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

[Darcy Whyte]

I'm not sure of the order status but if worse comes to worse you can borrow
or have mine. I tend not to keep things from projects after I'm done
fiddling...



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On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Paul & Andrea Mumby <themumbys at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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