Today Google dished out a second-generation version of Google Cardboard to Google I/O attendees. We took ours for a spin and tried its new support for 6-inch phones the only way we knew how: by ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Google may have gotten the jump on inexpensive virtual reality kits by introducing Cardboard to Android-owning smartphone owners, but Microsoft isn't content to stay out of the race.

In the span of roughly six months, over half a million people are slapping cardboard to their faces and escaping into virtual reality thanks to Google. Now, just as some of the best virtual reality ...

It's been a big week for virtual and augmented reality technology, thanks to the newly shipping Oculus Rift, the debut of a Google Cardboard development kit for iOS, and initial availability of ...

Google Cardboard, the previous VR platform, might be dead, but Google is finding other ways to put cardboard in people's hands. Last May, it introduced its AIY DIY AI Voice kit that leveraged the ...

For those interested in making mobile VR experiences deployed through the web, Google has example code to get you started. One exciting thing about web-based VR is its ability to be widely deployed.

Google Cardboard is a cardboard smartphone holder that is designed to use your smartphone to make a VR entertainment system on the cheap. Microsoft now has a competitor to Google Cardboard that has ...

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As a Thanksgiving spur of the moment project we are trying to spin up some Google cardboard 2.0 rigs. We got lenses (unexpected that they would arrive so quickly, hence spur of the moment). I think ...

Microsoft appears to be taking inspiration from Google Cardboard with “VR Kit” for Windows phones. Much like Cardboard, VR Kit aims to enable cheap virtual reality through a cardboard box with a pair ...

On the list of Things You Didn’t Expect Google To Do This Week, you can put “create a black market around cardboard” at the very top. Shortly after the company declared it was giving away cardboard VR ...

Software giant Microsoft seems keen on creating its very own virtual reality kit, which is presumably aimed to rival the Google Cardboard. The company looks like it is presently working on a ...