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Cardboard photosphere3/17/2023 ![]() That’s why we’ve used one controller called “sphere_transition” with two states “sphere 1” and “sphere 2”. We wanted the camera view to move from the center of one sphere to the center of the other when the user presses a “Tap” button. (Please, note that from here I’ll call the “position of the sphere center” “position of the sphere” to keep in simple.) This way, we know that the two spheres do not intersect each other. We’ve chosen to place the center of the first photo sphere at and the center of the other one at. We’ve created a group called “Spheres” made up of two photo spheres “Photo Sphere1” and “Photo Sphere2”, and a button per sphere.Įach sphere has a default size of. After launching the experience, the user can then switch from one photo sphere to the other by positioning the raycaster target onto the “Tap” button and -not or- tapping this button. We’ve “highlighted” the raycaster by using a target image. Within each photo sphere, we’ve inserted a plane (the red “Tap” button) and a raycaster, which tracks the direction in which the user is looking. In this project, we’ve used two photo spheres (but feel free to use as many as you want!). You can download the corresponding zpp file here. If you want it, drop a comment down below - I’ll pick someone at random this weekend.We’ve put together a little experience to show you a way to switch from one photo sphere to another in AR and VR modes. Still sealed and everything! Like everyone at I/O, you’ll have to bring your own Android phone. Fortunately, I managed to end up with an extra one. Want one? Unless you’re at I/O, you might be out of luck. Tour Guide has you explore the Palace of Versailles.Windy Day is a cute, cartoony environment where you can watch animals sneak around as leaves fall.Photo Sphere Viewer lets you look around in pictures you’ve taken using Android’s built-in 360º panoramic feature.Push the “button” to start flying forward, push it again to stop. Earth Flyover lets you zoom around a city in Google Earth.“Exhibit” lets you look at a few 3D recreations of objects.Street Vue lets you wander around in a VR version of, you guessed it, street view.Youtube lets you watch a selection of Youtube videos on a simulated theater screen.The cardboard app comes with 7 “experiences”, and each is pretty darned neat in its own right: Your phone is able to sense the magnet’s movement, allowing it to act as a ridiculously clever little button. The magnet slides within its groove, then automatically slips back into a place because of another magnet on opposite side. This funny little cardboard faux-Rift has something even the original Rift itself does not: a built-in button. Turns out, these Google guys are pretty freaking clever. “To select an item, slide the magnet down then let go.” “Turn your head to look around the app”, it reads. If you’re like me, you assume it’s just to hold everything in place or something. Once everything is all folded up, you plop the magnet into a small groove on Cardboard’s exterior. It’s the very last piece of the construction process the last thing you put in in place. Midway through bending Cardboard into shape, you’ll notice a stray, circular magnet stuck to one of the flaps. Like the actual Oculus Rift, two plastic lenses built into the face of Cardboard help to distort your phone’s screen in a way that helps wrap the image around your eye. Once you finish contorting Cardboard into shape, a rubber band and a velcro’d flap hold your Android phone in place. Is it an Oculus Rift killer? Hah - of course not. it’s actually kind of freaking wonderful. I’ve been playing with it since the Keynote ended and. ![]() Google calls the project “Cardboard” I’ve taken to calling it the Mockulus Thrift. ![]() Paired with your Android phone, that origami’d cardboard transforms into a cheap, on-the-fly virtual reality headset. If you can bust out the skills you picked up at the University of Ikea and work your way through the the not-so-intuitive folding process, you end up with something wonderful. Once you tear the seal on Google’s lil’ slab of cardboard, it becomes clear that this is no mere corrugated fiberboard. Yeah, yeah, they gave attendees some other stuff, too - but that cardboard! Each year at I/O, Google gives all of the developers in the audience a gift.
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