A Literal 360-Degree View of your Data w/Google Cardboard

Ben Lyne Senior Technical Solution Architect blyne@salesforce.com @ben-lyne

Google Cardboard Unity Salesforce REST API

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What is Google Cardboard?

  Developed by Google employees in Paris

  Released at Google I/O last year

  Basic VR Viewer

  Uses your phone

  Works with Android and iOS phones

  Google provides SDK’s for both Android and iOS

How it Works

Slightly different left and right images to achieve 3-D effect

Head tracking with phone’s accelerometer and gyroscope to achieve VR

Magnet button utilizes phone’s magnetometer for input

VR Headset Comparison

 Oculus Rift

 Tethered

$400

 HTC Vive

 Tethered

 Not available yet

 Price expected to be around that of an Oculus

 Samsung Gear VR

 Uses phone

 Powered by Oculus

 $199

 Google Cardboard

 Uses phone

 Can make it yourself

$5 - $10

Unity

 Cross-platform game engine

 Supports 2D and 3D formats

 Support for iOS and Android

 Main language is C#

Salesforce REST API

Sega Genesis / SNES VR Visor View Master Nintendo Virtual Boy

Virtual Reality is Cool

VR Delivers the Feeling of Presence (Spatial Connection)

But When is Virtual Reality Practical?

 Practicality

•  Mostly used for games or highly specialized areas

•  Hard to avoid the gimmick

 Dependent Hardware

•  Tethered

•  External Tracking Devices

 Cost

•  Headsets are expensive

Practical Solution

Real Use Cases

Real Estate

 Movie location scouting

 Surveying

 3D environment building

 Crime scene capture

 Hospitality Venues

 Showroom capture

 Engineers recording remote areas

BubblePix BubblePod and Wide Angle Lens

Demo w/Google Cardboard

Unity Code Demo

GitHub Repositories

Bubble Pix VR

•  https://github.com/fluidpixel/BubblePixVR

 Salesforce Pano

•  https://github.com

Questions?

Thank you