Gallery: The Inside Story of Google's Daydream, Where VR Feels Like Home

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    When Google started designing Daydream, they decided all colors had to come from nature.
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    When you pick a movie to watch in Daydream, you do it in the coolest home-theater space ever.
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    All of Google's sketches imagine Daydream VR places as part of larger worlds.
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    When an art gallery can look like anything, this is what Google thinks it might look like.
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    Google's designers had lots of concepts for VR, but one of their first principles was to get an idea into VR as soon as possible.
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    Once you choose a movie, you head outside into the wilderness to watch it.
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    Even from the beginning, the Daydream team wanted places that felt real---only better.
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    The designers had to fill an entire 360-degree world at all times, so they added little lifelike touches everywhere.
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    One of the team's goals was to make it feel like the world keeps existing even when you're not in it.
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    This is where you watch a Google Play movie in VR. Doesn't it look cozy?
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    The in-VR theater could have been anything, even a movie theater. But something about the outdoors felt right.
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