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2014 - 2021
Google Cardboard (original viewer)
“Cardboard used a folded viewer and a smartphone to offer an inexpensive introduction to VR.”
- Birth year
- 2014
- Shutdown year
- 2021
- Lifespan
- 7 years
- Peak era
- Company
- Category
- Devices
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What Was It?
Cardboard used a folded viewer and a smartphone to offer an inexpensive introduction to VR. Its physical simplicity made the idea easy to demonstrate and share.
This entry marks Google's original viewer-sales era; the broader Cardboard concept and software have a life beyond the decision to stop selling that particular hardware.
The Story
- 2014 The product era documented here begins in 2014. Cardboard used a folded viewer and a smartphone to offer an inexpensive introduction to VR.
- 2021 Google stopped selling its original Cardboard viewers in 2021; third-party viewers and open-source work are outside this hardware-sales boundary.
How It Died
Google stopped selling its original Cardboard viewers in 2021; third-party viewers and open-source work are outside this hardware-sales boundary.
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