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  • > sends ... in ... JPEG frames

    uh-oh

    by lostmsu
  • I mean...it isn't that bad. The actual limitation is the resolution of your smartphone screen
    by thatxliner
  • I had a quick glance at source. Base64 and TCP? There's certainly room for a quicker protocol and delta streaming with adaptive bitrate. I reckon Fable could get that implemented quite fast.

    Unity dependency seems required for cardboard vr? Is that library worth the bloat?

    by razodactyl
  • AKA cheap eye destruction tool
    by ls-a
  • useful on planes imo
    by thatxliner
  • I don't understand: why would anyone strap their phone to their face? What problem does this solve?
    by hungryhobbit
  • it's useful on planes (that was my personal use case). also, privacy
    by thatxliner
  • As the readme says,

    > No expensive headset. No cloud streaming. Just a phone, a cardboard viewer, and an arguably unreasonable amount of curiosity.

    Even a cheap dedicated VR headset is hundreds of dollars. Cardboard is cheap.

    by yjftsjthsd-h
  • A video demo of this would be nice.
    by dakial1
  • When they said cardboard VR, I thought they meant...

    https://imgur.com/gallery/what-people-really-really-really-r...

    by JoeDaDude