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Upgraded Google Cardboard brings VR to more phones

2015-05-28
I'm here at Google i/o we know that Google unveiled VR last year with cardboard and they're back with more cardboard this is a redesigned cardboard headset as opposed to the landscape where you're seeing a lot of expensive rigs Google is going cheap this VR rig works with a lot of phones and more phones six inches plus and with the new SDK you can create unity apps that are going to be iOS and Android compatible which means you could use this thing like some people already are for iPhone apps as well as Android there's also a whole new platform called jump that lets you shoot immersive videos using 16 connected GoPros if you want to make one of these movies yourself and they shoot in 3d videos so you're talking about 3d immersive video they're gonna make this jump platform available if you want to view some videos later this year on YouTube in the summer so right now I've got this one on looks pretty much the same there's a slightly different capacitive foam button on top but otherwise it's pretty much cardboard I'm Scott Stein at CNN
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