Cardboard

- March 14, 2016

Everyone

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( 99,990)

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Description

Cardboard puts virtual reality on your smartphone. The Cardboard app helps you launch your favorite VR experiences, discover new apps, and set up a viewer.

Try out a set of included demos as well

• Earth: Fly where your fancy takes you on Google Earth.
• Tour Guide: Visit Versailles with a local guide.
• My Videos: Watch your videos on a massive screen.
• Exhibit: Examine cultural artifacts from every angle.
• Photo Sphere: Look around the photo spheres you've captured.
• Arctic Journey: Fly alongside Arctic terns, create your own flower garden, relax under the northern lights and more.

To fully enjoy this app you'll need a Cardboard viewer. Learn more and get your own Cardboard viewer at http://g.co/cardboard. Share your experience through our Google+ community at http://g.co/cardboarddevs.

By using this app you agree to be bound by our Google Terms of Service (Google ToS, http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS), Googles 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 and the terms regarding software in our Services apply to your use of this app.

Do not use this app while driving, walking, or otherwise by being distracted or disoriented from real world situations that prevent you from obeying traffic or safety laws.

Reviews

4.2

99,990 total

5 64,223

4 16,246

3 7,269

2 3,511

1 8,741

M. Deane

Best option out there for all VR needs I would really like to give this a 5 star rating, but it needs one more feature. It needs to be easily controlled with a Bluetooth remote or gamepad. Not all viewers have the magnet functionality, and sometimes even that isn't very reliable. Having the ability to navigate menus, calibrate, etc with a controller would increase the functionality drastically. Then you could easily transition to watching movies, playing games, etc.

Kalpesh Variya

Not working with Lenovo Vibe K4 Note When I installed first time on my Lenovo Vibe K4 Note it's fine but after some time app not working and crash so I uninstall and reinstall than it is not open/working only main black screen appear and asking Let's get you set up Are you using a cardboard V1 viewer? And no any touch effect and than crash. Please solve

Daniel Gurney

Interesting Just experimenting so early days. It does hold a lot of promise and after I/O 2016 I've got a lot to look forwards to. A few things could be improved. There's not a lot of literature on how to best use it. You need to fully rotate the headset to go "Back" and not all Bluetooth accessories are of any use at all. As a debut/toe dip it is great fun.

Sachin Adhav

Not working properly Demo of Arctic journey works but screen automatically rotating and spinning by slowly even we don't want to spin our head. Same problem watching 360dg videos from youtube also. Why it is rotating spinning automatically? Need to FIX This. also playing SBS 3D videos from youtube also working good and perfect 3D effect.(means my VR HEADSET Setting is correct)...but when playing SBS 3D Videos from mobile or SD card, it's not giving 3D effect. Two square screens video playing. Give some controls from erphn rmote

Sa sa sunny Saha

I love it but I'm running on kitkat now and having a problem in YouTube when i press the cardboard option the video get destroyed ... And when i press back it's okay but not in cardboard anymore .. So i can't try YouTube in vr :( and when i install lollipop 5.1.1 cardboard app is not supported .. Wow so i have to download those videos and play it from a app called 360vr but i seriously want to use cardboard so please please try to fix this.. Thanks.

Matthew Cummings

Interesting experience for cheap The Google cardboard doesn't fit well, the demos are choppy and basic but the fun factor per dollar can't be beat! They can be easily modified to fit better and I added flexible straps to free up my hands. The app works well with few glitches. I have a Samsung s6 edge plus.

User reviews

M. Deane April 18, 2016

Kalpesh Variya August 3, 2016

Daniel Gurney June 11, 2016

Sachin Adhav July 22, 2016

Sa sa sunny Saha April 11, 2016

Matthew Cummings May 28, 2016

Stephanie C.M. March 31, 2016

Doesn't work on Google Street view? So not sure if it's this apps fault or Google streetview app. But the streetview works fine in 360 if I don't have the cardboard on but once n I put it on the app takes me to the Google cardboard Web page for some sort of set up. But ts set up and works fine on youtube and any other app. Haven't been able to find a fix. I wanted the cardboard precisely for streetview but it's the only app it doesn't work on.

Nigel D. April 28, 2016

Nexus 6P with View Master None of the apps or videos seem to work at all, the screen just spins. I've Googled how to troubleshoot the issue but no one seems to have an answer. Google needs to add some sort of calibration method that you can manually run or rerun a setup wizard.

Vincent Jones August 15, 2016

Very well done! I had originally tried this app on my tablet with no knowledge of the cardboard viewer and the fact that my tablet did not have the necessary hardware to sense motion. I can see that some very long and hard work had gone in to the development of this app, and i can tell that some big things are still yet to come!

