Google said this week one of its least expensive innovations—virtual reality headgear made of cardboard—has become a huge hit. And the tech giant said it has a new version of its cardboard gadget, ...

Clay Bavor, Vice President of Product Management at Google, wears a Google Cardboard headset at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. on June 24, 2015. Google is well-known for its April ...

The Internet giant also shows off "Expeditions" kits, letting teachers conduct virtual field trips, and its new "Jump" VR video recording system. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has seen the future, and it is littered with cardboard boxes. At its Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco on Thursday, the search giant announced several programs ...

No one would ever mistake the virtual reality experience of Google Cardboard, which uses flimsy cardboard viewers, for the high-octane Oculus Rift or the soon-to-be-released Sony Playstation VR ...

Beyond a small faction of developers and die-hard techies, most are probably unfamiliar with virtual reality. Perhaps you've heard of the Oculus Rift, but you can't really articulate what it is or how ...

Add immersive virtual reality to the long list of things smartphones can do. The sleeper hit of Google’s recent I/O developers conference was an unassuming bit of cardboard and other inexpensive bits ...

A little over a year ago, Google capped off its I/O developer conference keynote with a curious device: Cardboard, a cheap virtual reality viewer made primarily out of its namesake material, a pair of ...

Last week Google surprised the crowd at I/O 2014 with the reveal of Cardboard, a low-cost VR smartphone adapter which the company gave away to every developer in attendance. Google, who praise Oculus ...

Google Cardboard is one of the search giant's coolest projects in a long time. Sure, it's not as immediately useful as Google Maps, and you won't find yourself checking it as often as Search — but ...

When I first saw Google's Cardboard VR contraption earlier this year, I laughed. I thought to myself, "This is a joke, right?" How could this piece of cutout cardboard with a phone in it possibly work ...

With its flimsy cardboard viewers, no one could ever mistake Google Cardboard’s virtual reality experience for the high-octane Oculus Rift or the soon-to-be-released Sony Playstation VR headset. And ...