![]() ![]() The cheapest I’ve been able to find is at Tinydeal: The price on this bounces around a bit, but usually it’s between $2.50 and $3.50. ![]() I can personally vouch for the quality of the Unofficial Cardboard headset at and you can buy a version that’s already put together for you, but if you’re crafty you can buy an unassembled kit and put it together yourself (it’s actually not that difficult). There’s a number of places to get a Google Cardboard headset, and Google lists a few on their web site. For starters, the Cardboard app and Chrome Experiments released by Google have plenty to engage the imagination: navigating through Google Earth, seeing 360-degree videos, an animated short, and watching and exploring the virtual tour. Smartphone-based virtual reality has been around for awhile in the form of Durovis Dive and other do-it-yourself headsets, though I’d never really paid much attention, since the headsets were still fairly expensive. But after seeing Google Cardboard and realizing how inexpensive a virtual reality headset could be, I found myself thinking about the numerous possibilities it could bring for our teachers and students. With iOS or Android apps that provide a stereoscopic (side-by-side picture) view, looking through the lenses provides an easy-to-implement but very effective virtual reality experience. For those who aren’t familiar, Google Cardboard is a cardboard cutout with two lenses, a neodymium magnet that acts as a trigger for input, and an empty space for your smartphone. As soon as it came, everyone in my office started experimenting with it and was immediately fascinated. After Google Cardboard was announced at I/O back in June, we bought one for a prize giveaway at BrainBlast. ![]()
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