Google’s new Cardboard experiences convinced me VR is here to stay
I have a confession: unlike my fellow tech reporters, I’ve never been totally convinced virtual reality was much more than a fad. Not that I don’t want it to succeed. I’ve lusted over the Oculus Rift, marveled at Microsoft’s HoloLens from afar, and had fun with the original Cardboard, but content has seemed too scarce, inconvenient, or uninteresting outside of solo gaming. Google’s VR push at this year’s I/O has started to convince me otherwise – the new Jump and Expeditions experiences in particular. The New Cardboard Before we get to that, there’s that new Cardboard device. The hardware isn’t…
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