We had 1.34 billion users in the first 24 hours and an average time spent on the site of over 4 minutes. Google also believes in better education available to all and we were thrilled to see teachers across the world pick this up and use it in their classrooms. The experiments were accessible via the web and extended beyond Chrome for any browsers that supported the technology used in the build.
Google believes in creating open and accessible tools and allowing for anytime anywhere access to information. The Music Lab experiments were translated into 40 different languages. The main technologies used are open libraries such as Tone.js and The Web Audio API which are available to the public.Ĭhrome music lab went live in parallel with a Google doodle celebrating the 105th birthday of the first women theremin player Clara Rockmore. We wanted a range of types of experiments that would allow anyone of any age discover music and by putting together a diverse team and remembering simplicity beats complexity, we were able to achieve that. We collaborated with musicians and coders to build simple easy to use tools that worked seamlessly across devices.
