Google has just released the Cardboard Design Lab app for Android which puts users inside of a VR environment and teaches them fundamentals of VR design. The app demonstrates each of its lessons quickly in impressively effective ways. As Google further...

Ready or not, Apple, here comes virtual reality on the iPhone courtesy of Google. The search giant has now released the official Cardboard app for iOS with a few brand new demos. What's more, the Cardboard SDK is compatible...

Google today unveiled an educational initiative that leverages virtual reality and the company's low-cost Cardboard VR viewers to let teachers take their students on trips around the world as a classroom—they call it 'Expeditions'. Virtual reality and education are receiving...

At Google's I/O 2015 developer conference today, Clay Bavor took to the stage to update the world on the company's VR developments and has revealed a new and improved Cardboard VR viewer for smartphones. Google announced the Cardboard viewer and...

While it was exciting last year to see Google post some five full time job listings for virtual reality projects, eight additional full-time job listings from the company shows how fast they're growing their VR team. Earlier this month Clay Bavor, Vice President...

As part of Google's growing virtual reality developments, the company is seeking an Optical Design Engineer for Cardboard and Virtual Reality. The job listing says that the employee will "Drive the design of novel optical designs...". The full-time job listing, posted...

Today and tomorrow, Google hosts their annual I/O 2015 developer conference. We've dug through the schedule to find sessions of interest for the VR enthused. Watch the livestreamed sessions along with us right here. Above is Google's official I/O 2015...

While the initial uptick of Google's 'Cardboard' VR initiative may have exceeded their expectations, the company is now taking a very active approach to guiding the project into the future. The next step for Cardboard, which we expect to hear...

Google's annual developer conference 'I/O' appears to be touching on virtual reality with a session dedicated to VR game design at the event. Google I/O 2015, coming to the Moscone Center in San Francisco on May 28-29th, is the tech...

A high school student from Perth, Australia, has launched a Kickstarter campaign focused on a novel plastic VR smartphone adapter, that unlike many designs on the market actually snaps apart to retain its flat pack portability. https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/1591136/video-523918-h264_high.mp4 Since its initial release back in summer of 2014, Google...

Jaunt, the cinematic VR company known for its host of high-profile 360 video content, has officially entered Apple Territory with its first iOS app—Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die" 360 concert. Originally released back in November 2014 on Google Cardboard and Oculus DK1/DK2, Apple fans can...

Today Google is taking the wraps off of a new certification program for VR smartphone adapters. 'Works with Google Cardboard' will allow Cardboard VR apps to adjust specifically for a given VR smartphone adapter and help users see which adapters...

Unello Design, the indie studio behind Eden River HD, has just released two new apps for Cardboard, Zen Zone and Nebuland. Taking a few 'me time minutes' in the middle of a hectic day was never so easy. Pop on a...

Wearality wants to make mobile VR even more mobile with their VR smartphone adapter that not only delivers a seriously wide field of view (FOV) at an impressive 150 degrees, but also folds up to fit neatly in your pocket. Wearality SKY...

Google surprised the VR community when it revealed Cardboard, a super low-cost VR smartphone adapter, last year at the company's annual developer conference. Although started as a hobby-level project, the platform seems to have grown beyond their expectations. The Cardboard app...