We tried out the Orbulus app just to see if our experience with Cardboard was consistent and again, the vertigo, nausea, and headache all reared their ugly heads. There are other VR apps on the Google Play store, which you can access from the Cardboard app. Thus our testing was severely curtailed and limited to a few minutes at a time. So, while we really wanted to go through a range of apps with Cardboard, it became quickly apparent that a powerful headache was imminent. Moreover, we didn’t really expect so much vertigo and nausea. That said, the whole effect of placing your smartphone screen two inches from your eyes and then focusing on it through cheap plastic lenses can be a little trying. The Earth demo is cool and a little fun but slower hardware will limit its enjoyment.
It’s not a totally immersive experience in that, you know you’re using a $20 piece of cardboard with cheap plastic lenses to minimally interact with simple animations and flyovers, but it’s pretty neat nonetheless. Perhaps the most interesting demo was the Earth one, which let us virtually fly over cities and famous locations. Windy Day is a simple animated sequence that you can look around and interact with using the Cardboard app. The demos you get in the Cardboard app are pretty basic, aside from the Tutorial there’s a Tour Guide where you can briefly tour the Palace of Versailles, an Exhibit demo, which allows you to view African face masks, and so on.
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