Category: Google Cardboard

Google’s inexpensive Virtual Reality viewer, Google Cardboard, has been added to several local Google Stores around the globe for purchase.  Now Android users in Canada, France, the UK, and Germany can order the viewer from their local Google Store online so they can experience Google’s low cost entry into VR.  To this point the viewer, which essentially wraps around your phone and is made of, you guessed it, cardboard, was only available in the US.  For those that don’t remember, Cardboard began life as a freebie handout at Google I/O 2014 but earlier this year the company began selling it on their site along with some other, more stylish viewers.

Google Cardboard, the app, has been updated with an all-new VR journey for users to enjoy.  The new Arctic Journey brings a fun albeit short demo of what you can do with Cardboard and is a good bit of fun.  In the demo, you can fly along side Arctic terns, you can plant flowers in a field and just enjoy the scenery and stars through your VR goggles.  Again, it’s short but it is well done and accessible in the main menu of the app.

If you are new to the app, this is the main app you use to start with Google’s low cost VR experience.  Here you can do things like fly around on Google Earth, take a tour of historic locations, watch your videos and view any Photo Spheres that you have created.  The Arctic Journey is just adding on to these basic experiences in the app.