Google Cardboard

Google Cardboard is an easy to use, reasonably priced virtual reality headset created by Google in order to give many people the opportunity of viewing virtual reality.

How to Use:

Google Cardboard is pretty easy to use. Once you've constructed your headset, open the Google Cardboard App and follow the directions given by the app which will look like the icon that looks similar to the actual headset.

Scan the QR code on the viewer with you phone on the app.

Once you've scanned the QR code on the viewer, remove the viewer from the sleeve and open the top flap. After, take out the side flaps. Pull the flaps up and press against the fasteners on the sides of the viewer. Finally, put your phone inside the Cardboard viewer and look through the viewfinder to continue the set up.

Extra Help

How to Use Google Cardboard (Brief Explanation)

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FAQs

What devices are compatible with Google Cardboard?

-Google Cardboard is compatible with Androids version 4.1 or higher and iOS version 8.0 or higher.

Do I need to pay for the Google Cardboard app?

-Google Cardboard is a free app on the Play Store for Android and App Store for iOS.

I can't find the QR code for my viewer, what do I do now?

-If you have issues finding the QR code, look up your viewer model on the manufacturer's website and scan the code for that model from your screen (look up the QR code on a device separate from the device used to scan the code).

I can't see anything in the viewer when I open the app, what do I do?

-If you cannot view a screen when you open the app / my screen has gone black, first close the Google Cardboard app. Next, reopen the app. Continue this process until it works.

I tried to reopen the app but it doesn't work, now what?

-If need be, delete the app and then reinstall it. Repeat the setup instructions as well and hopefully this will fix your problem.

My phone is too big/ small for the viewer, help?

-Either use both hands to hold the phone more firmly to the viewer or if the phone had a case, remove it.

Pros and Cons of Google Cardboard

Pros:

Google Cardboard can allow many people to use VR at a lower cost.
*Instructions are given and you can always look up a tutorial on how to assemble the viewer.
Google Cardboard can be easy to operate.
You can buy the headsets from different vendors.
The app is free.

Cons:

Google Cardboard can easily be damaged because of the material it is made of.
Google Cardboard can be difficult to assemble*.
Google Cardboard has a lack of content for the viewer.
Cardboard also features low-quality resolution apps.
Simulation sickness from low-resolution apps can occur.

Classroom Activities and Standards

Science Standard

(UE.LS2A.c)-Organisms can survive only in environments in which their particular needs are met. A healthy ecosystem is one in which multiple species of different types are each able to meet their needs in a relatively stable web of life.
- Classroom Activity: Developing and using models: Modeling in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to building and revising simple models and using models to represent events and design solutions. Students would use the Google cardboard headset to view the different ecosystems around them and they would go off to recreate what they saw through a model in the form of an image.
- Surrounding ecosystems in the VR set would be described through what the student created in terms of a drawing.

Social Studies Standard

US.1.5 Analyze historical periods using timelines, political cartoons, maps, graphs, debates, and other historical sources.
- Classroom activity: Students would use the Google Cardboard headsets to view historical reenactments of battles or the lifestyles of Americans during a certain time and use what they saw as a source when analyzing their assigned historical period.
- These pictures and their surrounding environments would be analyzed and used as historical sources demonstrating life during WWII.

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