Alex Faaborg

@faaborg

Designer on the AR/VR team at Google. I've led the design for Android Wear, Google Now, and the Nexus 5 launcher. Previously the Principal Designer on Firefox.

Mountain View, CA
Joined March 2007
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  1. May 9

    On the live stream now: Exploring AR Interaction

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  2. May 9

    Video of the ARCore Augmented Images art installation we have on display at available here:

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  3. May 9

    talk on Designing AR Apps that I gave with the awesome is now on YouTube:

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  4. May 9

    I'll be presenting Best Practices to Design AR applications, on the livestream starting at 8:30am

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  5. 7 Sep 2017

    Mini Golf AR: by and

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  6. 7 Sep 2017

    Also 2 great developer tools for VR, Performance HUD (app's performance in VR), and Instant Preview:

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  7. 7 Sep 2017

    We just launched 3 New Daydream Elements: object manipulation, the constellation menu, and, custom arm models:

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  8. 6 Sep 2017

    Here is a quick recap of the first 6 Daydream Elements, we have more coming very soon:

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  9. 3 Sep 2017

    Very comprehensive playlist of and demos from

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  10. Retweeted
    29 Aug 2017

    initial impressions - Pretty solid for a preview. Blow away by the light estimations.

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  11. Retweeted
    29 Aug 2017

    Just hangin' with my buddies 😀. Start building with today. We're excited to see what you create!

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  12. 1 Sep 2017

    ARcheology!

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    More adventures with ARCore! Walking around a 3D model I built of an archaeological site at Magdala.
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    29 Aug 2017

    Check out Cool AR experiment built on

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  14. 20 Jul 2017

    Great article by on designing for the Daydream controller: object manipulation with interaction planes

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  15. 17 May 2017

    VR developers and designers: check out Daydream Elements for open source examples of Locomotion, Menus, and more:

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  16. 10 May 2017

    Very very excited that will be joining Daydream

    What a hoot! 🦉 We're welcoming to Google.
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  17. 27 Feb 2017

    I really agree with this approach. Locomotion in VR is becoming the new inverted thumbstick, the player will have expected behaviors

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  18. 27 Feb 2017

    Leveraging Change Blindness for redirected walking, really great idea!

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    24 Jan 2017

    Pearl – the first Oscar nominated short to be shot and edited in VR. How awesome is that?

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  20. 4 Jan 2017

    This is a pretty great way of understanding (and experiencing) the field of view of your fovea:

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