Presentation at Tinker meeting, July 2018.

1. Google Expeditions
Anne Belden
Ela Area Public Library
abelden@eapl.org | slideshare.net/abelden
www.eapl.org/vr

2. What are Google Expeditions?
 Google Expeditions is an immersive app that
allows librarians and patrons to explore the world
through virtual reality tours.
 Google Expeditions use mobile devices and VR
Viewers.
 Google Support: What is Expeditions?
 Google Blog: Expeditions

3. What are Google Expeditions?
 Google Expeditions kits consist of:
 Leader tablet
 Smartphones
 VR viewers
 Router

4. Where do I get them?
 Best Buy
 Office Depot
 Aquila Education
 Synnex Corp

5. How much do they cost?
 10-Student Kit: $3500-4000
 20-Student Kit: $5600-6600
 30-Student Kit: $7800-9500
 15-Student AR kit: $9400-9600

6. Can I make my own kit?
 Make your own, save around 30%
 Requirements: tablet, mobile phones with
gyroscope and accelerometer, VR viewers
(Cardboard or similar), router
 Google Specifications
 Article: Build Your Own Expeditions Kit

7. How do they work?
 Instructor downloads
Expeditions to tablet
 Phones in viewers connect to
instructor tablet via router
 Launch Expeditions app on
phones
 Instructor runs Expedition and
reads information

8. Where can we go?
 There are more than 800 expeditions available
 Take patrons up in space, under the sea, to
wonders on every continent
 List of Available Expeditions

9. What do we do with them?
 VR Drop-In Programs
 Educational Programs
 Teens: Virtual College Visits
 Book discussions – adults like them, too!
 Lend to teachers

10. New: AR!
 Google went fully live with AR Expeditions in May, 2018
 Uses phones on selfie sticks and the AR app
 Shows digital 3D objects
 Google blog: AR