Virtual reality via Google Carboard now compatible with iPhone

We continue with the
announcements from Google which marked last night's conference and which concern
iPhone or iOS. This time, after theapps
and their “off-line” mode, Afterthe storage service
photo, we are going to talk about aiPhone accessoryand not
any one!

This is theCardboard, actually onehelmet
virtual realitycheap made incarton, dont
we were talking
just yesterdaywith the video projector pizza box. Google
persists and signs with a new version and an iPhone app:

It was last year that Google hit hard in the field of
virtual reality by offering a headset that stood out from the Oculus Rift and
its more than 1000 euros... For good reason, the assembly is done at home
cutting cardboard and plastic lenses.

Once the smartphone was in place, it opened the door to reality
virtual, a domain that we have seen
more details in our review of the Homido headset here.

This year,Cardboard returns, in one version
compatible with smartphones with a screen up to 6 inches. He is
therefore compatible withthe iPhone 6 and especially 6 Plus.

But to get the most out of it, you needed an app!

This is the second announcement from yesterday,an app for iPhone is
now available, Finallypresque. Because she is
actually released but uonly on the US App Store. On
can imagine it's only a matter of time before she joins
other countries, perhaps when Google markets its cardboard headset
elsewhere than in the US?

• the apps
  Google Cardboard is available here on the US App Store only

In any case, agreat idea to reveal reality
virtual, knowing that the cardboard version must nevertheless be tiring (it
must be held at arm's length) and that it must allow light to pass through
eye level, so it remains a truly entry-level solution to
minima.

For a higher but still reasonable budget, you can discover

the test of a helmet created in France here(the game to win it is over,
the winner is known,
see here).

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founder of the site. Computer engineer and Internet specialist where he has held various positions of responsibility, Laurent has been passionate about mobility since the arrival of "PDAs" in the 90s. Journalist for 4 years for the magazine Team Palmtops (Posse Presse) and author of several books on the iPad published by Pearson.