Google offers Cardboard path to virtual reality
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 04:30
in Mathematics & Economics
With some DIY spirit and appreciation of virtual reality immersion, you can have the VR experience. You need little more than cardboard and some items that you can pick up at your local hardware store. Google has its own egalitarian virtual reality solution, announced this week at I/O 2014. Its launch is a delightful outcome of Google's creatives. A team from something called the Cardboard project has figured out how to bring virtual reality on your smartphone using inexpensive, accessible, everyday objects for a headset. The headset ingredients include cardboard, lenses, magnets, Velcro, a rubber band and, if you like, an near-field communications (NFC) tag. Got cardboard? Google's project team asks. Then download Cardboard (the app).