Virtual reality is becoming more and more important with the different bets of the moment, among which the one created by Oculus with Rift, and the Vive option from HTC stand out. There are also a few other companies that are looking for a way to get on this virtual reality train that will plunge users into another form of entertainment in which they can totally evade reality by putting on one of those glasses. Samsung is another of the companies that are betting heavily on this form of entertainment with its Gear VR, and it is Google itself that has a kind of attempt with its Cardboard. Different options to go to the same destination in which virtual sensory experiences will delve into virtual worlds where you can experience all kinds of adventures and sensations.
Related to Google Cardboard, this could be the beginning of the Google's first steps through that world that will open before our feet with virtual reality. From a report from The Financial Times, it is indicated that Google is planning to launch a product aimed at virtual reality very similar to Samsung's own with its Gear VR. A kind of device that you connect to your phone to be able to have a virtual reality experience wherever you are with a series of motion sensors that would be found in that new Google product. The differences with Google Cardboard would be palpable, and if everything is as filtered, this incursion of Google could be seen for this year with the Google I / O developer conference as the indicated space for its presentation.
A new horizon: virtual reality
There is no doubt about the importance of virtual reality at the moment with a number of companies that are betting very strongly on it. Samsung, Facebook, Sony, Razer and other large companies such as HTC and Valve are looking for ways to expand their markets in the very near future. It is Google itself that is approaching that future with a virtual reality technology at the same time that they have created their own division dedicated to the research, development and production of VR hardware.
Google has already named Clay Bavor as the leader for the division and started hiring members for the team like Jason Toff from Vine. The new jobs listed from Google are the ones that have put on notice about the real intentions from Google for what would be new virtual reality hardware more advanced than Google Cardboard.
There is still no confirmation from Google about it development of this new virtual reality technologyAlthough another rumor suggests that Google would be determined to launch a device of this type this year and that it would find itself in a face-to-face with Samsung's Gear VR. This also leads us to another report that states that Google is working on adding extra support for this type of hardware in the Android operating system itself, although without knowing how it will do it.
One more step towards virtual reality
Google Cardboard is not available from Google itself, but there are several third-party manufacturers who sell their own attempts at this scheme to offer an experience close to the virtual reality at a very low cost for the user.
While Cardboard has been a very decent offer to be created with a very fragile material, Google's new device would be made of a harder materialIt would have improved sensors and a higher quality lens for an experience that was on par with those we have been seeing in recent months. Google I / O 2016 could be where we first see this new virtual reality technology for Android.
This technology would use the potential of a smartphone to offer such an experience and that it would need the support of the Android operating system itself. We do not know anything specific and official from Google, so we will wait for more news to be able to comment on the future that can await us through a new virtual reality experience that we will launch from one of our devices.
from google glass to cardboard glasses…. Alright come on