I can’t wait to see the applications that evolve…. What a terrific, engaging, technology that will only get better and better. I love Google Cardboard and VR using my smartphone! Oh, here is our friend Pat exclaiming WOW, OMG!! He was amazed. Many of the apps are free, so I will grab more as time goes by. This allows you to spin all the way around….safely!Īlthough the initial set-up and practice is great, I downloaded a few more apps to play with.Īll of them are interesting and have the WOW! factor of Virtual Reality, but, so far my favorite is the Tuscany Dive: A small house on a hilltop property that you can walk around and in, go up the stairs, look out the windows, etc. Yes, our viewer has obtained the certification released by Google and this. Don’t walk! In fact, grab your office chair or another swivel chair and use it as your VR vehicle. Rigid, resistant and sustainable cardboard. The first hour I started using it, I become so immersed that I walked right into the fireplace. Ready to start!įirst of all….heed this warning as you will get dizzy: QR Codes store up to 4,296 alphanumeric characters of arbitrary text. They are also known as hardlinks or physical world hyperlinks. Once I did that correctly (there is a button on the viewer that needs to control the phone, so the phone has to be in the right way) this is what I saw. QR codes are a popular type of two-dimensional barcode. Then it showed me how to place my phone in the viewer. The instant the phone saw the QR code….I was paired. Since I had not yet paired a pair of glasses to my phone, I got the following.Īfter opening and unfolding the cardboard glasses, I was asked to find the QR code to complete the pairing. I downloaded the Google Cardboard app and opened it. Setting up the phone, I followed the directions showing up on my phone: Too big! I had to take off the phone’s case and it fit….barely….but it fit. Then I tried to put my Galaxy Note 4 in the cardboard holder. What I found out is that this stuff is AMAZING! Wow! (But, it did cause me to get dizzy….see below for a full description of use)Īfter opening the box, I followed the directions on the box to unfold the cardboard correctly. Since I had very little expectations, $30 was not too much to lose. Not having a ton of money, I did a search for the Google Cardboard and bought two for about $30. Until now, I followed the progress of Virtual Reality with great interest, but, had not yet played with VR of any kind, soooooo, I decided to give it a test drive! QR Code Reader can show the content from the current webpage for you. Dont Worry, this extension comes to the rescue. If there is a QR code on the webpage you are browsing, How do you know the content of that QR Code. Google Cardboard has been around for a year or two. A chrome extension for reading QR code from webpage.
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