Cardboard: virtual reality on your smartphone

Among the more interesting “products” introduced at last month’s was Google Cardboard, a do-it-yourself virtual reality kit. Google with Cardboard allows anyone to experience virtual reality in a fun and cheap way.

How? Transforming your smartphone into a basic VR headset. Cardboard works in a similar way to an Oculus Rift. It’s made from unexpensive materials: a pre-cut cardboard folded around 1.5 millimetres thick, velcro strips, a magnet, an elastic band and two 45-millimeter focal distance lenses…that’s all! The headset is designed to work with most Android phones.

Google Cardboard works with an app available to download from the Google Play Store. Virtual reality technology is rapidly developing becoming day by day more and more accessible! Download the . Try the Chrome experiment.