Google Cardboard
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Google Cardboard has no in-app products on record in the United States.
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| Rating / 5 | 2.7 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 2.4 |
| Reviews | 1.8K | 33K | 7.2K | 3.2K | 2.5K | 1.4K | 736 | 589 | 577 | 469 | 115 |
| Released | 2015 | 2015 | 2016 | 2018 | 2017 | 2015 | 2015 | 2023 | 2015 | 2017 | 2016 |
| Monthly price | — | $8.49 | $1.99 | $2.49 | $6.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3-month price | — | $14.99 | — | $34.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Annual price | — | $59.99 | — | $59.99 | $24.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| One-time price | — | $4.99 | $1.99 | $2.99 | $24.99 | $1.99 | — | — | — | — | — |
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Google Cardboard reviews
2.7 out of 5, based on 1,822 reviews.
What people like
- Works well even without the official cardboard headset
- Very cheap compared to expensive VR headsets
- Fun to try out virtual reality for free
What they complain about
- App says no internet when you have Wi-Fi
- Only has a few demos and gets boring fast
- You cannot move around or play any games
- Magnet button sometimes does not work at all
Good
This app is good but there is one more thing every time I go on explore it keeps saying there’s no Wi-Fi problem even though I have Wi-Fi can you fix this? I think the app is updated. I don’t know if it’s outdated. Can you see if you could fix it from. Thank you Respect respectfully Noah Joseph
Doesn’t do anything
Won’t download anything. Server connection fails. Is this a “gone app”?
i might have the wrong thing
so i have the MEL Science one, is it the right one? also the explore button just tells me no wifi even when i have 100% full wifi, i need that fixed
Please update!
I think the app would be great! If I could use it… every time I try to use the explore button it says “can’t connect to servers”
Not compatible with other VRs
I got a VR thing where you put your phone in or whatever. My VR literally says “works with all VR apps” but no. The VR website doesn’t work and the Google cardboard doesn’t either, even after I paired it. I give this 3 stars because it probably works with a real Google cardboard VR. I hope the developers can find a way to fix this. Thank you for your time.
The best
I love how you can move
Not working
My dum ahhh can't figure out how to get the right internet connection
Great but lacks support
It does everything it says it does very well. However, it doesn’t have very many games for it that work, or even exist in general. This wouldn’t be so bad if YouTube still had PhoneVR support on iOS, but for some reason it’s only on android. Outside of that, it’s a perfect product.
My review
I get this app two out of five stars because it doesn’t have anything else to do. I think the app should have something that you can play on like it should have a game inside the app instead of having nothing.
Why don,t use other vr😑😑😑
I don,t have a google cardboard vr so I used a plastic vr and I scanned the QR code and it said couldn’t conect.
It’s a great sim for a vr
So fun how it simulates an actual vr headset it is awesome
Just sucks
It’s is pretty cool in the first part, but when you get done with the tutorial, something goes wrong. For me it keeps saying check your connection but like my internet is perfectly fine That’s the end of my review .WARNING:DO NOT GET THIS APP
Could use more!
Good, but could definitely use some more as the app is already laid down. You could probably go through it all in 30 min.
Bring back old iOS app !
Google Cardboard is fantastic technology and makes simple VR amazing for everyone. However, the older app worked much better than the latest version. I’d give older app five stars, but sadly this version falls short of full satisfaction. Google please fix it!
Doesn’t work
It says something like cannot connect to server check your internet connection when I try to play a demo like what?
Games
I like the pictures that you can click but would be cool if it had games
Don’t waste time
The remote that came with vr set is so cheap buttons don’t do what they should and the app is so bad that I never got to play any game complete waste of money
It’s ok
It’s kinda ya know board
NEEDS MORE OPTIONS
NEEDS MORE OPTIONS!!!!! 😁😁
Scanning
I think you should be able to scan an area and save it so you can look around it whenever
Very Cool
I don't have a got a cardboard so I used a cardboard box that is shaped like a vr head set and it works just fine
BIGOTS! Don’t use my hardship!
Dirty selfish spies!
