Cardboard

Google LLC

About this app

Cardboard puts virtual reality on your smartphone. The Cardboard app helps you to launch your favourite VR experiences, discover new apps and set up a viewer. The app is now built on the Cardboard open-source software (OSS) SDK.
To fully enjoy this app, you'll need a Cardboard viewer. Learn more and get your own Cardboard viewer at http://g.co/cardboard. To learn more about the Cardboard open-source project, visit our GitHub repository at https://github.com/googlevr/cardboard.
By using this app, you agree to be bound by our Google Terms of Service (Google TOS, http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS), Google's general Privacy Policy (http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/) and the additional terms below. This app is a Service as defined in the Google TOS. The terms regarding software in our services apply to your use of this app.
Do not use this app while driving, walking or in any way that distracts you from real-world situations and prevents you from obeying traffic or safety regulations.

Ratings and reviews

this was an amazing app! but since I updated my phone to a Samsung S25, this app is no longer supported on this new phone. So while you can still view the old pictures you took, you can no longer record new ones. Very disappointing, as this is the only one I know of that also records sound with your 360 pictures. Please put out an update to fix this!!

I'm still waiting for my "Eureka moment"... and waiting and waiting. If you're having trouble falling asleep or you like fidgeting this is for you, but you're still just as far away from viewing VR as you were before downloading it, it's a viewer tool, NOT a viewer inself. The one thing the ad IS is that it is misleading. It does work bare bones though.

Add an option to bind buttons. Instead of tapping the screen, it would be nice to press the volume button, or a button on a headset. I'd also expect a setting to adjust the size of the screens. Small VR sets don't work as well on large phones, and phones with 2:1 screen ratios. Also, you shouldn't be allowed to charge more than $10 for any of the google carboard sets.

What’s new

Key updates:
• We've completely rebuilt the Cardboard demo app with the new Cardboard open-source software (OSS) SDK to improve performance and stability. You can learn more about the project on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/googlevr/cardboard.