Google IO 2016 {Events}

GoogleIO2016 date and time

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Attended activities

• Keynote
• others (other presentations, see https://events.google.com/io2016/schedule?filters=VR )

Keynote

• announcing DayDream (May 18)
  • arguing for "high quality"
  • handle as "wand"
  • Android N
  • Fall 2016
  • based on Android, thus forced to use adb and the whole Android toolkit
    • probably no change thus for workshop, still believing in 0 install discovery

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others cf own playlist

• Design process
  • ranking ideas
  • make a team with what knowledge and when
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• VR view
  • https://github.com/google/vrview
• Designing for Daydream
  1. VR gateway to enable new experiences, perspective and abilities
  2. sessions are 30+ min
  3. used home, comfortable seated
  • importance of textures, any kind, even noise, rather than plain color
    • helps to give a sense of depth
  • for Mike Alger session see also http://vatelier.net/Main/LessonsLearned
    • reminder of 0.5-20 range
  • 20px minimum height currently for readable text
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  • wallpaper not as a background but rather the destination users are going to
    • critic of void style, nothing memorable and sharable
  • use environment to frame content
  • audio as there is not perfectly silent place on earth
  • animation helps presence, even if non central objects
    • particle effect as an easy cheap trick
• Designing & Developing for the Daydream Controller
  • Chuckingly, controller emulator based on a second phone with plastic layer to make faster prototyping

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Overall remarks and conclusions

• VR design recomendations http://www.google.com/design/spec-vr/
• VRview tutorial https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/vr_view_101/
• Physical Web
  • http://google.github.io/physical-web/
  • https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/eddystone-url/implementations with Python and Node
  • https://developers.google.com/beacons/
  • apparantly supporting only
    • Bluetooth low energy
    • Android above 5.0 to make a Beacon (using e.g. Beacons Toy)
    • Android above 4.3.2 to work out of the box with Chrome since February 2016
    • Physical Web app to scan
    • iOS with Today view enabled
    • also different from iBeacon https://developer.apple.com/ibeacon/ using e.g. https://github.com/dburr/linux-ibeacon
• What's New with Project Tango
  • several good examples for interior design
  • basically any 3D content that can be interesting over a flat surface quite works well now
  • using 3D scanning point map to overlay 3D objects on top

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Other reviews or coverage

• here

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