{"id":193534,"date":"2021-03-03T14:42:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T11:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/google-trashes-its-carboard-vr-googles-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T11:42:40","slug":"google-trashes-its-carboard-vr-googles-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-trashes-its-carboard-vr-googles-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#Google Trashes Its Carboard VR Googles \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Google Trashes Its Carboard VR Googles \u2013 Review Geek”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Seven years after its exciting 2014 launch<\/a>, Google has officially discontinued<\/a> its affordable Cardboard VR goggles. Google Cardboard\u2019s birth and death serve as bookends for the smartphone VR trend, which slowly suffocated under the popularity of cheap standalone headsets like the Oculus Quest and, of course, Google\u2019s waning interest in VR app<\/a> development.<\/p>\n

Fans of Cardboard aren\u2019t surprised to see the device go. In fact, they\u2019re surprised that Google sold the device for so long. Google officially ended Cardboard development<\/a> and discontinued its premium Daydream headset in 2019, choosing to open-source<\/a> its VR software for the sake of diehard fans. In recent months, the company has abandoned and open-sourced most of its full-scale VR applications, signaling its disinterest in any<\/em> VR applications, not just cheap smartphone VR.<\/p>\n

We are no longer selling Google Cardboard on the Google Store. We will continue to help the community build new experiences through our Cardboard open source project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, Google\u2019s knowledge of VR isn\u2019t going to waste. The company is deeply interested in AR and mixed-reality applications, utilizing AR in Maps, the Google Arts and Culture app, and even Google Search.<\/p>\n

And while Google\u2019s VR headsets are a thing of the past, you can still enjoy some smartphone VR applications with a 3rd party headset<\/a>. Just make sure that your phone actually fits into a headset before you buy it\u2014smartphones have grown a lot larger since smartphone VR became a trend in 2014.<\/p>\n

Source: Google<\/a> via Engadget<\/a><\/small>\n<\/div>\n