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VR is trending up? Google sold a whopping 5 million Cardboard

By Chris P.

Updated: Jan 28, 2016, 7:40 AM

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Announced at the end of June 2014, Google Cardboard is a Do-It-Yourself kit for virtual reality made out of, you guessed it, cardboard. In concert with your smartphone—any Android smartphone—and the eponymous Google Cardboard app, users the world over can experience virtual reality for a mere $20. A pretty sweet deal considering that dedicated VR viewers are times more expensive.

Google Cardboard sounds like one of those kind of random, fun projects the engineers at the company routinely come up with. Earlier today, however, Google announced on its official blog that it has sold a whopping 5 million units since the thing first became available. That's a lot, especially considering how obscure virtual reality tech still is today. At least when looking at the bigger picture. But among techies? It seems like the immersive technology already has the vital foundation of early adopters needed to give it a fighting chance of becoming relevant.

In related news, Google announced that the Cardboard app has been downloaded over 25 million times, 1,000 VR-specific apps are already available, and users have watched over 350,000 hours of VR footage on YouTube. 500,000 students have gone on a virtual reality expedition to faraway, or even fantastic, lands. And you can, too.

What a time to be alive, eh?

Google Cardboard hits 5 million sales milestone

source: Google

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Chris Panayotov is a former mobile tech reviewer of phones, tablets and wearables at PhoneArena. However, his contribution to PhoneArena content includes not just reviews, but all kinds of regular and experimental features, such as news stories, buying guides, and an exclusive column on the most notable phones out of Asia.