Rob Jagnow is a senior software engineer who was a part of Google’s Daydream Lab team that produced over 60 VR prototypes in 30 weeks. This team was originally revealed in a WIRED magazine profile of VP of VR Clay Bavor, and this Daydream Labs prototyping team was officially announced by Bavor in his Google I/O talk on “VR at Google.” The Daydream Labs team gave a really amazing talk titled “Lessons Learned from VR Prototyping,” which had a lot of great VR design insights across the three areas of interactions, immersion, and social VR. I had a chance to catch up with Rob Jagnow at Google I/O, and dig a bit deeper into some his favorite prototypes, lessons learned, and design principles that were driving these VR experiments.
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Here’s the Daydream Labs Drum Keys prototype for text entry in VR that uses Vive controllers:
🎉 BEST VR TALK I'VE EVER SEEN! 🎉 #Daydream Lab Blog: https://t.co/2VcoEykJRUhttps://t.co/w4Y7zLyyYz at t=1h12m52spic.twitter.com/58YhYZu3BR
— Kent Bye (Voices of VR) (@kentbye) May 19, 2016
Here’s a direct link to the “Daydream Labs: Lessons Learned from VR Prototyping” session along with all of the other
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