20 Minutes into the Future with Google Cardboard and JavaScript
Max Glenister
I gave this talk at JS Oxford in November 2015. The talk is about using JavaScript and various web APIs to create Google Cardboard experiences.
You can view the slides online here, navigate the slides by clicking or with your arrow keys.
I wrote the slideshow framework from scratch for the talk, using marked.js, three.js and some custom JavaScript.
To accompany the talk I also created some demos, these can be viewed online on blog.omgmog.net/jscard.xyz. These are best viewed in Chrome on an Android device, but should work alright in Chrome on Mac/Windows too.
To present the demos live, using an actual device, I used the Chrome extension/Android application Vysor. This allows you to stream your phone’s screen over USB (via ADB), and it works really well.
Besides thinking about how to create Google Cardboard experiences using JavaScript, I’ve also been collecting resources about the UI/UX of VR, which I’ve put together as a useful list.
You can find out more about the UI/UX in VR list here.
Mentioned elsewhere on this site
- 01: Basic VR
This is actually pretty much one of the JSCard demos that I created last November for my 20 Minutes into the Future with Google Cardboard and JavaScript talk.
- 19: Which way is North? Part 1
For me this happened while presenting some demos as part of my “20 Minutes into the Future with Google Cardboard and JavaScript” in 2015.
- Cardboctober, ten years on
…magnetic North and iOS from wherever the phone was pointing at load, and I found out the hard way when I presented at JS Oxford from a stage that faced South.
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