I came across a few videos on Youtube which can be viewed using Google cardboard.
I haven't heard of Google cardboard before although I now see it's been around for about a year.
Is this worth getting the goggles or is this a fad which has already peaked or perhaps never took off?
You can view *any* youtube vid in cardboard, but yes some are shot spherically and are more impressive
Closer to three
They're fun, several friends/relatives who I would never have expected to be interested in VR were fascinated by the demo apps, but not really much practical use.
Sounds interesting. I must try this.
There seem so many goggles to choose from on Amazon. Would either of these be a good start?
"Splaks 3D VR Virtual Reality Glasses V2"
"TechRise 3D VR Glasses Virtual Reality Box"
The second one doesn't mention having a magnetic switch* so I'd tend to go for the first one, which it looks better able to not get covered in grease from people's forehead, mine's just one of the brown corrugated cardboard ones
You don't particularly need the RFID tag, it used to automatically launch the app when you put your phone in it, but it doesn't seem to do it on latest version anyway, also no point unless your phone has NFC.
[*] just a magnet and an elastic band, but pulling it can be detected by your phone's compass and act as a "button".
Not a lot of use to those of us with monocular vision !
Andrew
In other news "Sun rises in the east!".
Tim
I was given some goggles for Christmas, and then the giver realised that I'm monocular....
You still get the virtual reality effect. You just don't get 3D. But then, for us monoculars, nothing is 3D, so it's reality.
Are you implying that you meet the minimum requirement to stand as monarch in the country of the blind?
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