Abhishek Verma March 20, 2016

Device - Redmi 2 Miui 7 The cardboard app worked fine for the first time then after closing and reopening the app it shows black background and the arctic , tour etc demos don't work the app Force Closes. It works fine after clearing the data and using it first time. Then also after reopening the same problem occurs.

Haven Ferrer June 7, 2016

This is......... Uhhhh AMAZING!!! OK so first I bought a cardboard thingy from the Seattle space needle gift shop that was exclusively for space needle 360°, but I searched vr games, and I found this!!! I have downloaded alot of games that support this, and they are amazing too, but I mostly like the Google vr maps in the demos. I soon went to a Verizon store with my parents and got a FREE viewer!!!! thanks for your amazing tech and PLEASE KEEP MAKING VR APPS!!!! UPDATE: the new arctic journey is BEAUTIFUL, it almost made me cry.

Ginny Howard August 26, 2016

My phone get so HOT with in 5 mins.. I'm sad.. I was so looking forward to this.. I've Googled how to keep your phone cooler and nothing works.. I've disabled every app I possibly could the covers off the front of my goggles I don't know what else to do for it but it's just entirely too hot I'm afraid I'm going to damage my phone

Paul Pritchett April 12, 2016

One of the most innovative products I have seen in a very long time. The two cardboard units I have tried have actually been of better optical quality than the Mattel unit so higher price isn't always better. I wish the schools in our area were using these to allow kids to tour museums they could never have before. The product potential here is incredible. Very well done Google. The only draw back I have experienced is the amount of data it uses (to be expected) and it does make my phone pretty hot.

Omkar Kamble September 18, 2016

Needed attention I am having some problems with this app. In my phone the icons rotate and so does the screen. It should be static. Playing video does not have pause/ play, stop and other feature like video player has (like vlc). The app also supports less video codec. Please make all necessary changes as soon as possible as they are needed. Thankyou

Levi Vande Guchte March 17, 2016

Great idea, but... It would be great if the Samsung gear vr was compatible with cardboard. I just picked it up thinking I would be able to use all of the many apps/games on Google play, just to find out that it isn't supported. If the gear vr was supported, I would rate it 5 star. Please fix.

Robin Brady March 27, 2016

Won't work with my Motorola Nexus 6 Was so excited when my cardboard arrived. Excitement quickly turned to total frustration. My phone crashes every time I try to use this app. You would think that with a Google app for a Google phone there would be no problem. Seriously, what the fudge??? Planned on using this in my project based classroom to help increase background knowledge and engagement So disappointed!

Stephen Walker May 26, 2016

Only works with select headsets. It pretends to support other headsets, but it requires a magnet button or something to work. Reviewers say you can use a bluetooth controller, but all of the buttons will do one thing: disable cardboard mode. Why the hell would they make a controller button do THAT? My best guess is they want to force us to buy their own headsets. It's really shady, and the 3D sucks anyway. Just get a Vive, if you can afford it.

Mark Haury June 12, 2016

Needs calibration within app Nearly useless because there is no setting within the app to allow for different screen sizes. Viewer parameters are utterly meaningless without including screen size, which needs to be a variable that can be adjusted by the user within the app. Stereoscopic separation is *way* off without it. Idiotic omission.

Hazmi Patria July 4, 2016

Almost enjoyable The only thing missing is the orientation setting. My phone was unable to sense the magnet which located on the left side of the VR, so i have to rotate it 180° to make it able to sense it. But by doing that some features like the "back" motion becomes disabled.

C Trudell May 17, 2016

Not working properly Im using an lg g3 but for some reason, it keeps spinning everytime i use a cardboard app and wont stay still please fix it, if u fix it ill give it a 4 or 5

Mai C Thao July 3, 2016

qr scan does not work I have been trying this for the last 30 minutes with intervals (of course) and the camera focus is extremely inaccurate which results in lag. basically the qr scanner cannot read my code. when the camera is blurry it is slow at taking photos. when the camera is clear it takes constant photos but qr cannot read any of them. yes my code was lined up as perfect and accurate as could be. look forward to a respons so I can fix this. thank you.

Олексій Бєлобородов April 17, 2016

About swapped eyes! I had swapped eyes problem, and fixed it by reducing lens—lens distance to 42 in configurator. Phisicaly it should be 63 and configurator preview looks good with this value, but all apps looks like right eye and left eye are swapped. When set lower — preview looks bad, but all apps looks right.

Miss Silhouette March 21, 2016

Great! The only thing is... My dad bought a Google Cardboard over about two months ago and he hasn't gotten it doesn't think he is going to. We are very disappointed. I would like to find out why he still has not gotten it, because we have been waiting for a while. Thank you!

