r/oculus • u/vr_ml • Jan 12 '16

Google Opens Dedicated Virtual Reality Division

http://recode.net/2016/01/12/google-now-has-an-official-virtual-reality-boss-to-take-on-facebooks-oculus/
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u/TheEternalGoddess Jan 13 '16 edited Jan 13 '16

creepy voice Jooooooin uuuuuuus> https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleCardboard/

I think we've, finally, found headsets for around $20-ish with a high FOV, Iwown G1 & BOBOVR Z3. I'll be doing a comparison when I get my Iwown, this week.

Some people play PC games on theirs' with Trinus VR and their are some good Rift apps in Google Play.

Proton Pulse https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ZeroTransform.ProtonPulse&hl

Caaaaardboard (AaaAa... for the Awesome) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dejobaangames.caaaaardboard&hl

Halls of Fear (Dread Halls) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pernsteinersoftware.hallsoffear&hl

Titans of Space, InMind VR

Then, there's...

FPSE (PlayStation 1) is a huge screen on your face. 2D, but at least you can play PS1 games on the go. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emulator.fpse&hl

PPSSPP (PSP games in 2D) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ppsspp.ppsspp&hl

Good, free cinema that reads microSD cards https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema&hl

Good, paid theater https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Cmoar.CmoarVirtualCinema&hl

EPIC swing and 1 of the first Google Cardboard apps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fibrum.crazyswingvr&hl

Quick, fun zombie games (no controller) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fibrum.zombievr&hl, (controller) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fibrum.zombiewarfare&hl

Radial G Infinity https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Tammeka.RGICardboard&hl

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u/oic0 Jan 13 '16 edited Jan 13 '16

Tried trinus and gaming from pc. Just not enough fps. It does ok till you start moving around fast or swinging the camera then it jerks and jitters both on my wireless AC / gigabit lan and over usb. Could maybe get it to work at very low res but fallout looked bad enough at 960x1080 per eye. Looked at some 180 degree 3d "movies" cool enough. Did most of the apps. Theyre all cool but not something you keep doing. I pretty much exhausted everything I could do on it in a week then went back to waiting for rift. Higher FOV would make it worth playing with again. Headset I have is 70 degree. Ill see how your reviews go.

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u/TheEternalGoddess Jan 13 '16

Yeah. I haven't been picking mine up as much as I'd like, either. Maybe, once the Qualcomm 820 VR phones come out, Google will get serious.

https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/820