{"id":778,"date":"2016-03-31T13:49:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2016-03-31T13:49:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:49:45","slug":"5-awesome-things-you-can-do-with-google-cardboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/5-awesome-things-you-can-do-with-google-cardboard\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Awesome Things You Can Do With Google Cardboard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google Cardboard turns your smartphone into a full-on virtual reality device without the high price tag. It’s\u00a0made out of exactly what you\u2019d expect, but its pieces come together to hold your smartphone in front of your face for use with VR\u00a0apps.<\/p>\n

RELATED: The 17 Coolest Things We Saw at CES<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

With your phone acting as the display and your homemade headset holding it in the right place, Google Cardboard presents itself as a lower-impact\u00a0Oculus Rift<\/a>. There are a\u00a0variety of Cardboard-style headsets<\/a>\u00a0available for purchase from the official Google Cardboard website. Some are fancier than others, but you can expect to pay $20\u2013$30 for your own. (May we recommend the\u00a0Star<\/i>\u00a0Wars<\/i><\/a>-themed\u00a0Cardboard<\/a>?) After punching out the pieces and putting it all together, there are a number of apps to use that respond to head motions, immersing the wearer in a virtual reality landscape. These apps feature a designated \u201cWorks With Google Cardboard\u201d logo so you know that they are specialized.<\/p>\n

The Cardboard-compatible apps are cataloged on this page of the\u00a0Google Play store<\/a>, and they run the gamut.\u00a0Titans of Space<\/a>\u00a0is a virtual reality tour of our solar system and outer space. A game called\u00a0WAA!<\/i>\u00a0i<\/a>mmerses you in a field of asteroids.\u00a0Sisters<\/a>\u00a0presents itself as a terrifying ghost story game, and for the more utility-minded, an app called\u00a0Tilt Brush Gallery<\/a>\u00a0lets you view sketches in 3D. This only scratches the surface, but they all serve the same purpose: to transport the app\u2019s user to some place that is otherwise completely impossible to get to. With that in mind, here are five cool things you can do with Google Cardboard.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Virtual Reality Check<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Take 360-degree photos and send them to friends.<\/h2>\n

The camera in your smartphone is all you need to generate an immersive virtual reality-style photograph that someone can pan and scan through from their own Cardboard setup. Google\u2019s proprietary photo app will stitch together the many photos required to make an entirely 360-degree experience, and it will even record live audio from the scene you\u2019re capturing.<\/p>\n

Read the paper in an entirely new way.<\/h2>\n

The\u00a0NYT VR app<\/a>\u00a0provides users with news stories in virtual reality format \u201cevery month or so.\u201d Content is one of the most obvious things to be reinvented by virtual reality technology, and the New York Times is one of the first media companies to get serious about being ready to have serious offerings when VR proliferates.<\/p>\n

Disappear inside virtual game worlds.<\/h2>\n

Whether you\u2019re investigating the spooky scenes of\u00a0Insidious Chapter 3<\/a>\u00a0or falling out of the sky in\u00a0Caaaaardboard!<\/a>, Cardboard can embed\u00a0you\u00a0in a daydream escape fantasy taking place on your smartphone screen. Just don\u2019t let your boss catch you using it at work.<\/p>\n

Explore the real world.<\/h2>\n

Browsing Google Street View through virtual reality goggles is sure to be nostalgic or adventurous depending on where you decide to \u201cgo.\u201d Tour your old hometown, or brave the freezing temps of\u00a0Antarctica<\/a>\u00a0from the comfort of your current home. An app called Orbulus zooms in on destinations of note, allowing you to explore everything from the Sydney Opera House to Paris at night.<\/p>\n

Watch regular media in a new way.<\/h2>\n

An app called\u00a0VR Cinema<\/a>\u00a0renders your stored video into split-screen format compatible for VR hardware, like Cardboard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VR\u00a0Dylan Love, Men’s Journal Google Cardboard turns your smartphone into a full-on virtual reality device without the high price tag. It’s\u00a0made out of exactly what you\u2019d expect, but its pieces come together to hold your smartphone in front of your face for use with VR\u00a0apps. RELATED: The 17 Coolest Things We Saw at CES With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-technology","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelseypro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}