Needs more demos
The app is great and all I have the master VR and it’s pretty great. I love the demos, but it just needs more demos.
I tried it
Good, but not that good. You don’t get to walk
Mid
The app is good but it is limited.
So cool app!
This app is so cool! literally like the button works on the top of the VR headset. It’s so cool!
It’s not that cool because it didn’t work
It wouldn’t connect to my phone at all.
Wow
This is fun with, and without vr, but it has its flaws. One of its flaws is that it only has 2 things to do, tutorial, and explorer mode. But besides that great game would recommend.
Terrible
I don’t know if this is just a glitch but I only have 1 option of things I can do and it’s literally just like 5 pictures you can look around and but you can’t move or do anything but look it’s actually really bad
Review
It is really cool but adding more photos would keep people on it more often
I 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 have a google cardboard
I 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 have a google cardboard but i have destekvr and it works so good!
Doesn’t do anything.
It just states that there’s no network and does nothing.
questions
how do you play one of the games because im seeing that it has a VR game and VR video.
Bruh
Runs like cardboard
Quite boring
Really boring a few pictures but only like 7settings can’t move around and can’t interact with anything
Psuarez
Psuarez
it’s boring
it was fun at first but then it says that my headset is not even connected to the internet, you can’t move around even though that’s the point and it just gets boring. 😒😒😒👎👎👎
Xr
For the sake of God please push the XR version
Boring
I agree that you should of kept all the other modes now it is quite boring.
We Need More Scenes
I’m writing this review because for me, the only thing you can do on this VR app is just use demos, so I can only see scenes I’ve seen a hundred times before when using my headset, which makes the feelings less realistic, I hope they add more scenes in the future as I’m now starting to get bored of the constant scenes such as the museum and so on.
Outstanding value! 😎
Everyone should try Google Cardboard! A true to original *cardboard* viewer with lenses, an elastic head strap, and interaction magnet costs less than a Starbucks®️ Frappuccino. The Cardboard experience will leave a *much* bigger impression than the Frappuccino. There’s always a better headset at a higher price point, but that $0 → $6 jump provides by far the biggest value!
Why just demos
I just got this app a few days ago but for some reason there’s nothing but demos there’s just places and you can even move like come on who makes a game but without movement and there just images like a museum,aircraft museum,nasa,this and that it just a never ending loop of images there’s no fun in the app just a digital museum.
A wonderful app
Amazing what modern technology can do
I think what the app should have
A feature so that they can use it on YouTube
How
Me and my friend got this and she got to connect it to her phone so she can she her photos and apps but idk how to do but I want to do if anyone knows how to do it please let me know
Environments
Please add change your environment
Won’t work with iOS 26
Pressing the viewer button to get Started does nothing so you can’t use the app at all.
Decent
Good but can be blurry. Expected
My problems with Google Cardboard
I think that VR is cool and all BUT how am I meant to click anything when I need to take off the headset٫ take my phone out the slot it goes in and manually click it but when I did I (force of habit I think some of you can agree) turned my phone verticaly so when I did that ANOTHER MENU CAME UP ASKING ME TO GO TO THE DEMO but when I clicked "try demo" It sent me to something actually quite nice but still ALMOST everything worked its just that STUPID BUTTON CLICKING. And thank you for your time (if you could actually be botherd to read it all).
Just a viewer
It’s just a viewer At least it’s something
Google Cardboard FAQ
- Is Google Cardboard free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 155 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does Google Cardboard have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to Google Cardboard?
- VUZ: Live 360 VR Videos (4.7 from 32,596 reviews, premium from $0.39), VR Tube - 360° Video Player (4.0 from 7,153 reviews, premium from $1.99) and VR Movies 3D - Virtual Reality (4.2 from 3,183 reviews, premium from $0.99).
Google Cardboard download
Last updated 9 months ago.
Google Cardboard sells in 155 countries. It was released 11 years and 4 months ago, on 29 May 2015. It holds a 2.7 rating from 1,822 reviews.
Supports 31 languages: English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
How much does Google Cardboard make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.