Really Google upgrades Cardboard Development Kit supports stereo sound effects

Some time ago, Google VR glasses box Cardboard is founder of Oculus Palmer Luckey insinuations as muddy. At that time, Luckey said social networking platform Twitter has this sentence:

"(Oculus Rift competition with Cardboard) as senior wine (Fancy wine) and slurry (muddy water). "

Still, Google seems to be not prepared to VR so hot the 2016 do nothing. Recently, Google on Cardboard Development Kit (SDK) has been upgraded, the left and right stereo field improves the performance.

In this regard, the Cardboard product manager Nathan Martz said in VR development and experience in the process of video and audio is equally important. He said that experience in the senior game developers group has an industry that "sounds make the scene more real." Thus, through smart phones developed VR immersion experience, most cost effective way is through sound.

This means that developers can take advantage of the latest space sound effects API to track the location of sound source, for a stereo immersive sound experience. It is worth mentioning that, the new SDK will allow developers to do mimic the voice of reality.

$ 25 Cardboard cannot compare with Oculus Rift helmet $ 599, but consumers in the conditions of use, the former in pole position. You know, most people use the Rift before the helmet at least upgrade their computer configuration to the Oculus Ready hardware specification:

Duo i5-4590 and above

8GB+ memory

GTX AMD or 970 290 video card or above

Windows 7 SP1 and higher

2 x USB 3.0

1 x HDMI 1.3 Flawless iPhone 6s case

So, for ordinary people, the Cardboard and the Rift high award made.

In fact, Google's seriousness on Cardboard is also more than that. Has reported that Google was to set up his own VR sector, focused on the development of VR products such as Cardboard, and the head of Google CEO Sundar Pichai confidant Clay Bavor. Reportedly, the new Department will put in more resources to develop Cardboard and related content.

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