Background

I was Design Lead for a web application that makes it easy for anyone to build immersive, 360° tours right from their computer. See vr.google.com/tourcreator for details and to try it out.

My Role

• Lead Product Designer
• Assistant UX Researcher

Platforms & Screen Sizes

• Web
• iPhone and iPad
• Android mobile and tablets
• Virtual Reality

Problem

The scripting process for building Expeditions VR tours was tedious and difficult for content team and partners, and educators were limited to a finite set of reviewed/approved VR tours.

Goals

• Build a simple, WYSIWYG tool for creating VR tours.
• Allow for creating and placing rich annotations.
• Future proof framework for other potential VR building use cases.
• Don't get sucked into trying to build a solution for the world’s most compelling VR content.