Sprayscape from Google is a perfectly imperfect VR-ish camera. Google always make some insane experiments with apps. And this is one crazy experimented app from Google. This app is a mixture of photo and photo collages with full 360 perspective.
Sprayscape is from Google Creative Lab which is a contribution towards Android Experiments Program. Basically, this program produce out some creative and innovative apps breaking the norms. Sprayscape app has very simplistic design with couple of options.
As it sounds, Sprayscape, sprays the photos you take in the virtual sphere in turn making a photo collage which can be shared among other apps. Google says that the app uses the company’s Cardboard SDK to access a phone’s gyroscope data. When you open Sprayscape, all you gotta do is move your camera around and touch the screen to take pictures. The pictures comes up look like sprayed (just like spray gun). The collages you have taken can be viewed anytime in the app media gallery. The created collage can viewed in a virtual reality headset like Google Cardboard.
The GPU makes it all possible. On user tap or touch, the camera feed is rendered to a texture at a rate of 60 frames per second. That texture is then composited with any existing textures by a fragment shader on the GPU. That same shader also creates the scape you see in app, handling the projection from 2D camera to a 360 sphere.
Sprayscape is available from the Google Play Store, it will be soon coming to iOS. Google also has released the code for the app as an open source project for developers to access for themselves. The code can be downloaded at GitHub. What do you guys think about this app? How about the creativity of Google towards creating an app? let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.
