Friday Fun: Google Plastic

Virtual reality is today big news. Arguably much of the resurgence in interest is down to Oculus, the company that surprised everyone in 2012 with a fabulously successful Kickstarter campaign to build its Rift VR headset. The company had been acquired by Facebook in 2014  for the previously inconceivable sum of $2bn. The consumer version was duly announced last summer. Samsung partnered with Oculus in 2014 to create Gear VR, a lightweight HMD designed to be driven by a Galaxy smartphone running Android. Google conceived an ultra-lo-fi HMD that you can construct from pizza-box cardboard. It’s an experience that sells VR to the masses: indeed, Google claims that more than five million people own Cardboard viewers.

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