Google's Daydream View Is a VR Eye Pillow

(happy piano music)

Google's first VR headset was just

a piece of cardboard.

This is better.

This is called the Daydream View

and it's first of probably many viewers

for virtual reality that are going to

support this new breed of Android phones

that's coming out.

So it's really two pieces.

The first is the controller,

which is this little pebble of a thing

that has a a clicky trackpad and two buttons.

But it's mostly a motion controller

so you can use it to slash or swipe or point at stuff.

This is really how you do everything in Daydream.

The headset is much simpler, really.

It's just a headset.

It has some technology so that

when you put your phone in it uses

NFC to automatically pair and will

instantly launch you into the Daydream home

where you can do the VR thing.

It also works to automatically align it,

but the biggest thing it is, is just, comfortable.

It's really light and sort of plushy and smushy

and the whole goal was to make it

feel like clothing, not like a gadget.

So when you put it on,

I mean, you still look ridiculous but

it feels better and it feels more natural somehow.

Google's whole plan is to make VR

feel accessible and that's by making it

easy to wear and inexpensive, this things only $80,

and about making it feel comfortable and nice,

not like a gadget.

The Daydream View goes a long way towards that.