It’s doing so by making some of the most interesting hardware choices I’ve seen in VR, producing a headset unlike anything on the market. The View is the first of what Google says will be several headsets made for Daydream, a VR platform that was introduced in Android 7.1 Nougat.Īs Daydream’s herald, the View has to win over two different groups of people: the consumers deciding whether they’ll use the platform, and the manufacturers who are weighing how heavily they’ll invest in it down the road. Mobile VR could do great things, but not in a way that worked for me.For the last week, I’ve been trying a new product built on much the same premise: Google’s Daydream View, a $79 pair of goggles that work with the new Pixel and Pixel XL phones. The Gear VR felt innovative but clumsy, powerful but isolating. Nearly a year ago, I wrote about a then-new product called the Samsung Gear VR - a mobile phone-powered headset that promised cheap, mainstream virtual reality, but it delivered something I wasn’t quite sure what to do with.
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