![]() ![]() You can actually walk around on this one. Tuscany Drive – Take a very nice walk around a Tuscan villa and it’s grounds looking out over the sea. Here’s some really good 3D virtual reality stuff you can download from the Google Play store to blow your socks off with these cardboard glasses. Make sure you download that first to get a feel for the glasses. ![]() You Tube – Choose a video from a 3D wall of popular picks, then watch it on a giant drive in screen that fills your field of vision. It’s worth using headphones for this clip Windy Day – this lovely bit of VR storytelling feels like something from the Pixar archives (and in fact was created by a Pixar director). Photo Sphere – Have you ever snapped any photos using Android’s panorama feature? Here’s your chance to get a real 360 degree view of them Flick the magnet View-Master style to move from one exhibit to the next C’est Excellent !Įxhibit – Check out colourful 3D-modelled art exhibits of various masks. Street Vue – Take to the streets of Paris on a fast journey along the main roads but you can stop anywhere along the way by flicking the magnet for a virtual reality 360 degree view of the surroundings. This is accompanied by an interesting tour guide audio of what you’re looking at Look up and down and all around to examine the detail. Very you will be immersed inside great panoramas of various rooms and the grounds outside. Tour Guide – Here’s your chance to explore the Palace of Versailles. And it can also fly you all the way into space, which is where you’ll choose another destination looking down upon the earth! They are –Įarth – this demo lets you fly around a city or mountainside, looking up to fly up and down to fly down, and in any direction to steer left/right Flicking the magnetic button pauses and starts your movement. Go on to the Google Play store and download ‘Google Cardboard’ as this has several starter 3D VR clips to view through the Google Cardboard. It’s that easy! Now you have the cardboard glasses ready to go, you need something to look at. Now you just hold them up to your face and over your eyes and attach the elastic strap around your head. You just pop your phone into the flap and fold it up to the lenses and it’s held in place firmly with two Velcro squares. ![]() It’s foolproof and you just match the numbered tabs up and with a tiny strip of sticky foam to hold it all together you have Google Cardboard glasses within 5 minutes! All I had to do was follow the folding instructions printed inside. Through the post came a sheet of cardboard with all of the above attached to it. ![]() I used a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (which is a bit big) with these cardboard glasses but I had to mod the glasses a bit by cutting out a small slit where my volume button sits just so it wasn’t activated during use. Note – Your phone needs to be running at least android 4.1 to use these glasses and you cannot wear your own prescription glasses whilst using them! I wear glasses and was okay using these without wearing mine. I mean – how can a pair of plastic lenses, a metal washer plus magnet, NFC tag and some cardboard allow me to dip my sceptical toe into the waters of 3D virtual reality? It sounds like some sort of prank to catch an unsuspecting lunatic Amazon reviewer out! When I was asked to review Google Cardboard I thought somebody was having a laugh. The device supports phones with a screen size up to 6″ – and due to the new capacitive touch pushbutton input – supports most modern smart phones. This Google Cardboard Kit supports a wide range of 3D virtual reality apps and games – available for both iPhone and Android. The second iterations of the perfect solution for Virtual Reality on a budget! Compatible with Android and iPhone devices (application /device dependent). The Google Cardboard Version 2.0 Virtual Reality headset. ![]()
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