Introducing Google Cardboard

How are you supposed to hold it on your head? Do they really expect us to provide our own giant rubber bands?*

*The one in the image is apparently to hold something else in place, because there is no way that is going to fit around my fat head...
 
MrCaffeineX said:
How are you supposed to hold it on your head? Do they really expect us to provide our own giant rubber bands?*

*The one in the image is apparently to hold something else in place, because there is no way that is going to fit around my fat head...
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It's obviously for laying in bed and watching Pr0nHub
 
Perhaps your hands? It' not like the phone in it is geared towards using some additional controller besides touch, which you can't do and position.

Google. One step closer to bringing VR porn to the masses.
 
raz-0 said:
Perhaps your hands? It' not like the phone in it is geared towards using some additional controller besides touch, which you can't do and position.

Google. One step closer to bringing VR porn to the masses.
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Actually, if you read through the project page, there's a neodymium magnet used as a control device; the phone's magnetometer senses that the magnet has moved, and the Cardboard app responds in kind. Really, it's ingenious how simple it is.
 
I took this as Google slamming Facebook for spending $2 Billion on something that could be approximated with just cardboard and a cell phone.
 
buzzbomb said:
Actually, if you read through the project page, there's a neodymium magnet used as a control device; the phone's magnetometer senses that the magnet has moved, and the Cardboard app responds in kind. Really, it's ingenious how simple it is.
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Actually from reading it, it kind of sounds like you can't control much and it doesn't work.

I guarantee you tilt and position will be the primary control for anything made.
 
This is just a demonstration for the 3D API they created.
They gave these "glasses" away at Google I/O, but they don't seem to have any plans to actually sell them to the public.

As far as controls go, you would have to use a bluetooth gamepad with it, if you wanted more than just the single magnet button.
 
Metal gear acid 2 did this they called it solid eye they had a card paper thing you fit over the psp to give this 3d effect.
 
GaryJohnson said:
If that's the case, aren't they also "slamming" their own Google Glasses?
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Glass isn't VR, it's AR at best. Oculus Rift (as purchased by Facebook) is pure VR, and this proves that you can get the same experience with actual garbage and your phone.
 
One of these days Google will produce a product that doesn't look like it was built by children with the cheapest components available.
 
buzzbomb said:
Actually, if you read through the project page, there's a neodymium magnet used as a control device; the phone's magnetometer senses that the magnet has moved, and the Cardboard app responds in kind. Really, it's ingenious how simple it is.
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Also, you can use a bluetooth controller. (Such as a Wii or PS3 controller).
 
buzzbomb said:
Glass isn't VR, it's AR at best. Oculus Rift (as purchased by Facebook) is pure VR, and this proves that you can get the same experience with actual garbage and your phone.
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You can get the same experience with VR and a camera that you can get with AR on a transparent display. The difference is VR can also do pure VR. So the phone+garbage combo can give you the same experience as either and has more functionality than both because it can do both things.

It's clearly not "exactly" the same experience in either case though. The Occulus and Glass both are probably both much more durable and more comfortable to wear.

I've also seen some Occulus models with cameras on them. So someone has at least explored doing AR on the Occulus.
 
Also the Durovis OpenDive Lens Kit they recommend (though currently out of stock, I wonder why) comes with a cloth head strap.
 
buzzbomb said:
Glass isn't VR, it's AR at best. Oculus Rift (as purchased by Facebook) is pure VR, and this proves that you can get the same experience with actual garbage and your phone.
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This is all true but now I want one. I wonder if I can substitute my kid's magnifying glasses they use for their bug terrarium.
 
buzzbomb said:
Glass isn't VR, it's AR at best. Oculus Rift (as purchased by Facebook) is pure VR, and this proves that you can get the same experience with actual garbage and your phone.
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Google Glass is IR (invasive reality) or PIFR (punched in the face reality) and the Rift is a 1990's era fad now festooned with a Like button. :p
 
Hell yes. I've been thinking of ways to make my phone hands-free because of Chicago's hands-free cellphone ordinance. This might just do the trick!
 
Can't wait to see people driving with this thing on and them telling the officer it is a hands free device.
 
I think this would be just fine for a taste of passive 3d content.

If it was mucous-proof, it would be great for porn.
 
GaryJohnson said:
If that's the case, aren't they also "slamming" their own Google Glasses?
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Google Glasses don't do 3D.

Nor did Google spend $2Billion+ for a company that makes them.

It really shouldn't be that difficult for you to understand these simple distinctions.
 
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