From Cardboard to Daydream - The Evolution of VR on Android

From Cardboard to Daydream is about the evolution of VR on Android, a bit of history, the innovations spun by Google's VR efforts and what does your app needs to be a Daydream app. The presentation includes a code walkthrough and even a small app demo.

All About Android (N, TV, VR,..)
GDG-NYC July 2016 Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/gdgnyc/events/230848485/

Transcript

1. From Cardboard to DayDream The Evolution of VR on Android Oscar Salguero @OscarSalguero
2. Agenda (No Demo) (Code Walkthrough & Demo)
3. Cardboard
4. Cardboard • Created by David Coz and Damien Henry, Google engineers at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris, in their 20% "Innovation Time Off" • A VR Viewer for your smartphone made of cardboard, plastic focal lenses, capacitive tape • Introduced in Google I/O 2014 • Cardboard allows us to experience virtual reality in a simple, fun, and affordable way
5. Cardboard is Open • Specs for cardboard viewers were released to the public and since then multiple vendors have created an infinity of viewers • All the intel on how to create a cardboard app are out there in the Internet
6. Cardboard has evolved (1.0 vs 2.0)
7. Cardboard Innovations - JUMP • JUMP: VR Video in 360 degrees • JUMP Assembler: Camera software that stitches video from multiple cameras to create immersive VR content. • The JUMP camera rig holds 16 GoPro cameras. • Youtube + JUMP • GoPro Odyssey: Based on JUMP. Makes 16 HERO4 cameras act as one, frame-level synchronization.
8. Video Want more videos? Watch my Google VR Playlist!
9. Cardboard Innovations - Expeditions • Tools for teachers to take classes to virtual field trips • 1 million students have been taken to expeditions in the last year alone
10. Cardboard Innovations - Apps Street View
11. Cardboard Innovations - Apps Star Wars VR
12. Cardboard Innovations - Apps Proton Pulse
13. Cardboard Innovations - Apps Roller Coaster VR
14. Cardboard Innovations - Apps Beer Box
15. Daydream
17. Daydream-ready phones
20. Headset & Controller
22. The Controller
23. Daydream Apps
24. Daydream Home
25. Play Store
26. App Listing
27. Daydream VR App
28. The Controller
29. Video Want more videos? Watch my Google VR Playlist!
30. • High quality content with narrative • Presence: all your senses lineup to make you feel “YOU ARE THERE”, spatial audio immersion will help a lot. • Live environment refreshing at 60fps all day every day Daydream’s Experience
31. Daydream’s Experience • Engage users beyond novelty • Users: Longer and more extensive than the apps available for Cardboard... 30+ min session while the user is at home. • Let users try your experience • Single purchase to unlock the entire experience
32. Daydream’s Experience • Controller: Broad and expressive gesture vocabulary, point, inspect, swing or move objects, 3rd person character control, flying, etc... • Not only for VR, think AR, MR and “beyond reality”
33. Daydream Apps • A Daydream app is an app that is completely 3D, there are no 2D flows, no navigation bar, soft button bar or status bar • A hybrid app contains both 2D and Daydream experiences
34. Submitting DayDream Apps for Review 8. Stable horizon line 9. Users initiate movement 10. Honestly represent content 11. App uses the Daydream Controller 12. App has a VR Icon 13. App has a 360 photosphere screenshot 1. App installs and runs (no crashes) 2. Does the app maintains 60 FPS over long periods of time on a Daydream-ready phone? 3. Never go to 2D 4. App stays in landscape mode 5. Use immersive full-screen mode 6. Users can focus on elements 7. App maintains head tracking
35. What should you create? • Keep in mind that we are pretty early and VR experiences are evolving… • Relaxing VS Exciting experiences? • VR Genres? (still being explored and created) • Your imagination is the limit!
36. Dev Kit Setup and Code
37. Setting Up the Dev Kit 1. A Nexus 5X or 6P (your headset phone) 2. The latest Android N Preview, Android SDK and NDK 3. A spare phone that will be your controller (an old Nexus 5 with KitKat will do) 4. Download controllerpaint.apk and install it on the headset phone
38. Setting Up the Dev Kit 5. Download controller_emulator.apk and install it in the controller phone 6. Set up some permissions and Bluetooth connections (more here) 7. You are good to go!
39. Code Walkthrough The code is on GitHub.
40. Demo (Sorta...) This presentation is available at: https://goo.gl/X4s4nP
41. Questions? This presentation is available at: https://goo.gl/X4s4nP
42. Thank You! Oscar Salguero @OscarSalguero