It's not often that you can get a truly breathtaking technological innovation for the cost of a few dollars in cardboard and a magnet. But that's what Google (GOOG) has recently managed to pull off ...

Virtual reality may be one of the most important new frontiers in tech. But its pioneers still need to sell the public on the idea of reality-escaping face computers. Enter Google Cardboard. Nick ...

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Google Cardboard was the big surprise of this year’s Google I/O, and Google today announced that more than 500,000 of these extremely minimalist, phone-based virtual reality viewers have shipped since ...

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Today Google dished out a second-generation version of Google Cardboard to Google I/O attendees. We took ours for a spin and tried its new support for 6-inch phones the only way we knew how: by ...

A little over a year ago, Google capped off its I/O developer conference keynote with a curious device: Cardboard, a cheap virtual reality viewer made primarily out of its namesake material, a pair of ...

Google last year debuted Google Cardboard, an inexpensive virtual reality platform that combined a cardboard mount and lens with a smartphone to create a virtual reality headset. Up until today, ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

With its flimsy cardboard viewers, no one could ever mistake Google Cardboard’s virtual reality experience for the high-octane Oculus Rift or the soon-to-be-released Sony Playstation VR headset. And ...

Google is well-known for its April Fools pranks. The first came in 2000 when the company’s search page suggested it could read users’ minds. (It couldn’t.) A few years later, Google told people it ...

How a cardboard box can turn your Android device into a virtual reality headset. — -- Google, known for creating high-tech innovations such as self-driving cars and balloon-powered Internet, ...