Rumor: Google comes with Gear VR competitor and VR support in Android

According to a new rumor, Google is working on a successor for its Cardboard VR glasses that are more similar to Samsung’s more expensive Gear VR glasses. Android should also have built-in support for virtual reality, according to the American business newspaper Financial Times.

Where Cardboard is cardboard VR glasses that rely on the phone for the screen and sensors and where users have to hold the glasses themselves against the head, the successor should look more like the Samsung Gear VR and include a higher resolution and a higher resolution. should support lower latency, claims the Financial Times. For example, Samsung supplies the Gear VR with a headband, which allows users to use the device for longer.

For vr, Google now has a Cardboard app and compatible apps in the Play Store. How the built-in support for vr should work is still unknown. It is obvious that there will be an interface for Android that fully works with the control of the new VR glasses, so that it will be possible to control Android in VR.

Google released its first Cardboard in 2014. Many models are now available, with prices starting from a few euros. The Financial Times says it is likely that the VR functions in Android will come out at Google’s developer conference I/O, while the new VR glasses will come out in the fall, just like Nexus smartphones.

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