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Friday, May 13, 2016

Search engines “Google” is reportedly announcing the standalone Android VR headset in a few days

Google is moving past Cardboard.

The company may reportedly be announcing the standalone Android VR headset from next week’s Google I/O occasion. Entrepreneur and former technology journalist Peter Rojas offers tweeted that Google may launch an untethered Android VR headset in a few days according to his several sources.

Rojas noted his sources had confirmed how the headset will be “less powerful compared to Vive or Rift, ” which given it's standalone mobile nature isn't any surprise. The high-powered PC graphics cards required to run the Oculus Rift or even HTC Vive setups cost a minimum of $300-ish by comparison, and therefore are quite bulky.

The price is the critical note for Google hitting here. Cardboard has did wonders because all consumers have required to do is slot their smartphone right into a $15 cardboard headset and immediately dive to the experience. With a separate product, Google will need to build something that moves after dark power of high-end mobile phones and delivers superior optics however is priced aggressively.

Samsung has gotten an earlier advantage in the mobile VR space using the Gear VR, but it's done so by promoting the headset (which takes a compatible Galaxy or Note device) of them costing only $99. Samsung had several million people on the apparatus VR platform last 30 days, undoubtedly the fruits of Samsung and choose carriers giving the headset away free of charge with S7 pre-orders.

Google has spent high of its VR efforts in the last two years enticing developers to create simple VR content. Cardboard like a gateway drug to VR offers proven quite successful with regard to Google, though there’s still quite a distance to go in garnering the actual interests of content designers. More than 5 zillion Cardboard-compatible VR headsets have shipped.

TechCrunch will be confirming from Google I/O in a few days in Mountain View to determine what’s next for Google within the virtual reality space. Along with rumors of tighter VR integration inside Android N, it’s likely that I/O might find a host of VR-related bulletins.

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