Android Daydream

Android Daydream

Existing Phones Unlikely to Qualify as ‘Daydream Ready’, Says Google, VR Fans Should Wait to Upgrade

Google's ambitious Daydream VR platform for Android hinges on a combination of hardware and software to enable a high quality VR experience. To ensure the desired level of performance, Google will certify phones of a certain minimum specification as...

Google’s Nathan Martz on Developing with the Daydream SDK

Nathan Martz is a product manager for Google's Daydream SDK, and I had a chance to catch up with him to talk about what developers need to know in order to get started in developing for Daydream, which will be...

Google Wants Established YouTubers to Make VR Video With Jump 360 Rig

Google is delivering a dedicated VR YouTube app in their newly announced Daydream platform. Along with it, the company is making sure to give users a few reasons to jump head first into the app when it launches by encouraging...

Google’s (Day)dream: ‘Hundreds of Millions of Users in a Couple of Years’

At I/O 2016 this week, Google laid out its ambitious goals for Daydream, the company's new platform for native, high performance virtual reality experiences on Android. Daydream is Google's newly announced Android VR ecosystem—encompassing specialized phones, headsets, and apps—which promises to...

Candy Crush Creator on Casual VR Gaming with Google’s Daydream

Candy Crush creator Tommy Palm has moved into making casual virtual reality games with Resolution Games. They've already released Bait! on the Gear VR, and it's the first VR app to feature in-app purchases, and they just announced at...

Start Making Google Daydream VR Apps Today with a DIY Dev Kit

This week Google announced Daydream, the company's initiative for high-end mobile virtual reality. While Google didn't reveal a dedicated dev kit, the company says developers can cobble together their own using the Nexus 6P smartphone, Cardboard, and a spare phone. Google says...

Google is Working with IMAX on Cinema Grade VR Cameras

Google Jump, a 360 camera system and processing software platform announced at last year's Google I/O, is adding IMAX and Yi Technology to its roster of camera manufacturers. Clay Bavor, Google's VR team lead, took the stage during the I/O 2016...

Unity Native Support for Google Daydream VR Coming in Summer, Plugin Out Now

Google have announced that developers itching to get started on building Android VR games using the Unity game engine can do so right now using a Daydream plugin. Unity is the most popular game engine for mobile game development, so...
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Epic Announce Android Daydream VR Support in Unreal Engine, Available Today

Epic Games' Kim Libreri today took to the stage at Google's I/O conference to announce Unreal Engine support for the newly announced Daydream Android VR platform, what's more is that it's available right now. Epic Games have been a constant...

Google Presents Plans for Daydream & Android VR – Livestream @9AM PST

Google announced it's new initiative to make Android the choice for mobile virtual reality development with Daydream, their dedicated VR platform and ecosystem. Today, the Daydream theme continues as Google's Clay Bavor share the company's plans for Android virtual...

Google to Livestream Two Daydream VR Sessions Starting @10:00 AM PST

Google's newly announced Daydream VR platform, an initiative that's poised to bring low latency VR to a number of select Android smartphones later this fall, wasn't exactly what the Internet was expecting when it heard about Google wanting to make...

Google-Approved VR Headsets With Motion Controller Coming This Fall

Announced today at Google I/O 2016, VR team lead Clay Bavor revealed on stage that the company will be partnering with manufacturers to build Google-approved VR headsets based on an internally generated reference design. To boot, Google is also providing their new...

Netease Games Announce ‘Twilight Pioneers’ for Android VR Daydream

Netease Games have announced that they're to bring a new action role playing title to Google's newly announced Android VR ecosystem Daydream. Google only just announced it's new Android VR platform Daydream and already the announcements from developers working on...

CCP Announce ‘Gunjack Next’ for Google’s New Daydream Android VR Platform

CCP have announced it's to bring a new mobile VR title based in the EVE universe - Gunjack Next - to the newly announced Google Daydream Android VR platform. At Google I/O today, Google announced it's assault on the virtual reality...
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First Look: Google Demos Android ‘Daydream’ Platform for High Performance VR

Google's newly announced 'Daydream' promises to raise the bar for virtual reality on Android compared to Cardboard. At I/O 2016, the company showed the first glimpse of Daydream in action. In the video (above) we get the first glimpse of...
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