Google comes with its own VR headset and IMAX camera system for 360-degree video

Google not only makes a reference design of a VR headset for smartphones available, but also releases one of its own. In addition, the company is partnering with multiple manufacturers for new 360-degree video Jump camera systems, including IMAX.

Not only are partners coming this fall with headsets and controllers based on the Daydream reference design, but Google itself is also making and will make them available, Clay Bavor of Google’s VR team told Thursday at Google I/O 2016. Google revealed on Wednesday. an extensive VR platform called Daydream, for which Android N is optimized and consists of hardware and apps. Google prescribes what the headset, controller and smartphone must meet in order to work well in combination with the platform.

Numerous Google apps and applications from others are being made suitable for operation in the virtual space, including the Play Store itself. These are headsets that require a smartphone to work, similar to the Samsung Gear VR. Google already has its own viewer, the Cardboard, but that is a cheap folding cardboard variant.

Bavor also announced new partners for the Jump VR platform during his session. This is the camera setup project that allows you to record 360-degree videos. Last year, Google announced a system with 16 GoPros, designed in collaboration with that company. Added to this are an action camera system in collaboration with the Chinese Yi and a cinema-quality setup that Google makes with IMAX.