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On the Significance of Google's New Cardboard (Video)
On June 29, 2014, Timothy started a Slashdot post with these words: 'Last week at Google I/O, the company introduced Cardboard, its cheap-and-cheerful (it's made of cardboard, after all) approach to nearly instant VR viewing.' Several commenters noted that Viewmaster has been doing something similar for over 70 years; that you can get a slicker 3-D adapter for your smartphone from Durovis, with the Vrizzmo VR Goggles and vrAse coming soon; and that you can buy an iPhone/iPod Touch-only 3-D viewer for about $8 (at the time this was typed), which is a whole lot less than the price of most third-party Cardboard kits that are getting ready to hit the market. ||
The Google person behind The Cardboard is VP Clay Bavor, whose day job is overseeing Google apps. Clay says you are welcome to make your own Cardboard from scratch instead of buying one (or a kit) from someone else, and of course you can write all the software for it you like. || You may (or may not) remember that Timothy ended that June 29 post about Cardboard with a promise that before long we'd have 'a video introduction to Cardboard with Google VP Clay Bavor.' So here it is, as promised. (Alternate Video Link)
I was sure that said vrArse - I was wondering about Uber realistic toileting apps.....
Is there an aluminum version for the iPhone?
Right, cause cheap/free VR certainly isn't of interest to the slashdot crowd.
Flash video? Seriously? Slashdot continues its slide into irrelevance.
Is there an aluminum version for the iPhone?
Don't know about the iShinies, but according to this ad, er, link, from TFS, someone will be making one for Android devices.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Been watching the firehose submissions as a kind of hobby for the last few hours while monitoring machine processes and I can assure you, this was not part of anything submitted. Perhaps on a slow news day, but... this post just seems so lame to begin with.
You can't be ahead of the curve, if you're stuck in a loop.
Who wants an ugly, brown and boxy piece of cardboard on their face? Our grey aluminum "Cardboard" has rounded corners!
I'd hardly consider a device that requires use of a $300+ smartphone to be "cheap," and definitely not free.
If only you could DIY that bit, too, eh?
*Still* negative function...
I'd hardly consider a device that requires use of a $300+ smartphone to be "cheap," and definitely not free.
If only you could DIY that bit, too, eh?
... For less than several hundred bucks, yea.
I mean, sure, right now you could probably get an R-pi or BeagleBone Black, a couple small, hi-res screens, an NFC shield, etc. and cobble together your own solution; but when all is said and done, would it be any cheaper than just using a Galaxy S3?
Hey, mebbe we're onto something here...
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
...is what this should be called =]
maybe
Are you saying, VR pr0n is already available? Nope, not yet...
Seriously, though, it may be "of interest", but not so much interest, that it merits a mention every two weeks. Hardly news — neither for nerds nor for others.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Ok, how about this:
"Someone at Apple HQ sneezed."
Better?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
That idea is actually pretty cool. Using the compass to control the VR-App seems like pure genius.
Shouldn't the design be in side-by-side 3D format?
Sometimes I worry that I'll develop Alzheimer's disease, but no one will notice.
It's a Stereo-Opticon from the 1800's. They were extremely popular, for about a hundred years. Pretty good run for a product. The later ones were called ViewMaster.
But these have the computing power to have movement!