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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For those interested in making mobile VR experiences deployed through the web, Google has example code to get you started. One exciting thing about web-based VR is its ability to be widely deployed.

is a pretty cool concept. But making your own headset for the novelty of a handful of VR apps is a daunting task, if only because it requires some very specific lenses and magnets inside all that ...

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is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Google says it’s shipped 10 million ...