Cardboard VR viewer now available for purchase in Google's store
Need a cheap -- really cheap -- virtual reality headset? Google's got you covered with its $15 Cardboard, which you can now buy directly from the company's web store.
Until now, Cardboard was only available bundled with other products or through third party resellers.
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Cardboard is a simple, cardboard-based (duh) VR headset that works with nearly all newer smartphones and apps that support Google's Cardboard platform.
Google offers several options to buyers: Buy one Cardboard for $15 or get two for $25.
In the new, VR section of Google's web store you can also find Mattel's View-Master goggles and the Goggle Tech C1 Glass VR Viewer -- both essentially the same thing as Cardboard, but a little more comfortable.
For some inexplicable reason, given it's only a piece of cardboard with some plastic lenses, Cardboard is not available in all countries, but folks in the U.S. can pick it up now.
Google's decision to start offering Cardboard directly to consumers is yet another indicator that we're heading into the portable VR era. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, Samsung promised a free Gear VR with each Galaxy S7/S7 Edge pre-order; Alcatel's new Idol 4 flagship will come in a box that doubles as a VR viewer, and LG has shown us a prototype of its own virtual reality headset.
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