Google Cardboard – The £3 Oculus Rift
We’ve all heard about the Oculus Rift; the headset that promises to truly deliver a full Virtual Reality experience, dropping the player into a computer-generated world and letting them experience the world first-hand.
The tech has garnered a lot of coverage in the industry over the last few years, including a great deal of discussion regarding the shipping of the pre-ordered hardware.
With big promise comes a big price tag: while the retail version is, as yet, unpriced, the development kit will set you back around $350. The technology behind the system means that cost is always going to be fairly high.
The thing is, though, experiencing bleeding-edge technology doesn’t always have to be eye-bleedingly expensive. Nothing illustrates this better right now than the Google Cardboard project from the eponymous Google.
