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PASADENA, Calif. (KDVR) — It’s the life-changing phone call any entrepreneur, artist and author would love to receive: their creation has been chosen as one of Oprah’s Favorite Things for 2025.
“I was like, what’s happening?” Kayla Silber told FOX31’s Jeremy Hubbard. “I can’t describe to you the feeling of that moment after all that hard work.”
The famed list, which was released early Wednesday and has a big influence on consumer behavior around the holidays. Inclusion on the list is often a massive sales driver for those whose products make the cut.
The California artist and author spent years as an artist who worked with augmented reality, and that’s what inspired the children’s book Rosie and Raven.
“I was a traditional artist creating multimedia, mixed media paintings and I discovered augmented reality and I realized I could bring my paintings to life,” said Silber. “So I started developing this very meticulous, very precise process of animating my paintings and creating hidden worlds that would be revealed when you held a phone up to them.”
People can read the book without a smartphone or tablet. However, when viewing the book’s cover or pages through an iPad or phone camera, cutting-edge augmented reality and artificial intelligence technology make the pages come alive with animation and original music.
“The story is about a fairy named Rosie, and she gets stranded outside her world in a freezing snowstorm in human world. And the only way that she can get back is through a fully bloomed rose,” Silber said.
Silber also spoke about the reactions she sees when people see the book’s technology.
“I love that the jaw-dropping joy that both children and adults experience,” Silber told FOX31.
The book is self-published, and Silber hopes she can meet the holiday demand. She says she’s excited about the possibilities for this kind of technology in future storytelling.
“The goal is to kind of create a new art form that can open up a world of reading that has now been kind of lost for this generation,” Silber said.
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Anthony Sutton is a business strategist and writer with a passion for management, leadership, and entrepreneurship. With years of experience in the corporate world, he shares insights on business growth, strategy, and innovation through management-opleiding.org.
