Sam Keene is a San Francisco–based Australian who works as a Senior User Experience Engineer at Google. His work focuses on virtual and augmented reality platforms. As a kid in the late ’80s, he started programming on a Commodore 64 and has worked professionally as a mobile software engineer and interaction designer for more than a decade. Sam has lectured in Interactive Media at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and his work has won numerous industry accolades including Gold Cannes Lions, IxDA, D&AD, and One Show awards. He now spends most of his spare time with his wife and daughter collecting records, skateboarding, and when possible, playing early ’90s arcade games.

• Preface 1. Intro to VR and the Google Daydream Platform 2. Setting Up for Daydream Development 3. Getting to Know the Daydream Controller 4. UI in VR 5. Physics and the Environment 6. Audio and Video in Daydream 7. Advanced Daydream Controller Techniques 8. More Physics Games 9. Multiplayer Games 10. Advanced Optimizations Appendix A. Porting Daydream Apps to Other Platforms Appendix B. Video Formats, Codecs and Best Practices for Preparing and Using Video in VR and Daydream Appendix C. Where To from Here?

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