Wearables News Google to Launch Standalone 'Android VR' Headset at I/O Next Week

Bits of gossip have been overflowing that Google has been chipping away at a standalone VR headset that does not require an Android cell phone to power it, similar to the Rigging VR or Google Cardboard do. The organization was expected to showcase the VR headset at Google I/O, which commences one week from now, aside from demonstrating improvements in Android that make the stage more virtual reality amicable. Presently, another report is guaranteeing access to new insights about the standalone VR headset from Google.

In a progression of tweets, tech journalism pioneer Dwindle Rojas made a few cases about Google's supposed standalone VR headset. The headset might be called Android VR, and will "certainly" be dispatched at "one week from now" (probably at Google I/O). He included that the headset will be less capable than the HTC Vive or Oculus Crack, yet superior to the Samsung Gear VR that is made as a team with Facebook-claimed Oculus VR. It would keep running off equipment like a cell phone. Evaluating is still obscure, and will obviously be pivotal in offering the item.

To note, is that these gossipy tidbits are indicating a standalone (totally autonomous of cell phone or PC), or possibly untethered (remotely associated with cell phone or PC) headset, however Google is additionally said to deal with the up and coming era of Google Cardboard, which separated from better sensors, lenses, and packaging, will likewise go about as the reference outline for VR headsets from different producers. We will obviously know more at the Google I/O designer meeting one week from now.

Then a month ago Samsung, Google's greatest Android cell phone OEM, declared it was building up a standalone headset, one that won't require a cell phone or desktop to work, and be completely remote.

Google is unquestionably concentrating on VR, and we can hope to see upgrades to Android to encourage this vision reported at I/O one week from now. The organization as of late additionally made another division committed to virtual reality.