He heads up Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive, which are arguably three of Google's most important products, but he's also the guy overseeing Cardboard. "Our goal with Cardboard was really to make virtual reality accessible, affordable, easy and fun," said Clay Bavor, a VP of Product for Google. But in order for VR to be part of our world, it needs to be easier and cheaper to access. After all, Facebook has already said that one of the reasons it purchased Oculus was to explore new ways of communicating.
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Both cost hundreds of dollars - heck, the consumer version of the Rift along with a VR-ready PC will likely cost upward of $1,500 - which makes them out of reach of most consumers.Īnd with the addition of Sony's Project Morpheus and the recently announced HTC Vive, it's clear that VR is becoming an important part of the tech landscape, with use cases far beyond just gaming. The only ways to get into VR was either to get your hands on an Oculus Rift developer kit or one of Samsung's Gear VR headsets. Until Cardboard, virtual reality has been largely inaccessible.
Education, not gaming, is what will make VR palatable to the masses. It's bringing that same power of VR beyond just playing games and watching a movie. An Oculus Rift? Not so much.īut it wasn't until I tried out Expeditions that I understood the power of Google's Cardboard. Which is why it's all the more incredible that all it took was a piece of cardboard, a couple of lenses and a phone, to replicate the same thing. I've strapped prototypes of the Oculus Rift, Samsung's Gear VR as well as the recently announced HTC Vive to my noggin and was blown away by the experiences on all of them.
There are already hundreds of places they can go: the Great Barrier Reef Verona, Italy and yes, Mars. All of the devices are perfectly synchronized.
Essentially a tool for teachers and other educators, a standard Expeditions kit has 30 phones and Cardboard viewers plus a tablet for the teacher, who acts as the tour guide. Expeditions is the third VR-related announcement at this year's I/O, but it's arguably Google's strongest effort yet at mainstreaming it.
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