13 Facts About Google Cardboard

Google Cardboard is a discontinued virtual reality platform developed by Google.

Google Cardboard headsets are built out of simple, low-cost components.

In January 2016, Google Cardboard announced that the software development kits would support spatial audio, a virtual reality effect intended to simulate audio coming from outside of the listener's head located anywhere in 3D space.

In March 2016, Google released VR View, an expansion of the Cardboard SDK allowing developers to embed 360-degree VR content on a web page or in a mobile app, across desktop, Android, and iOS.

Google Cardboard said that it would continue "adding new features" to the project.

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Much as Google did with the Cardboard viewer, for Jump the company developed specifications for a circular camera array made from 16 cameras that it will release to the public.

GoPro partnered with Google Cardboard to build an array using their own cameras, although the Jump rig will theoretically support any camera.

Expeditions is a program for providing VR experiences to school classrooms through Google Cardboard viewers, allowing educators to take their students on virtual field trips.

In July 2017, Google Cardboard released a standalone version of the Expedition app, separating it from the platform's education initiative and making it available to the public.

In February 2015, toy manufacturer Mattel, in cooperation with Google Cardboard, announced a VR version of the stereoscopic viewer View-Master.

In December 2015, Google offered free Star Wars-themed Cardboard viewers through the Google Store and Verizon as a part of promotional tie-in for the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Success of Cardboard convinced Google to develop more advanced virtual reality hardware and appoint a new chief of virtual reality.

Google Cardboard Daydream was not widely adopted by consumers or developers, and in October 2019 Google Cardboard announced that the Daydream View headset had been discontinued and that they would no longer certify new devices for Daydream.