#google cardboard

Among the new things that Google has introduced during its I/O Tech Talk earlier is the Cardboard - a do-it-yourself Virtual Reality viewer made of everyday items that can be found in your home or local hardware store. To put it simply, the Google Cardboard is a DIY kit that uses your Android smartphone to turn it into a Virtual Reality device. It is also cheap as the materials can be found in your garage or can be bought at your local hardware store - cardboard, lenses, magnets, velcro, and rubber band. To use the Cardboard, just run the Cardboard app on your Android smartphone, secure it inside the viewer and you're good to go. Watch TechCrunch's video below to see it in action: Mind you that Cardboard viewer isn't for sale and is made to encourage developers to create VR applications using Google's open software VR Toolkit. There was some sort of mass panic last night when Google was spewing a warning "this site may harm your computer" on all their search results. People search on Google were shocked and confused as if the search engine itself was hacked. Connie took a screenshot from her browser of what turned out to be human error from some engineers over at Google: The incident happened sometime between 6:30 a.m. Read more in our articles including "Google Cardboard, turns your Android smartphone into a VR device" and "The day Google broke the Web".