How to Assemble Google Cardboard VR Viewer How Does Google Cardboard Work? 1. Download Mobile VR Apps 2. Slide in your smartphone 3. Enjoy virtual reality • Suggested Apps to download: 1. Google Cardboard – This teaches you the basics of the basics of virtual reality, it lets you fly around in Google Earth, take a Street View tour, examine a series of tribal masks, watch YouTube videos on a giant screen, enjoy a short animation of a mouse on a windy day and watch 360-degree video. But the best feature is the ability to view photospheres captured with your smartphone's camera. By stitching together a series of photos taken in every direction, you can create a panorama that you can enjoy in your headset. 2. Titans of Space - takes you on a scaled down tour around space, complete with 3D models and to-scale distances between planets and moons. 3. War of Words VR – takes you back to the battlefields of the Somme in 1916 while being treated to Siegfried Sassoon’s controversial poem ‘The Kiss’ – at one point you can even follow a bullet in slow motion as it strikes. 4. Sisters - Creepy. Strange. Addictive. Turn the lights off, plug your headphones into your phone and prepare to be utterly freaked out. 5. Roller Coaster, Fibrum - roller coaster VR – this particular one adds beautiful jungle and underwater scenery. This is also most voted to make your stomach jump. 6. Jack White: THIRD-D – footage from all angles, you can look anywhere you want, the audience, band members, Jack White or even the sky. 7. VRSE – 3D VR film that takes the viewer on a journey of one new beginning to another. You start off at a beautiful lake where you watch a swarm of dragon flies…. 8. Orbulus – Brings the work of the Photo Sphere community to life, putting you dead center of some incredible landscapes and venues. You start off in outer space and select on orb by holding your gaze on it. You’re then placed where the photographer was, with their location in 3D around you. 9. Volvo – test drive the Volvo XC90. For example, Friday Getaway kicks off on a track and within minutes you’re zooming through mountains and fields. 10. Glitcher VR – one of few VR apps that use your smartphone camera to layer things on the world around you. It lets you superimpose nine different filters on the camera input, including selective color, edge detection and Predator vision. But the most impressive feature is voice control. Use the magnet switch and speak commands to flip between filters, record video, take photographs and even activate the flashlight. 11. Watch Youtube Videos – Using the Youtube App on your smartphone, search #360video to experience everything from athletic events to scuba diving. You can also just search anything you want (try “Saturday Night Live”), then go to filter the search and select “360.” You’ll see a little icon on the video that looks like Google Cardboard – just click that! .