Anyone tried Google Cardboard?

[kendoka15]

Knowing my DK2 will arrive in 1-2 months, I've ordered a Google Cardboard kit from Dodocase.com (no hobby shops with the right lenses in my area + laziness) and I can't wait 😄

How is it and how does it compare to the DK1?

[firstdayreviews]

I ordered a kit from DOOD cases, its been a couple weeks and still hasn't shipped so they must be really behind.

I've been using it on my Note 3 and its pretty cool, I can kinda use my hands to make a binocular shape and see in 3d, although because I don't have lenses I have to un focus my eyes to get the 3d effect and thus making it blurry haha

still very cool though!

[kendoka15]

I did the exact same thing :lol:

[Simulator3000]

I bought a custom one off eBay for a tenner, pretty much the same as the official Google one. Just a couple of cardboard templates that you have to cut out, 4 pieces of velcro and 2 lenses.

I didn't get a DK1 but I can't imagine that it's anywhere near the same quality, both build and immersion wise. Unfortunately I have an iPhone not an Android one so there's only really one app that can be used with it (a rollercoaster sim).My younger sisters had a lot of fun with it, pretty cool to mess around with while waiting for our DK 2's to arrive!'

[dolomite]

I'm not sure what the big fuss is with Google Cardboard. If anything, it reminds me of a more expensive cardboard version of this from like 3 years ago : Hasbro My3D

And didn't Palmer Lucky actually built one even way before he conceived of the Rift itself?

[kendoka15]

"dolomite" wrote:
I'm not sure what the big fuss is with Google Cardboard.

The fuss is that this is a great proof of concept for mobile VR and lets people try VR for a very low cost
Also, smartphones nowadays have 1080p+ displays and sluggish but functional sensors for head tracking

[Fynnpire]

I built my own using some cardboard I had from a box a kids toy came in (it was my sons birthday last week). I downloaded the template, printed it out, glued to the cardboard and then cut it out.

The lenses were harder to find. Though I took a guess and pulled apart an old pair of binoculars I had. Lo and behold, inside were the perfect size lenses.

I didn't like the dodgy-ness of the cardboard, so I bought some balsawood and made one out of that. Used the same template, and added my own padding and an elastic band. All up it cost about $20. Looks much cleaner.

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[Tails-]

I bought a Durovis Dive the day before Cardboard was announced. It's not bad, but I've never tried a Rift so I can't compare.
Pros; 3D worked well, and no screen door effect IMO. Cons; FOV felt too small, refresh rate/latency made it feel more like controlling a game with head gestures, instead of being in a 3d environment and simply looking around. Maybe my lens were defective, but it seemed like only things near the center were in focus. The Dive is very open, and that results in you seeing things around/below the lens that distracted me. All of these things resulted in very little immersion in my mind.

That sounds pretty negative I guess, but I do like having it. It's a good way to show off the potential of VR to people in a easy, portable/wireless device. I hope that will be enough for me to want to keep using it after my DK shows up, haha. Maybe it'll become my new way of watching TV when away from home!

[Lurch666]

I have a dk1 but wanted to try cardboard but couldn't get one anywhere (apart from extortionate ebay prices) so I got a REFUGIO 3D instead.It works great but I only have a galaxy S3 so it's a little slow and the viewing area is lots smaller than the rift.With the dk1 most of your vision is filled with the image but with the refugio you only really see straight ahead BUT the resolution is much better and there's less screen door effect.It's good as a portable way of showing VR but it's pretty far from being full VR.Maybe with a bigger and better phone it could come closer to the dk1.