Google is working on a special version of Android, designed for virtual reality glasses – one quite sensational information gave a few hours ago Wall Street Journal , relying on information obtained from two people associated with the project. It has to be a response to last year’s purchase of Oculus VR Facebook, and Android for virtual reality – when he sees the light of day – will be distributed in a manner similar to the standard variety smartfonowo-tablet system.
When about a year ago Facebook for more or less two billion US dollars (which for Mark Zuckerberg is not a high amount, at the end of WhatsApp Messenger cost him up to 19 billion) buying Oculus VR, Google answers seemed only a matter of time. And indeed, in the summer of last year, laboratories in Mountain View Google Cardboard left. As the name suggests, ( cardboard is a free translation board ) was a cardboard casing on your smartphone, equipped with two lenses, a neodymium magnet and a ceramic, two Velcro and elastic rubber band through the smartphone does not fall out of this quite interesting box.
Although the box Google glasses Cardboard aroused great interest of users, however, search engine giant apparently came to the conclusion that a piece of cardboard cut properly can be an inadequate response to investment dwumiliardową Facebook. And when the conference The Next Chapter Microsoft unveiled his glasses HoloLens Google – if you believe the information the Wall Street Journal – cemented in this belief. Instead, however, begin developing their own, this time more modern virtual reality glasses, the company decided to do what he does best, which is to prepare the operating system that manufacturers will be able to put on their devices.
And it seems to be – at least from the perspective of Google – the best solution. It is easy to imagine a situation in the market of mobile devices, if instead of buying a small Californian company called – I wonder if guess – Android Inc., Google decided to yourself to produce smartphones with its own nieudostępnianym other businesses operating system. Although it can not be ruled out that such a device would achieve market success, but certainly it would not be so large that befallen for Android.
If you confirm the information that the Android virtual reality is also to be available for free to all interested manufacturers of equipment, it is very likely that he will repeat the success of its elder brother smartfonowego and in a few years the vast majority of these devices will operate under its control. You can only have doubts about the overall reasonableness of increased work on the VR hardware operating system. But here again, it is worth to recall the smartfonowego Android. In 2005, when Google bought the company already mentioned, for smartphones – in the modern sense of the word – nobody dreamed of, and for the release of the first iPhone was to take almost another two years. Meanwhile, Google had already planned (though to be precise, they were not yet fully concretized plans) to enter the market of mobile devices. Given that the then technology contained in itself far less so. amejzingu , and clean utility equipment consisted of a lo t more than you WOW Factor , the more risky it was a decision .. Today strong entry into the market of virtual reality seems completely natural step for every prominent companies from the new amejzingowych technology.
Just a look at what happened during the event just ended Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Oculus spectacle we had to stand in line for about two hours, the same time had to wait for the opportunity to learn about virtual reality solutions prepared by Nvidia. Yet the manufacturers of such devices is much more, led by Microsoft and its HoloLens. Without much risk can therefore be concluded that in the near future, virtual (and extended) the reality is that, as of 2007, are smartphones.
Thus, if the latest reports prove to be true, and Google confirms work on Android virtual reality, the first Prime Minister of glasses with this system may result in the same, which brought the first smartphone with this system. Simply put, if Google actually prepare a version of Android for these devices, it is more than likely that after a few years, the vast majority of virtual reality glasses will work just under the control of the system.
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