Google Daydream View

We have already talked about Google’s Daydream about few months ago. You might have waited for a long time and some of you might think ‘Already? Time flies!’ Google unveiled its new product line such as new chromecast Ultra, Google Home,which is a Smart home device and speaker, Google Wifi Routers and also Google Daydream View and pixel phone through their unveiling events in 4th October in San Francisco.

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It mostly has a neat design and it is also practical. Among these gorgeous products, we would like to examine deeply about the Daydream View, Controller and the pixel phone which is the first Daydream-ready phone.

Fabric HMD Daydream View
As we learned before, Daydream, which is Google’s VR platform, works same as Oculus home. 
You can enjoy VR through mobile. Daydream runs automatically when you put a Daydream-ready phone in the HMD made by Google. People who experienced Samsung Gear VR will easily understand. 

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The revealed Daydream View was almost the same with the image opened in the last I/O. However, it differs from the other HMD, which is mostly made with plastic. Google’s HMD has been covered with fabric.

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The color is three types: Snow, Slate and Crimson. The facepad is removable to wash whenever you like. It seemed unhygienic when most of the HMD facepad wasn’t removable, however, Google helped it.

The very first Daydream-ready phone: Pixel phone
A Daydream-ready phone is needed to run the Google Daydream View and Google has announced its first Daydream-ready phone which is called Pixel phone. Pixel phone was produced by HTC but differ from the previous Nexus line, most of the design and UI was done by Google and only a small part of design and production was proceed by HTC.

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The design is modern and it is similar to the iPhone. Also, a USB type C port has been applied. This pixel phone runs on operating system named Nougat and it has the highest spec. However, it is a bad news to hear that it has only 32GB and 128GB of storage.

The color is same as the leaked image: White, Blue and Black. The price starts at $649 to $1419 depend on the type and storage. 
There will be more Daydream-ready phones coming up soon. It seems like Daydream View has more chances compared to Gear VR, which is compatible only with Galaxy series phones. 

Standard of simple, Controller
It is not perfect even if you put your Daydream-ready phone to the Google’s HMD. In Gear VR, touching the side worked as a button but the Daydream view doesn’t work in the same way. However, more simple and easy way to choose the content has been opened by a very simple controller.

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Google has cared the users by putting each app and home button in the controller so that users can go back easily to the menu or home screen. The smart sensors provide smooth tracking and movement and an adjustable volume button lets you turn up your experience. Through this you can swing a bat, steer an airship or even cast a spell with a magic wand.

Fruitful Daydream View
There are many apps and fun experiences coming to Daydream.

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You can explore new world with Google’s basic service such as Google street view, Google photo and it also provide CNN and New York times as an app so you can enjoy the news also in virtual reality.

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In Gear VR, you had to get on the internet to watch youtube videos. However, Google made youtube as a customized application so that users can access more simply and easily. Through Hulu, Jaunt and Netflix you can enjoy your personal cinema, so watch movies on a virtual big screen and experience sports and concerts like you’re actually there.

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You can get in the game with VR as there are many games such as Wonderglade, Fantastic Beasts, and Danger Goat …etc. ready for you.

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Lastly, you can enjoy the exclusive demo of J.K. Rowling’s ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them’ only through Daydream. You can meet this demo magically at select stores in November.

The first start of Google Daydream View, which official release will be in November, was a cheap cardboard. The cardboard made people feel familiar with VR regardless of their type of phone. That Google is now facing the official release with its upgraded Daydream View that dreams to seize the VR platform ecosystem in November 
Which will be the last one to win the victory between Gear VR, which is only compatible with Samsung’s Galaxy phones and Daydream View, which makes phones possible to work with its HMD through Daydream-ready certification? 

