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dyslexic [soylentnews.org] writes:

Google handed out pieces of cardboard at this year's I/O 2014, but not any old piece of cardboard. This one piece of cardboard could change everything — sort of.
You take the cardboard, cut it out, add a rubber band, two magnets, some Velcro and magnifying glasses and you have a virtual reality viewer.
No this isn't a joke.
And no you don't just look through the holes and pretend that the real world is virtual.
What you do is place a mobile phone so that the screen is visible through the magnifying lenses. You then have to use a free app that Google has created and view its output through the lenses. Your eyes are presented with two stereo images and hence you see the result in 3D.
The free app lets you use Google services such as YouTube and Google Earth. There is also a Chrome Experiment that you can use to try out a VR game, music video and a classic 3D stereoscopic photo. There is also a VR Toolkit, complete with tutorial, that you can use to create your own Android VR app.
You see — innovation is alive and well at Google.
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/190-augmentedvirtual-reality-arvr/7469-the-most-exciting-thing-at-google-io-a-piece-of-cardboard.html [i-programmer.info]
https://developers.google.com/cardboard/ [google.com]

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