Whiteboard
Founder
Sep 2015 – Sep 2016
Nearly a decade before Apple Vision Pro, Whiteboard explored collaboration in virtual reality on the HTC Vive. We built a shared workspace and experimented with the gestures, interfaces, and room designs that could make creating together feel natural.
Whiteboard
Founder
Sep 2015 – Sep 2016
A shared whiteboard in VR
Whiteboard brought remote teammates into a shared virtual room where they could arrange images, documents, and notes together. A companion mobile app kept the workspace accessible outside the headset.
Your workspace, outside the headset
The mobile app was a window into the virtual workspace. You could schedule meetings, access files, annotate documents, and review sessions without putting on a headset.
Designing interactions from scratch
We were figuring out how everyday actions should work in VR: opening menus, moving documents, and working together around a board. These storyboards helped us explore the interactions before building them.
Hands are the original controllers
We wanted people to interact with their hands rather than learn a new set of controls. We experimented with hand tracking, but used controllers where the hardware needed more precision.
Designing the room
Designing Whiteboard meant designing a space as well as an interface. Inspired by planetariums, we explored curved rooms that gave everyone a clear view of the board without requiring much movement.
The multiplayer beta
Two people working together in the same virtual room. The beta showed what was possible, but also exposed the limits of the hardware: performance, connectivity, and comfort.
