The (Day)dream is over: Phone-based VR is well and truly dead

[Joystiq]

When

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at I/O 2014, a lot of people thought it was a joke. A cardboard-based contraption that turned your phone into a primitive VR headset seemed more like a kid's science project than a serious endeavor. But Google's

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was just the first in a long line of phone-powered VR.

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combined serious Oculus optics and tracking with its own Galaxy handsets, and Google later came up with its own "real" VR hardware with the

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