🪦 Expeditions · 5 years
Expeditions was a program for providing virtual reality experiences to school classrooms through Google Cardboard viewers, allowing educators to take their students on virtual field trips. Launched August 1, 2015; shut down June 30, 2021 — it lived 5 years. One of 32 Google products killed in 2021. Google Expeditions was a virtual reality (VR) platform developed by Google and designed for educational institutions. Using Android or iOS smartphones, the companion mobile app and head-mounted displays such as Google Cardboard or Daydream View, students could take virtual trips to various destinations. Well-known partners included the American Museum of Natural History, National Geographic, WWF and the National Museum of Korea. The platform was discontinued on June 30, 2021, and was merged into Google Arts & Culture. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).