, and lots of potential
• Don’t sit and wait for the wave to come…
• Trilingual
• Objective C
• C#
• HTML (well.. Spanglish)
• Great, it’s working… how do I explain it now?
• Left the path for any OpenGL implementation
• Overall it was difficult, frustrating, but fun.