Improved cardboard VR glasses get iOS app

Google has announced a new version of its cardboard VR glasses Cardboard. The new design can now accommodate smartphones with screens up to 6 “. In addition, the Cardboard app will also be available for iOS.

According to Google, the cardboard design of the cheap VR glasses is easier to assemble than the design introduced during the previous I/O meeting: instead of twelve steps, there are only three. The Cardboard button has also been changed, releasing the magnetic design. Google also announced that a Cardboard app for iOS will be available and that one million units have already been sold.

Also new is Expeditions. For example, VR images from several Cardboard carriers can be synchronized. During Google I/O, a demonstration was shown in which a teacher has all his students look at the same VR images. Furthermore, Google, together with GoPro, showed a setup that it has developed to shoot VR images relatively cheaply. The device consists of sixteen GoPro cameras arranged in a circular arrangement. With new software from Google, which has been developed under the code name Jump, the images can be constructed and put on YouTube.