http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/09/lg-google-cardboard-vr-headset-g3/
Google announced a few weeks ago that they were upgrading their cardboard project from a 20% project to a full google project and that select manufacturers would be creating "big, retail" versions of the Cardboard headset. They announced a bevvy of plastic headsets along with the announcement, but none from major retailers.
Here's the first one from a major carrier; LG's "VR for G3" headset:
Being a cardboard device, this has a few caveats different from Samsung's Gear VR headset:
-Uses cheap, internal IMUs built into your phone instead of high-end IMUs in the headset
-Uses default android as backend, with all the problems it brings (native triple buffering, now low persistence, etc) as opposed to the custom, built-by-john-carmack mode Gear VR's headset forces the Note 4 into
-Compatible with Google Cardboard and Duvoris Dive software (and stuff like Youtube VR), not compatible with Gear VR software (and vice versa).
In short, this is a high end, carrier-specific plastic version of google's cardboard. Being that it's literally just a plastic phone holder, it should be much cheaper than Gear VR but should also present a significantly lesser experience.
Google announced a few weeks ago that they were upgrading their cardboard project from a 20% project to a full google project and that select manufacturers would be creating "big, retail" versions of the Cardboard headset. They announced a bevvy of plastic headsets along with the announcement, but none from major retailers.
Here's the first one from a major carrier; LG's "VR for G3" headset:
Being a cardboard device, this has a few caveats different from Samsung's Gear VR headset:
-Uses cheap, internal IMUs built into your phone instead of high-end IMUs in the headset
-Uses default android as backend, with all the problems it brings (native triple buffering, now low persistence, etc) as opposed to the custom, built-by-john-carmack mode Gear VR's headset forces the Note 4 into
-Compatible with Google Cardboard and Duvoris Dive software (and stuff like Youtube VR), not compatible with Gear VR software (and vice versa).
In short, this is a high end, carrier-specific plastic version of google's cardboard. Being that it's literally just a plastic phone holder, it should be much cheaper than Gear VR but should also present a significantly lesser experience.