Virtual Reality with Google Cardboard

Lesson 4: Personal Museum pt. 1

Instruction Overview

 

Understand

  • How to use Google Images to locate and download relevant assets
  • How to upload items from the web into CoSpaces project

Apply

  • Upload a web asset to design the floor of the museum
  • Wear Google Cardboard to view and test

Create

  • Develop the floors and wall of the museum to be populated in the next lesson

Create Goal

☐Design the floor and walls of your VR personal museum

What is a personal museum?

Any ideas?

A personal museum tells your story...in VR!

You will add items that give the visitor some info about your life

 

It can include:

  • Where your family is from
  • Your favorite TV/Movies
  • Games or apps that you love
  • Anything else!

Let's log into CoSpaces

Visit www.cospaces.io

Log in with your username and password

Your instructor will hand this out

Click Free Play and open your space from last class

CoSpaces let's us add images from our own computer

How do we do that?

First, we need to find the image on Google

Let's find a picture of a wooden tile that we can use as the ground of our museum

 

Open www.google.com and search "wooden floor"

 

Click Images to see all your options

Save your fave image

Open the floor you want, right click it and click "Save Image As"

Task
Figure out how to upload your floor to the stage

5 min

The answer

Click Environment and then Stage Image to upload your picture

Our floor is done. What else do we need?

What are some components of a museum?

A good museum needs...

☐Walls to hang up items and guide the visitor

 

☐Instructions or background info for the visitor

☐Items that represent your life

Let's build!

Drag a Square into your space

Rotate and Scale to stand it up

Change the color to match your style

Double click the wall to find Material

Task
☐Build a room to house your museum

10 min

Hint: Duplicate is your friend

Create Goal

☐Design the floor and walls of your VR personal museum

If you want to get ahead...

Start searching Google Images for items to fill your museum

Next Lesson:
Personal Museum pt. 2

We'll populate the museum and let our friends try it out!

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