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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

Further possible enhancements


Whew, that was a lot of work! This thing is certainly done, isn't it? Never! Here are a few improvements just begging to be implemented:

  • Better detection of phone images:

    • Not everyone keeps all of their images in a specific path. In fact, some camera software uses completely different paths! Introduce a proper file browser.

  • Better detection of photosphere images:

    • There is a Projection Type attribute in the XMP header, another piece of metadata in some JPG files. Unfortunately, the Android API doesn't have a specific class to read this data, and integrating a third-party library is beyond the scope of this project. Feel free to try the following links:

      https://github.com/dragon66/pixymeta-android

      https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor

      Don't use the pano technique because it picks up regular panoramas. Allow users to flag or fix photosphere or rotation metadata on images that are displayed incorrectly.

  • Animate UI actions—scale/translate on select, smooth...

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