Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “SmartVR: a small, stylish Google Cardboard alternative”.
Hey I’m addy with the verge and today we’re gon na be checking out the DODOcase smart V, our Google cardboard. So, if you’re familiar with DODOcase at all or Google cardboard, it looks kind of like this. You can do a lot of fun and cheap virtual reality. Experiences on it, but it’s pretty bulky and you’re not really gon na want to carry it around with you. So now, they’ve got something that can fix this. The smart V are opened for pre-orders fairly recently, and it’s going to be coming out in June and what it is is a Google cardboard compliant viewer that can fit into your pocket and feels a lot nicer and more solid than your normal. You know cardboard cardboard, so what you do with this is very slightly counterintuitive.
The back is actually the top. You pull it out of your pocket. You fold out these things. I mean these are actually where your phone’s gon na go.
You just pop it right in and adjust it, and then you take this thing and put it over the top, and this is gon na keep light out, actually pretty well and then right here, you’ve got your eyepieces that you’re going to look into so you’ll. Just turn on your experience and move your head around, so normally Google cardboard might have a button that you can use to select things for this. You can actually just tap right here on the screen. It’S very open, its feels a little bit counterintuitive, but you’re. Also not going to be doing much screen touching for a lot of Google cardboard experiences so because this is Google cardboard, it works on Android and iOS and it should work with just about any phone size.
Obviously, my phone here isn’t huge, but it also works fine with this note, if you don’t want to have this top on here, if you find it a little bit too high or you just don’t like it, you can actually slide it off. This is the only part of the headset that I don’t really like, because it feels just a little bit weird and clumsy, like you’re, going to break this, because what you have to do is pull this out really hard and then they’ve got this little dowel and You can slide it out, it’s a really cool idea, but I actually had to watch a video to figure out that you can do it and I’m always worried that I won’t be able back in. So the smart fear feels a whole lot more permanent and safer to carry around than a normal Google cardboard does.
It doesn’t feel like it’s gon na get stained and when you fold it up like this, it actually feels really solid. I would not feel bad about just sliding this into my pocket when it’s open. It feels just a little bit more fragile.
These things feel like they might snap off a little bit, so you probably want to try to keep it closed. It’S also just a little bit expensive compared to old cardboard. This might cost fifteen or twenty dollars, and this actually is going to cost forty. On the other hand, that also is probably gon na last. You a lot longer than something like this and it looks a lot nicer. So again, this is a Google cardboard, that’s not made of cardboard. It’S a DODOcase, smart VR! It’S a little bit more permanent and a little bit cooler. It costs $ 40 and you’re going to be able to get it in your hands and June’s thanks for watching. If you want to check out some more of our VR work, we’ve got a lot more stuff here and don’t forget to subscribe to us at youtube.com. Slash The Verge .