Aman Sakhrani April 28, 2016

Personal problems interfere Would be cool to auto rotate, the top half of my screen doesn't work so I can't access everything. On it's own a perfect app, would be pretty cool to steer the bird tho haha

May 18, 2016

Lenovo k4 note Worst app for lenovo k4 note. It's not working very well. I'm waste my time & money. Plz fix this. And give me solutions as soon as fast.g oogle team where are you please give me answers.

Tyler Ferreira April 9, 2016

Good but. If I can make it so I can launch right into "Cardboard Demos" and have the ability to add my installed apps into that "Cardboard Demos" section.. that would be so amazing. Basically be able to make the app into a VR "Station". I can load all my VR apps, etc right from that "Cardboard Demos" UI. The UI is so cool thats all the app should be anyways. No need to have to LAUNCH the "Cardboard Demos". That should be the main UI.. Basically make it into a home screen for VR.

Michael T April 27, 2016

Needs more settings I like that you can scan in a headset but I'd like to see more options in the settings, like drift adjustment or settings to adjust the image to reduce or increase the arc so it's "flat".. Not sure what you call that. Gamma controls might be handy too.

Sharon Lam August 10, 2016

Simple and fun Google cardboard viewer just costs$20. Street view is cool. 360 videos on YouTube are very cool. Being able to take your own 360 photos is not something I thought could be so simple. Only thing that costs anything is the viewer.

Ashton Rowe March 19, 2016

Lag issue Whenever I turn my head to look somewhere else, it responds for a few seconds, then glitches back to the starting point. Great app, though please fix! Sony Xperia z3v, Android 5.1.1

Angus Graham May 27, 2016

Not compatible with gamepad! My fiit VR doesn't come with a magnet switch. It does come with a remote which works as a gamepad which would be fine if cardboard would treat a button press from the gamepad as a screen press BUT IT DOESN'T. You can look around in the demo selector but there is no way to select one of the demos. Weak.

Lowell Skelton May 17, 2016

Too much left drift Doesn't just drift left, it RUNS to the left. Very disorienting. No calibration function available. Google search shows hundreds of complaints over the past two years. Why don't you fix it?

Alberto Macin Jr March 15, 2016

Amazing except.... The map function is not as perfect as the preview would imply. Very low graphic quality. It could just be my phone but I'd hate to think that's the problem. Nexus 6

Danish Shaikh June 27, 2016

Beautiful but must add auto click Developers plz add auto click Option in Settings for VR those who don't have click button e.g.-Loop VR. O have loop VR to select any video I had to take out my phone from VR put it in it again.

Aryan Chavhan July 21, 2016

Not working properly on my redmi 2 When I installed it for first it run well but next time it issued problem such as the gyroscope calibration is not well that's make screen shaky,the demo automatically closes after touch. Please make it clear and supporting to redmi 2

Didi Tommy May 11, 2016

Compatibility Not compatible with baofeng mojing 4 remote control. When I using cardboard demo, if I want to open ex my video with that pointer, when I press ok/enter button using that remote, it will open my library because the cursor still stuck at my library.

Ayush Kulshreshtha May 3, 2016

Why the screen keeps rotating Its most irritating to constantly rotate our neck and chair bcoz of rotation screen from side by side. Whats the most interesting thing is the developer hasn't provides the option to stop rotation. . . . .pls at least give us the preference

girish kulkarni March 20, 2016

Cardboard app error I am using HTC one m8 with cynogenmod 13 flashed. Whenever I open cardboard app a white circle appears on the screen and after that I am unable to use the phone the only alternative left for me is to restart the phone using the power and the volume button. The white circle starts on my screen whenever I open a virtual reality content. I tried this on my friends phone who also has cynogen mod flashed, it works perfectly on his device. Also when the circle appears it starts tapping on my screen rapidly.

Sigge Fabiansson July 10, 2016

Oneplus 3 problem The oneplus 3 automatically register screen pushes every five seconds even with the phone lying flat on the table. Renders the entire app rather useless...

Phillip Alpert September 5, 2016

Really cool, but blinding The app is great, but I can't use it at night because the screen automatically gets incredibly bright. I understand why and all, but it really needs an option to turn that off because it's too bright for use at night. Not all phones will have that issue, but my Nexus 6 gets painfully bright.

Vaibhav Zingade March 15, 2016

Liked it.. I have Lenovo K4 note and ANTVR.. & I'm enjoying this app.. One thing which is taking me away from giving 5 stars to this app is that, when I open this app and select VR mode the briteness of device is getting to its highest level automatically, even though I have set the briteness to it's lowest in device settings.

What's New

Get a taste of whats possible in VR with the brand new Arctic Journey demo: fly alongside Arctic terns, plant a field of flowers, relax under a sky full of stars and more.

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Updated

March 14, 2016

Size

50M

Installs

10,000,000 - 50,000,000

Current Version

1.8

Requires Android

4.1 and up

Content Rating

Everyone

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