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The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry

Session Name: UX in 'Google Earth VR'
Speaker(s): Adam Glazier, Nadav Ashkenazi, Per Karlsson
Company Name(s): Google, Google, Google
Track / Format: Innovation

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Overview: 'Google Earth VR' on Vive and Oculus enables people to freely navigate the entire planet by flying, dragging, rotating, teleporting and searching. To maintain usability, immersion and comfort, each navigation mode went through rounds of iteration and user testing. This talk pulls the lid off the UX insights and implementation details that helped make or break each mode of navigation.

VRDC Fall 2017

Adam Glazier

Google

Nadav Ashkenazi

Google

Per Karlsson

Google

free content

Innovation

Virtual / Augmented Reality