Virtual reality is taking giant steps this year with a series of products ranging from the new Cardboard viewers or Samsung's Gear VR, to more enriching options such as HTC's own Vive and Oculus Rift. Cheaper and more expensive options to be able to experience a virtual reality that opens up other worlds and other experiences.
And it is that apart from being able to travel through Cardboard to even be able to watch videos in virtual reality, soon you will be able to explore the web from a viewer like Google's. The Mountain Viewers are working on the Chrome VR version for Android, as outlined in the Chrome Beta and Chrome Dev builds for Android.
Chrome Beta includes a WebVR setting that allows the user to explore websites to use in VR, while Chrome Dev also has a VR shell that would allow you to explore the web with both a Cardboard and a DayDream terminal, even those that were not ready for virtual reality. The way it works right now, you would have to remove the Cardboard if the website you are browsing is not VR ready.
The VR Shell in Chrome Dev is not quite ready for use, which is not surprising since the Chrome Dev app is used to test features in an alpha state. The fact that the VR shell is in Chrome Dev shows that Google is working hard so that this feature is available when the first DayDream terminals arrive at the end of the year from manufacturers such as Huawei. Google is also working on adding Chrome support for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
Support for web browsing in VR means that apart from what one is used to when thinking about virtual reality, it would add an interesting point of interest for feature list by DayDream.
