Samsung too, which once poised its Gear VR headset as a defining feature of its flagship phones, hasn’t made any significant updates to their headset in a few years, despite continuing to maintain support as newer phones have been introduced. The trend isn’t unfamiliar, and seems to indicate that interest in smartphone-based VR is waning in favor of standalone VR headsets. Google Appears to Be Ramping Up R&D Efforts for "New and novel" AR/VR Lenses That said, Google confirmed that both the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are both Daydream ready phones, which means they’ll work just fine with the 20 Daydream View headsets. While VR wasn’t featured as prominently here as the 2016 Pixel event, it was still cleary a focus for the company.īut today at the introduction of the Pixel 3, Google’s smartphone-based VR ecosystem saw no updates to the Daydream View headset or mention of improvements to the platform. When Google introduced the first ‘Pixel’ phone back in 2016, it also revealed its first real VR headset called Daydream View, putting VR in the spotlight and marking Pixel as the first ‘Daydream ready’ phone among more to come.Īt the 2017 introduction of the Pixel 2, Google revealed a brand new version of the Daydream View headset complete with improved lenses and design, including a heatsink which increased the performance of phones while used in the headset. ![]() And while the introduction of the devices didn’t see much fanfare related to VR, Google has confirmed to Road to VR that both phones are compatible with its Daydream View headsets. Google today revealed its latest phones, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL.
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