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 at Google I/O 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:
Here’s a direct link to the Daydream Labs: Lessons Learned from VR Prototyping session where you can see more of the prototypes in action. You can watch more videos about VR from Google I/O by looking at the playlist on the new Google VR YouTube channel.
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