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okay I'll show you how to use the Google i/o piece of cardboard I guess I don't is there another name for this your Android phone with geek are per app on it so let's just get right to it detach here just gonna go ahead and put the phone in like this all right there you go okay it's put together now I'm gonna try it out I'm gonna put it on you know we have this has this little rubber band thing here that goes around my head I think my head and my hair is a little too big for that right now I don't thing is going to stay on I've actually tried it already so I'm not gonna use app is going to hold it up to my face like so and right now I can see a bunch of options see tutorial tour guide exhibit windy day earth YouTube photosphere and Street View and depending on where I look I get different options I'm going to go to the windy day and I can do that once I look at my selection I can select it by clicking this little button here alright this snowy environment and it's this little mouse guy I've seen before oh there he is he's right there I have to turn all the way around or to see him not to say my eyes take a minute to adjust to see both images as one image okay I want to go to Street View now let me see if I can go back and doing this okay that's how you go back to home Street View is just like a time-lapse first-person video view of you going through a city all right and that's a virtual reality right there really virtually no costs all you need is the cardboard the phone and the app so if you can get that pizza box you know you may be able to build your own virtual reality headset it's pretty cool I like it you have to spend 300 bucks on an oculus rift or wait for the sony Morpheus you can just use your Android phone it's pretty cool uh anyway for more tips and tricks go to how to dot cnn.com I'm Eric Franke