>> If you're using it for playing video games, it's a toy.
>>
>
> I agree with you. Albeit an expensive toy.

Well if the alternative is to buy a space-ship, plane or car in real 
life (plus all the maintenance costs), then it probably works out quite 
a cheap alternative :-)

> I tried Google Cardboard on my ancient Galaxy S2. A disaster in Elite as
> I cleared my save by mistake. But in a couple of the demos it was
> effective. Not as a 3D viewer because everything was too far away for
> stereoscopic vision. But for placing you in the centre of a 360 degree
> viewpoint it was good.

I see now on YouTube there are 360 degree videos that you can look 
around (use the mouse on a computer, or just move your phone around):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClAuhgFQpLo

I don't know whether this works with any VR headset at the moment, but 
can imagine that's the plan.

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