YouTube now supports Cardboard glasses for 360-degree videos
That Google commitment to Virtual Reality is something that there can be no doubt. And it is that, although it does not have a project as colorful as the Oculus Rift glasses from Facebook, it does have some cheap and curious cardboard glasses that allow a similar experience with any Android mobile and very few euros. They are called Cardboard and have been improved as shown at the Google I/O Developer event last May A device that now works seamlessly with the YouTube app to enjoy immersive 360-degree videos.
This is possible thanks to the latest update of the application YouTube This is version 10.21 , and as a novelty even the support for these glasses Cardboard In other words, being able to use them to see the 360 degree videos as if the user were inside them, putting on these glasses and looking in the direction they want to frame the image , or always looking around to contemplate all the action that happens around them. All this without depending on the exclusive application Cardboard, facilitating the reproduction of these videos directly on these cardboard glasses.
This novelty consists of a new button that appears on the video playback screen of YouTube Thus, to the right of the timeline of each video with an angle of 360 degree view, an icon well recognizable by the owners of a now appears Cardboard Just click on it to launch the video in stereoscopic mode or adapted to be seen in Virtual Reality mode, adapting the perspective and using the movement sensors of the device to be able to look in different directions to enjoy all the content.
With this it is not necessary to jump between applications, or send the video from YouTube to some tool like the application Cardboard to play it stereoscopically. A simple press allows you to change the playback mode, insert the terminal into the cardboard glasses and start enjoying it thanks to the button or trigger included in these glassesAnd, with it, it is possible to control playback so that the experience is comfortable and the user can adjust their glasses at any time without problems.
In this way Google offers a low-cost system to enjoy videos in 360 degrees where the user and viewer not only enjoy an immersive experience, but are the directors themselves when choosing which portion of their environment to see, being able to customize the playback experience at will. All this without the need for expensive glasses and available to any user of the platform Android and iOS , since the new Cardboard will also be available for the terminal of Apple
In short, an update that fans of Virtual Reality with fewer resources will like and that only requires pressing the new icon to enjoy the view immersive The new version of YouTube has already been released through Google Play completelyfree and will arrive in the next few days to Spain
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