What is Reddit's opinion of Google Spotlight Stories?

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Also note that Age of Sail is viewable using Google cardboard/vr using Google Spotlight Stories :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories

Bao was created by a Toronto-born director of Chinese descent, and much of the story relates to that. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pixar-bao-short-showcases-toronto-1.4706568

Available on Cardboard via the Spotlight Stories app on Android and iOS.

Worth checking out the other bits in there, ‘Rain or Shine’ and ‘On Ice’ we’re both pretty good IMO. They use cube maps and some billboarding to provide very high quality, plus some minimal interaction via look cues (in Rain or Shine, the couple with a beer will have a new pint each time you look, up to three).

Google Spotlight Stories does this - Rain or Shine and On Ice are fun, short VR narratives, with a little bit of gaze-based timing adjustments (plot sections don't kick off until you look at them).

Besides positional tracking (which is important) there's a vast performance gulf between desktop and mobile. Desktops can draw around 500W in VR, mobile has to be well under 5W. Even laptops run in the 50W-150W range. Battery tech doesn't improve very quickly, and phones can't dissipate much more heat. As long as mobile means carrying the weight on your head, there will be a pretty large gap between the two platforms. If VR All-in-one units can be a lot nicer than phone-based ones, but still a long ways from PC-based performance.

Some times perhaps you don' t make your method is exactly the same as his tutorial. Because i haven't to use android in ar apps (in ios i used measure in ios 11),But some ar stoies app ,here you can recommend one:Google spolight stoies: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories

So inside Google there is a division called ATAP (Advanced Technologies And Projects). They are kind of like Google X (now part of Alphabet) except they focus mostly on consumer experimentation, usually related to Android or Chrome. This division actually was originally part of Motorola Mobility. However, after Google sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, Google took all of Motorola's patents and also took ATAP, the group that created Spotlight Stories. The End.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories&hl=en

There's an apk for Google Cardboard with all the Google Spotlight Stories: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories&hl=en_US.

Has anyone tried sideloading it onto a quest? I'm tempted to try but not sure if it'd work.

I'm mainly interested in it for watching movies (as a media HMD) via Netflix and some Google Play movies I own or rent, but there are some games, and YouTube videos, and Google has these VR digital shorts called Spotlight Stories that are really good. At least the ones I saw were really cool (especially Duet). They're also available outside of VR.

You can also view it with the spotlight stories app which give you a bit more of an immersive experience. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories&hl=en_GB

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> Go look up the app "Stories." It has multiple animated shorts as well as a live action short film with full head rotation/tilt usable with cardboard.

This is the Stories app you're talking about, right?

I downloaded HELP, but I can't get it to work in Cardboard.

Play Store link

Not sure if it works on cardboard, but I just found it inside Google spotlight stories on play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories

How to see 360° Duet on your phone: download the Google Spotlight Stories app.

Yep! Its called Help. You have to download Google's new stories app.. But its really awesome. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories

Useless but pretty cool Google Spotlight Stories https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories

Is that Google team the same one that did Spotlight Stories? It seems like the same type of format.

Not sure if Spotlight has the one you're after but it's a very similar premise

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories

This sounds like "Help" from the Google Spotlight Story app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories