Google is working on Android for virtual reality Bashny.Net

Sources Wall Street Journal сообщают, that the search giant has made its share of the growing trend of virtual reality. In Google does not plan to produce a hardware solution, following the example of its many competitors in the market, but instead are working on a special version of its operating system Android. Like the "big sister», Android virtual reality will be open and free for manufacturers.

The fact that the device for virtual reality - it is quite the emerging trend of the mobile industry, virtually no doubt necessary. Oculus VR company was able to collect $ 2.4 million on Kickstarter and was bought last spring, Facebook for $ 2 billion. In the last Mobile World Congress Taiwanese HTC in collaboration with Valve показала their virtual reality glasses called Vive. Similar in purpose we send, known as Project Morpheus, at Game Developer Conference 2015 показала Sony. In the winter this year, Microsoft showed its version of VR-glasses - Hololens , in which the picture of the real world superimposed digital objects .

One of the engineers responsible for the new Android, is Clay Bevor . He had previously been involved in the project Google Cardboard - some semblance of a virtual reality glasses, working with the help of a smartphone, a special application for it, a pair of lenses and cardboard box for them. C after the first announcement in 2014 Cardboard partners search giant could sell over half a million sets, the cheapest of which costs $ 18.95.





A little earlier in the Google announced that the glasses Google Glass, which partly used the idea of ​​virtual reality, again go to the stage of the research project. They must be reissued with the new hardware stuffing and new software. It was probably due to the presence in its product portfolio, similar in concept to the VR-glasses in Google decided to limit what is already bringing success to the company's smartphones and tablets.

Most recently, the search giant lost a valuable employee. To work in the unit Oculus passed Marie Lou Jepsen, formerly one of the leading positions in the laboratory of secret projects Google X. Jepsen known as the chief engineer of the project sverhdeshёvyh notebook OLPC < / a>.

At Google, there are Project Tango - a project to develop software that is designed to create a virtual environment for the user from the images the camera smartphone.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/246914/