While it's no Oculus Rift headset, Google's Cardboard initiative has a huge role to play in VR by putting it in the hands of anyone with $25 and a smartphone.

Business Technology Virtual reality for cheapskates, no headsets required Originally published March 18, 2016 at 12:00 pm Updated March 18, 2016 at 7:07 pm ...

Now more than 5 million Cardboard headsets have been shipped, with 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Cardboard app installs recorded by the Google Play Store.

Google Cardboard might be just about the worst way to experience virtual reality, but its accessible smartphone-led approach makes it the best VR headset for those on a budget. You won't find ...

Now you can experience VR for as little as $300 with an all-in-one headset like the Meta Quest 2. If $300 is still out of your budget and you have an old iPhone in a drawer, you can actually step ...

Not to mention VR as a whole has struggled to find a strong mainstream following since its biggest push in the 2010s, with Cardboard's successor — Google Daydream — only lasting from 2016 to 2019.

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The apparent name of the Google Cardboard competitor is the "Microsoft VR kit." There's no word about whether the Microsoft VR kit will be on sale for the general public.

Google Cardboard was my first problem: Most VR headsets are designed to be strapped to your face—Cardboard just expects you to hold it there. With your arms. That wasn’t going to work.

The outcome was Cardboard, which Google describes as "a no-frills enclosure that transforms a phone into a basic VR headset, and the accompanying open software toolkit that makes writing VR ...

The Google Cardboard is the best low-cost virtual reality headset you’ll get on the market. It is cheap, easily accessible, as well as simple to set up and use.