Google Wakes Up From Its Daydream
Amid Google's slew of hardware unveilings this week, the Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary has quietly axed the Daydream, a virtual reality (VR) accessory first launched back in 2016. Daydream was part of an initial wave of affordable VR accessories that companies hoped could introduce consumers to VR technology at very little cost, leveraging the smartphone they likely already have by strapping it to their faces and using the built-in accelerometers and gyroscopes that every modern handset has to deliver an entry-level VR experience.
Daydream was the successor to Google Cardboard, a literal piece of cardboard that Google used to sell that functioned the same way. Other products in this category included the Oculus Gear VR, which the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) subsidiary developed in collaboration with Samsung. Gear VR hasn't been discontinued quite yet, but the writing is on the wall.
R.I.P., Daydream. Image source: Google.
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