[Lab] Google Cardboard, aka the "Oculus Thrift"

[Paul & Andrea Mumby]

A couple things, first, can I still get in on a pair of these lenses?
Second I've been designing a 3D Printable version of the apparatus, which
is a bit more flexible for multiple phone models, and supports focus/IPD
adjustment. It's not done yet...

Anyway just throwing that out there.


On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Kirk Sutherland <kirk.sutherland at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So last night in anticipation of building our own cardboard(TM) I
> installed the app from google on my S4. I have none of the parts needed so
> I wasn't expecting anything that great. The first challenge came from
> needing to 'click' in order to proceed to the menu. This is done by moving
> the included magnet switch up and down, with no magnet I reached for the
> closest thing to me I knew had a magnet in it - my cordless phone (in the
> speaker). Just moving the cordless up and down close to the side of the
> phone worked like a charm and I was able to navigate the menu. My first
> impression was that the motion detection was very sensitive, I wasn't
> expecting it to be so responsive. Then I loaded up the street view option
> from the menu and squished my face against the screen until the two images
> merged into one. Even with an extremely blurry image the 3D effect was
> quite apparent and moving my head around allowed me to 'look around' the
> world. I don't think I have stopped smiling since. I can't wait to try this
> with those lenses!
> On Jul 4, 2014 2:08 PM, "Jason Arnold" <arnold.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Crossing our eyes? Come on... we want to look COOL while we're doing this
>> :P
>>
>>
>> 2014-07-04 14:03 GMT-04:00 Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>>    Just crossing your eyes works too (as though you were doing one of
>>> those magic-eye things) but I find it's hard to stay focused when there's a
>>> lot of action - your eyes want to go back to parallel when you scan around.
>>>    The music visualizer looks rad with crossed eyes, the stereoscope toy
>>> work great until the slide changes, and then my eyes crank hard and I get
>>> an instant migraine. :)
>>>
>>>    Your mileage may vary. You may be able to fudge it with two toilet
>>> paper rolls and some good eye muscles.
>>>
>>>    -Jason Cobill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Jason Arnold <arnold.jason at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Teh internetz is blowing up this week about the swag from Google's I/O
>>>> 2014: https://developers.google.com/cardboard/
>>>>
>>>> Darcy put it out there that he'd like to build one, so would I. The
>>>> hard part apparently is finding the right spec of lenses: biconvex, 25mm
>>>> diameter, 40mm focal length. I've found some for $7 USD per pair (+
>>>> shipping) if we buy 5 pairs. Are there 3 others out there who wanna join
>>>> Darcy and I in our cardboard VR future?
>>>>
>>>> *Jason*
>>>>
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