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Cardboard VR Projects for Android

You're reading from   Cardboard VR Projects for Android Develop mobile virtual reality apps using the native Google Cardboard SDK for Android

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785887871
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Virtual Reality for Everyone FREE CHAPTER 2. The Skeleton Cardboard Project 3. Cardboard Box 4. Launcher Lobby 5. RenderBox Engine 6. Solar System 7. 360-Degree Gallery 8. 3D Model Viewer 9. Music Visualizer Index

Possible enhancements


Can you think of other enhancements to this project? Here are a few you could consider and try to implement:

  • Add rings to Saturn. (A cheap way to implement might be a plane with transparency.)

  • Improve goToPlanet so that your camera position animates between positions.

  • Add controls to allow you to change the perspective or fly freely through space.

  • Add a top-down view option, for a "traditional" picture of the Solar System. (Be aware of float precision issues at scale.)

  • Add moons to each of the other planets. (This can be implemented just like we did for the Earth's moon, with its mother planet as its origin.)

  • Represent the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

  • Add tilt and wobble to the other planets. Did you know that Uranus spins on its side?

  • Add text labels to each planet that use the planet's transform but always face the camera. In lieu of 3D text objects, the labels could be prepared images.

  • Add background music.

  • Improve the positional accuracy in such a way that it accurately...

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