At Google I/O, Cardboard Won’t Necessarily Be Cardboard Anymore

Last yr , the most exciting affair at Google I / O wasa chunk of cardboard — composition board which could transform any smartphone into an uber - inexpensive practical reality headset . But Google is n’t stopping there . This twelvemonth , the troupe will “ announce some things around Cardboard that are n’t made of composition board , ” says Google ’s Clay Bavor . Intriguing .

Clay Bavor was the guy in charge of merchandise management and exploiter experience for Gmail , Google Drive , and Google Apps . But a couplet month back , the Wall Street Journal reported he ’d found a newfangled chore : he would leadan effort to turn Android into an operating system for practical reality .

I have n’t been capable to officially confirm that . In fact , the last clock time I spoke to the Google Cardboard squad , I could n’t even get them to intromit that they ever wanted to declare oneself more than a taste of virtual reality . It seemed like Cardboard was all about bit - size experiences and topnotch crummy headdress .

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But today , I caught up with Bavor on the fringe of the SVVR Expo in San Jose , California … and for sure enough , Google ’s ambitions for virtual reality are greater than that . Bavor articulate the original Cardboard was just the tip of the iceberg — the starting time of Google ’s journeying into the VR outer space . “ Our ambition do n’t end there , ” he assures me . He hints that though the original Cardboard was intentionally designed to be limited — without a headstrap to keep it on your head , and with a special field of view — those limitations might not last .

How will Google shake up the virtual reality landscape at Google I / group O on May 28th ? I ca n’t say , but Bavor reassure me that we ’ll want to be there — and that the future of Google Cardboard wo n’t necessarily be corrugate newspaper .

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