Just one day after we highlighted Google’s apparent interest in creating virtual reality hardware, the company came out on Wednesday to refocus attention on Google Cardboard by revealing some numbers around its adoption rate
Since the debut of the VR device just over a year and a half ago, 5 million Cardboard devices have been shipped, some branded as Google products and many others as branded devices from the likes of the SyFy channel, Visa, Lowe’s, The New York Times and the Star Wars franchise, just to name a few.
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And the software side of the equation is pretty robust as well, with roughly 25 million Google Cardboard apps downloaded by users from the Google Play app store. But the interesting thing about that number is that, according to Google, about 10 million of those downloads occurred between October and December 2015, meaning that new interest in VR is beginning to spike Read more…
