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Cardboard Hits Half a Million Mark, Gets an SDK

Posted by timothy on from the or-you-can-make-it-yourself dept.

PC Magazine reports (citing a blog post from project manager Andrew Nartker) that Google's Cardboard -- first introduced to some laughter -- is growing up, with a small but growing collection of compatible apps and a recently announced SDK. And while Cardboard itself is pretty low-tech (cardboard, rubber band, a magnet) and consequently cheap, the resulting VR experience is pretty good, which explains why more than 500,000 of them have now shipped.

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  1. Wow! Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Out of pure curiosity to see how far this technology can go, does anyone know of a porn site using this?

    Like I said, just for research purposes.