Virtual reality may be one of the most important new frontiers in tech. But its pioneers still need to sell the public on the idea of reality-escaping face computers. Enter Google Cardboard. When ...

When Google unveiled its own do-it-yourself cardboard virtual reality headset at the I/O conference on Wednesday, Joe Heitzeberg and Ethan Lowry were bombarded with messages. That’s because the ...

Google Cardboard has, on more than one occasion, been referred to around this office as "the poor man's virtual reality headset." Of course, the PCMag office isn't like other offices—we get to play ...

A little over a year ago, Google capped off its I/O developer conference keynote with a curious device: Cardboard, a cheap virtual reality viewer made primarily out of its namesake material, a pair of ...

In 2015, Google launched its formal entry into the world of mobile-powered virtual reality. Cardboard was revolutionary in the way it empowered VR experiences with nothing but, well, a makeshift ...

Take a trip without ever leaving the house. Want to take a virtual tour of Stonehenge? How about downtown Chicago? Or your very own town? It’s now possible thanks to Google’s Street View app ...

Google Cardboard enables its wearer to use a smartphone to enter the world of virtual reality. This week we got the chance to speak with Google's Andrew Nartker, product manager for Cardboard on what ...

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Google Cardboard is getting pretty popular, and Google has today announced a new program called “Works with Google Cardboard” that unifies all the third-party viewers that have cropped up with a cute ...

Today Google dished out a second-generation version of Google Cardboard to Google I/O attendees. We took ours for a spin and tried its new support for 6-inch phones the only way we knew how: by ...

Google giving up on one of their projects and leaving its established userbase twisting in the wind hardly counts as news anymore. In fact, it’s become something of a meme. The search giant is ...

Google Cardboard started off as just a toy, but a recent internal move could be another sign of bigger virtual reality ambitions. Jon Wiley, who previously headed design for Google Search, is now the ...