Google,
being as they “Do No Evil” thinks they can do better than a Cardboard Headset
or licensing their tech to remake the US$30 Mattel View-master as reported in
the article “Mattel's
View-Master gets a Google VR makeover”, published February 13, 2015 6:05 AM
PST by Ben Fox Rubin, CNET News and “Mattel
And Google Relaunch View-Master As A Virtual Reality Headset”, published
2/13/2015 @ 9:42AM, by David M. Ewalt, Forbes.
Google
apparently has assembled a skunk-works of sorts in a bid to refashion Google
Android into a Open Source OS for making VR and AR Headgear as reported by the Wall Street Journal in their article “Google’s
Android to Take On Facebook in Virtual Reality”, published March 6, 2015
6:34 p.m. ET By ROLFE WINKLER, The Wall Street
Journal.
Some
of the initial announcements in other blogs merely echoed the Wall Street
Journal as noted in the article “WSJ: Google has a
small team working on Android for VR”, published March 6th 2015 at 7:06
pm by Richard Lawler, Engadget and “Google
is reportedly working on a virtual-reality version of Android is coming after
Oculus Rift, the Wall Street Journal reports”, published March 6, 2015
06:51 pm by Casey Newton, The Verge.
Even
stranger, the reason begin proffered of Facebook being their competition seems
strange; didn't Facebook buy Oculus Rift back in March 2014 for US$2 billion as
noted in my blog
article entitled “Facebook
buys Oculus Rift for US$2 billion - Facebook Social Virtual Reality Future as
Smartwatches and smartglasses herald the death of the smartphone in 2015”.
So
why did it take Google so long to respond if Facebook's purchase of Oculus Rift
was such a threat? Because they’re not the only ones coming on the horizon in a
field of Gaming that’s expanding as rapidly as Wearables; other are coming, if
you were to just put your head to the ground and hear their armies massing!
Google to develope
Google Android for VR - Why a VR and AR War is looming on the Horizon in 2016
The
Oculus Mobile VR Jam 2015, a VR/AR Competition now in its second year with an
increased purse that’s sure to attract a lot of VR and AR Developers, even some
in Jamaica.
Also
HTC now stepping into the VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) ring
in partnership with Valve with their HTC Vive VR Headgear at MWC (Mobile World
Conference) 2015 in Barcelona Spain as reported in my blog article entitled “@Oculus
Mobile VR Jam 2015 - How @samsung Gear VR is Gearing up for Competition in the
VR and AR Space”.
Finally,
let's not forget the Microsoft Hololens, about which I’m yet to write, the Sony
Morpheus VR Headgear and the Samsung Gear VR, which uses technology licensed
from Facebook owned Oculus Rift as noted in the article “Google
is developing a virtual reality version of Android, report says”, published
Mar 7, 2015 10:33 AM by Zach Miners, PcWorld.
So
VR and AR, alongside Wearable Tech, is set to be hot. Google merely wants in on
the action by creating Open source software as well as the App Store, making a
potentially lucrative market unified from the start as opined in the article “Google
is building a virtual reality version of Android”, published MAR. 6, 2015,
7:58 PM by MATT WEINBERGER, Business
Insider.
So
will this herald the start of a VR and AR War as predicted in the article “Google Working on VR
for Android”, published MARCH 7,
2015 BY DAMON POETER, PC Magazine? 23016 is
only a year away and most of these products are slated for launch come
2016....and probably in time for MWC 2016!
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