Google Cardboard Now Works With iOS

Google ’s Clay Bavor just told everyone at Google I / O that there are over a million Google Cardboard headset in the world today . There ’s about to be a whole lot more : he also just announce that Google Cardboard ’s Virtual Reality apps are heading to iPhone .

Bavor practically herald the crabbed - platform reinforcement with a shrug , promptly moving on to talk about Google Cardboard ’s new teaching opening ( more on that in a second)—but bringing its VR apps to Io is a big deal : there ’s still no standardized platform for mobile VR applications yet , and Google is place Cardboard front and center . Worried your iPhone 6 Plus wo n’t fit today ’s headsets ? Do n’t be : Bavor says a new interlingual rendition of Cardboard is set in motion today that well jibe 6 - column inch telephone , and it comes together in just three wanton - to - perform folds . courteous .

You ’ll have plenty to watch , too : Google says that 360 - degree YouTube videos are now uncommitted onGoogle Cardboardfor both Android twist and Apple devices running iOS 8.0 and above . It ’s also introducingGoogle Jump — a 16 camera rig that standardize the creation of 360 - arcdegree VR content . The rigs are already usable at all six global YouTube spaces , too .

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As awesome as a multi - platform VR subject system sounds , Bavor was more interested in talking about education . Today , Google is announce Google Expeditions , a packaged schooling computer programme that outfits classrooms with Google Cardboard kits and special apps that can push the same Cardboard experience to dozens of devices . The idea ? Cheap , virtual reality field trip .

Google is wreak immediately with museum to create curated , schooltime - center experiences , and schools and teacher can bless up for the program start today . eventually , a reason for kids to be using their earpiece in class .

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