Speak to Go is a WebVR experiment that allows anyone with a phone and a mobile VR Viewer to ‘visit’ any location in the world simply by saying where they want to go.

With the Chrome browser on a desktop – and the microphone enabled – users can tap the space bar, say an address and Google will take them to that exact location (so long as Street View data is available). Name a city or a country, and it will land you at a random location in that place.

Things get more impressive when a Google Cardboard headset is used with a mobile and the potential of WebVR to create an immersive experience really comes through.

Speak to Go combines WebVR, Google Maps API, Web Speech API, Google Cardboard (or Google Daydream), along with hardware such as the microphone and gyroscope in a phone. It was first prototyped during one of Google’s WebVr hackathons and was then taken forward for public launch.

View all the winning work from The Annual 2018 here.

Entrant/Creative Agency: Google Creative Lab.