1. A Literal 360-Degree View
of your Data w/Google
Cardboard
Ben Lyne
Senior Technical Solution Architect
blyne@salesforce.com
@ben-lyne

2. Google Cardboard Unity Salesforce REST API
Topics Covered

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Unity
​ Cross-platform game engine
​ Supports 2D and 3D formats
​ Support for iOS and Android
​ Main language is C#

7. Salesforce REST API

8. Sega Genesis / SNES VR Visor View Master Nintendo Virtual Boy
Virtual Reality is Cool

9. VR Delivers the Feeling of Presence (Spatial Connection)

10. 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

11. Practical Solution

12. Real Use Cases
Real Estate
​ Movie location scouting
​ Surveying
​ 3D environment building
​ Crime scene capture
​ Hospitality Venues
​ Showroom capture
​ Engineers recording remote
areas

13. BubblePix BubblePod and Wide Angle Lens

14. Demo w/Google Cardboard

15. Unity Code Demo

16. GitHub Repositories
Bubble Pix VR
• https://github.com/fluidpixel/BubblePixVR
​ Salesforce Pano
• https://github.com

17. Questions?

18. Thank you