Cardboard

Mobile VR setup and demos

Cardboard turns a compatible Android phone into a simple virtual reality viewer. It is aimed at people trying mobile VR for the first time, as well as developers who need a reference app for Google’s Cardboard platform. The app helps prepare a phone for use with a supported viewer and provides an entry point for exploring VR experiences.

What Cardboard includes

• Viewer pairing: Scan a viewer’s QR code to apply the optical settings intended for that headset.
• VR experience discovery: Browse examples and applications designed to work with Cardboard-style viewing.
• Session launching: Move from the standard phone interface into supported stereoscopic experiences from one central starting point.
• Developer reference: Built around the open-source Cardboard SDK, making it useful for testing and learning how mobile VR apps are structured.

Who it suits

This is a practical choice for users who already have a compatible mobile viewer and want a straightforward way to configure it. It also suits students, hobbyists and Android developers examining the basics of phone-based VR. Experience quality still depends on the viewer, phone sensors and the individual VR applications used with it, so results may vary between devices.

Store record

Cardboard is published by Google LLC in the Libraries & Demo category. It has a store rating of 3.38/5 from 162,864 reviews and has been listed with 10,000,000+ installs. Those figures suggest broad reach, while the rating reflects a mixed range of user experiences across different phones, viewers and expectations.