This week Google has announced that their Cardboard VR app for both Android and iOS is available in 100 countries and in 39 languages. Google Unity 3D apps can be adapted for virtual reality as well. Those who are interested to know more will be able to peruse through the Cardboard developer documents which happen to be available in 10 languages so that even more developers worldwide will be able to do their bit to construct a world for virtual reality (VR) purposes.
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Also, the Cardboard SDKs for both Android and Unity have been updated to cater to user concerns over drift correction and Unity performance. “This update includes a major overhaul of the sensor fusion algorithms that integrate the signals from the gyroscope and accelerometer”.
The SDK has been updated to make the experience better on devices with “lower-quality sensors”, support Metal rendering on iOS, fully Unity-native distortion pass, and now allows developers to add Google Street View imagery to Cardboard apps.
Google Cardboard is best known for being dead simple, a VR experience that requires only cardboard and a smartphone to become a DIY VR headset. Google offers designs for download, and third parties like Mattel also are offering their own viewers.
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If you have a Google Cardboard compatible headset lying around, Street View is about to get a lot more fun.
