Virtual reality is today big news. Arguably much of the resurgence in interest is down to Oculus, the company that surprised everyone in 2012 with a fabulously successful Kickstarter campaign to build its Rift VR headset. The company had been acquired by Facebook in 2014 for the previously inconceivable sum of $2bn. The consumer version was duly announced last summer. Samsung partnered with Oculus in 2014 to create Gear VR, a lightweight HMD designed to be driven by a Galaxy smartphone running Android. Google conceived an ultra-lo-fi HMD that you can construct from pizza-box cardboard. It’s an experience that sells VR to the masses: indeed, Google claims that more than five million people own Cardboard viewers.
If you insist that it’s just another passing tech fashion, you may enjoy Google’s alternative April Fool, the Google Cardboard Plastic. It’s not virtual reality, nor augmented reality. It’s just reality seen through plastic: Google Cardboard Plastic combines everything you love about virtual reality headsets with everything you love about reality. Most realistic headset! The future is clear.
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