Google surprised the VR community when it revealed Cardboard, a super low-cost VR smartphone adapter, last year at the company’s annual developer conference. Although started as a hobby-level project, ...

Last week Google surprised the crowd at I/O 2014 with the reveal of Cardboard, a low-cost VR smartphone adapter which the company gave away to every developer in attendance. Google, who praise Oculus ...

Want to experience virtual reality, Google-style? Then get out the scissors: Google’s plans for VR are still very much in a do-it-yourself spirit, despite a new partnership with GoPro that will make a ...

Google is putting a lot of its virtual reality focus right now on its Daydream VR framework, but today Amit Singh, the company’s VP of VR, also gave an update on its earlier (and still active) effort ...

Once you download the plans, you can trace them onto cardboard and carefully cut and score the pieces using a sharp hobby knife and other simple tools. Here is what the finished product will look like ...

Beyond a small faction of developers and die-hard techies, most are probably unfamiliar with virtual reality. Perhaps you've heard of the Oculus Rift, but you can't really articulate what it is or how ...

Google reported that more than 10 million Cardboard virtual reality viewers have been shipped and more than 160 million Cardboard apps have been downloaded, with 30 of these having more than 1 million ...

The amount of Google Cardboard app downloads has doubled in just the past four months. Today, onstage at I/O, Google’s head of VR, Clay Bavor, announced that the company had seen downloads on the ...

Seeing as Google Cardboard is an Android-first device, you might not be surprised that there are much better Android VR apps than there are for iPhone. We've trawled through plenty of the best Google ...

Developers who attended the Google I/O conference in San Francisco today were given two things to thank them for their attendance: a new Android Wear smartwatch (either the LG G Watch or the Samsung ...

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You open your eyes, and you're standing in the middle of the street in Tokyo. Click: You're on 7th Avenue, in New York City. Click, click, click, and you're traveling around the world at warp speed.