Solar System for Google Cardboard
the planets orbiting around you, in augmented reality ยท 2014
A web app that draws the solar system in stereo for Google Cardboard, over the live image of your phone's camera, so the planets orbit around you. It is featured on Experiments with Google.
The solar system is not to scale: some planets and moons are greatly enlarged, the moons' orbits are shrunk, and the orbit and rotation periods are changed, so that you can easily see and follow them all.
How to use it
- Get a Google Cardboard viewer.
- Set your phone's screen timeout to at least 10 minutes, so the screen doesn't go dark while the phone is in the viewer.
- Open this page on your phone and tap Run. If you allow camera access, the planets appear in your scene; otherwise they float in black space. Tap the screen for full screen.
Without the camera - Put your phone in the viewer and look around.
Your phone's browser needs WebGL, camera access and device orientation events. On a computer you can look around by dragging the mouse, move with the cursor keys, and go up and down with R and F.