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  • Google Sprayscapes lets you build surreal 360-degree landscapes

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    Nathan Ingraham
    Nathan Ingraham
    10.12.2016

    Google has long held a reputation for being an experimental company, so it was notable that it felt the need to build Android Experiments, the platform it launched last year to show developers how weird you can get when building smartphone apps. The crazy interactive "paper planes" demo Google showed off at its I/O developer conference earlier this year is a perfect example of what the company is encouraging developers to do with Android Experiments. All developers are encouraged to build Android Experiments, but today Google is launching one of its own called Sprayscape. It's a weird name, but fairly accurate once you start using the app: It turns whatever your camera sees into a virtual spray paint gun that lets you splash the landscape around a 360-degree virtual canvas. The phone's gyroscope is used to orient your position inside that sphere.