The exceptionally low-cost VR googles, literally made ... as cheap clones looking to capitalize on Google’s idea. But the reality is, the Cardboard viewer specification was always intended ...

Google Cardboard is the company's affordable answer to a virtual reality (VR) experience: It's a no-frills viewer which users can insert their phones into. It fits screens up to six inches ...

Since its founding in 1998, Google has remained at the forefront of technological innovation. Though it had humble beginnings as a search engine, it has since grown massively into everything from ...

Case in point: The Google Cardboard virtual reality viewer. Google brought VR to the masses with Google Cardboard, which offer guidelines for a simple kit that can turn any smartphone into a VR ...

The exceptionally low-cost VR googles ... But despite Google’s best efforts to introduce premium Cardboard-compatible hardware with their Daydream View headset two years later, it failed ...

"We wanted the viewer to be as dumb ... because we basically wanted to open VR for everyone," David Coz, an engineer in Google's Paris office who developed Cardboard told the NY Times.