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surely virtual reality is becoming the future for a lot of these companies in our tech but Google is really putting their best foot forward and they're doing so with a version of virtual reality that is not only affordable but it's pretty accessible and available to everybody hey it's Josh with regard from Android authority what's going on everybody and this is a look at the updated version of Google cardboard but one of the best enhancements of it is that all if you watch my video from last year I had a little bit of trouble putting it together there were quite a few steps that were required and I felt like a bit of a dunce because I couldn't get it together quite so easily but this year's iteration of cardboard especially the one that is now made for devices like the Nexus 6 is now in a more in easier to assemble package I should say so we're going to go ahead and just slide out all of the elements here we have this sleeve that we're gonna get out I'm gonna go through this setup with you guys right now so we're going to take that out of course simple Google design there on the bottom right we have some information right here including the viewer profile and see the apps and the product safety information there you go we have our instructions right here so our instructors pretty much tell us to bring the these portions down almost like Darth Vader there and then once those are velcroed into place the next thing we have to do is just bring that over and there we go cardboard is as easy to put together as it has ever been last year it took me I think I'd like a couple minutes and a little bit of video editing magic to get this things together but now we have the area here to put the phone in so if we were gonna work with let's say the Nexus 6 which I have right here it'll fit just fine there cardboard IO 2015 all right here we go let's go ahead and install some cardboard apps here so you can see that there are quite a few applications that are there one in particular I'm gonna download it I'm not really excited about it but it's called insidious VR oh god I don't want to get scared but I'm gonna do it okay I'm gonna download that let's see how big it is hundred ninety megabytes so it's gonna take a little bit oh wow this is terrifying things are happy they know the sound is really scary and I'm because I'm actually being shown things being thrown thrown at me it's pretty terrifying so that's just an example of the new cardboard like in terms of just the device centric feel of cardboard it has become bigger and able to take phones like the Nexus 6 which is really great but what really intrigues me about cardboard this year is the fact that cardboard will be made available for a lot of different platforms one of which being education now of course we can already going to be talking about in the coming months the fact that you can create the content for VR on your own using camera arrays and GoPro it's going to actually have one available and I'm sure it's gonna cost a fortune but what really gets me about cardboard now is that well it's just a piece of cardboard maybe a little bit of plastic over here and you're able to just sort of put it together after that you throw your smartphone in there and you'll be able to view pretty much anything and if we're able to create moments and scenes from pretty much anywhere in the world then basically what happens is that we can share what may not be shareable to particular people and an education that could be about going to places like in China or going to places across the world Egypt everywhere and actually seeing firsthand what we would only see in 2d in our textbooks I'm not that far removed from college but it with with an immersive experience from let's say my high school years of my junior high years it probably would have created an even better experience of schooling for someone like me that is very sensory of centric I need to be able to hear and see things in order to really connect with them rather than just reading them off of a page and being told what it's supposed to be about and cardboard might be the gateway that Google is creating for all of these kids and eventually it's going to become not only an immersive educational explain immersive experience all on its own and really it's all just through something like this there are obviously better VR headsets out there that will provide even better experiences but really that's not the point of cardboard the point is that it is democratizing the information in such a way that makes it better than anything we've had before fully immersive fully able to be seen in depth and telescopic ways and to become a part of those moments that's the thing about Google i/o is that it really provides those kinds of moments for people where they realize that Wow this this this future of technology is really looking pretty bright and if VR is the future well we have a pretty nice entry point right here so keep it tuned 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