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(2016. 9. 12) VR Roller Coaster - Best 3D SBS VR Roller Coaster for Google Cardboard

2016. 9. 12. VR Roller Coaster - Best 3D SBS VR Roller Coaster for Google Cardboard

You can experience VR contents cheaply by using Google cardboard. You can watch many VR videos or play various games in Google play for free. Today we brought a roller coaster VR video. It’s not real, it’s made with 3D. You can experience a roller coaster in a total virtual world. 

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Platform Trend Ⅲ: New VR platforms

The main part was content and platform from the VR industry policy which the government has announced. That means that we had quite an improvement in device or technology part but not in content and platform. So many companies actually started to make contents and platforms. Many experts are observing whether this VR market can grow up. But one more thing that we can watch is whether what kind of platform could seize the VR eco-system. More platforms of global companies have been newly released recently.

Google Daydream
We have introduced you about Google’s Daydream before. Daydream is a VR platform which Google is preparing and it will allow users to watch high-quality VR through Smartphone, HMD and controller.

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All Smartphones which has received Daydream ready certification are equipped with Daydream. Daydream ready is a system that provides certification to the qualified phones which is compatible with Daydream VR HMD. Google added ‘VR mode’ in their new OS called Android N and optimized other applications to VR. Through Daydream, users can use apps and contents easier because Google made Youtube, Street view, Google playstore, playmovies and Google photos into VR version. Furthermore, Google cooperate with other companies like Ubisoft or Netflix to make apps for Daydream.
Unfortunately Daydream is not available in previous smartphones that has not received Daydream ready certification.  ‘v20’ of LG electronics will mount Android 7.0N for the first time in domestic. Above this, Google will cooperate with other smartphone manufacturers which use Android OS for Daydream so you can refer this information if you were planning to buy a new smartphone.

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Samsung VR
The main platform of Gear VR is Oculus home. When you first use GearVR and put your smartphone in the HMD then you will hear a message saying “Please detach your smartphone and install the VR app”. At this time what you have to install is “Oculus app”. Like this, there was no platform which you can call it Samsung’s, but Samsung is preparing its own platform called ‘Samsung VR’ app. It is quite similar to Youtube and will become an open platform which users can upload a high-quality video freely.
 At first, however, Samsung will open contents by previously checking its violence or sexuality to provide a high-quality VR contents. You can use it in your smartphone through Google store but it is more efficient when you download the contents in Oculus home’s Samsung VR menu through GearVR.

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However, this is not the first time for Samsung to open a VR platform. In the end of 2014, when the first Gear VR was released, Samsung provide VR contents through its own VR platform called ‘milk VR’ which was expanded from Samsung’s own music streaming service ‘milk’. But it seems that it didn’t work that well. ‘Samsung VR’ which opens next month will only be available in Gear VR. Will Samsung take this strategy continuously or will they overcome this threshold.


Intel Project Alloy
The last platform that we will introduce you today is the hottest news these days. It’s Intel’s Project Alloy. Don’t you want to know what kind of platform it is which the King of computer has made?
In Intel developer Forum 2016 (IDF) which was held in Sanfrancisco on August 2016, they talked about the vision of IoT and device field and the role of Intel in expansion in Computer field. In this Forum they opened the all-in-one virtual reality solution ‘Project Alloy’.

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Project Alloy provides a free movement as the PC is embedded in VR HMD. Project Alloy can provide mixed reality. This means that you can see your hand, friends and walls even though you are wearing a VR HMD. All this things are possible because of Intel’s technology. It doesn’t need an external sensor or camera in the place because of the real sense camera attached in HMD Project Alloy platform is predicted to be opened to the developers in 2017. So we should make our mind before it is released as we know that project Alloy will bring more surprises.

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Today’s platforms were all about global company’s platform which has its own device and each of its strategy seem also different. There is a platform which is only available in its device but there is also a platform that is compatible with other devices. This make us think of IOS and Android which is walking a different way but competing all the time. So we can’t judge easily whether which way will go higher than others. We should watch together whether it will be a platform war or a symbiotic relationship.

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