Category: Google Cardboard Apps

  • Merge VR, the Cube, and Mixed Reality: A Review of the Apps

    After working with the Cube by Merge VR last year during an internship I finally got to try out a few of its published apps. I and some colleagues played with the Cube, using only our smartphones, and then tried the same experiences in VR with a Google Cardboard. The number of…

  • Google Expeditions, Project Tango, and WebVR, Oh My!

    Recently I had the opportunity to share Google Expeditions with 12 high-schoolers in a summer tech camp. This is not the first time I’ve led a group through using Google Expeditions so I knew that there would probably be some technical glitches.  True to form, there were troubles for students…

  • Unimersiv: VR Education App Hits and Misses

    Unimersiv is one of the first VR-dedicated learning platforms that was released on Samsung’s Gear VR and the Oculus Rift. For some reason, I kept putting off my review of it for some time but now that its on Cardboard and Daydream I figured I’d better get on it. Overall,…

  • Good News for Educators: Apple’s App Store has Google Expeditions and Cardboard Camera

    In some long awaited news, Google has finally released Google Expeditions and the Cardboard Camera app on iTunes. Finally, what seems like a vast majority of public schools and their teachers can now access the wonders of virtual field trips. Yes, there are already apps like Nearpod that are out on…

  • Google Expeditions for all!

    Google Expeditions is now open to the public so any teacher can try their hand at leading a field trip in virtual reality.

  • An Updated Review on the New York Times VR App

    Its been a month since I last checked the New York Times VR app and they have some new content! Now before you get excited, its only four new videos and TWO of them are sponsored by commercial corporations. So it seems the percentage of commercially sponsored content is going…

  • An In-depth Review of the New York Times Virtual Reality App

    [An update to this post is here – 4/5/16] Its been about five months since New York Times subscribers were blessed with the gift of a free Google Cardboard viewer with their Sunday edition. Since then, they’ve had a decent amount of content, some good, some not-so-good, but all worth…

  • Ride a virtual fish through Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights”

    I wouldn’t call myself an art aficionado or someone who really loves art. However, Burrell Durrant Hifle‘s VR app titled “Bosch VR” just might change my mind. His visually stunning app takes you on a trip through a medieval-times artistic fantasyland accompanied by a haunting score by composer Timo Baker.