Livro - XR Reader

I got hold of a Meta Quest around the time that I started working on my Master Thesis in 2019. 

This coincided with the start of the COVID lockdown and was my first real contact with VR, previous attempts, a Google Cardboard and one of those shopping centre roller coaster experiences, had left me a little unimpressed.

This time around, the newfound free time and the inability to go anywhere beyond the four walls of my student flat made the potential of VR as a medium click almost instantaneously.

Over the next year I developed many different prototypes that allowed me to really explore this new technology  before I eventually landed on Livro in early 2021.

My goal with Livro was to bring the real-life physically you get from interacting with print media into the digital world. 

To me, there's more to a book than the images and words printed on its pages, I think most people would agree that reading a pdf on a tablet or computer monitor is not quite the same, and with VR we can help bridge that gap.