Google's plans for VR are even more ambitious than we thought

[Joystiq]

In 2014, Google introduced

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. It was literally just a cut-out piece of cardboard outfitted with Velcro strips, a pair of lenses and magnets. Insert your smartphone and voila, you got your very own VR View-Master. Though it seemed pretty silly at the time, Cardboard was Google's very

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. Fast forward two years, and there's a whole cottage industry of Cardboard-compatible viewers -- not to mention lots of

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. More than 5 million viewers have shipped and over 50 million Cardboard apps have been installed, as Google said at

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. Now, however, the company is ready for the next stage in its grand plan. Yesterday, Google announced

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, a platform that represents its most serious push yet into VR.

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