Anyone using google Cardboard at School?

[fiza]

Are any of your teaching departments using Google Cardboard with the students?

If so which devices are you using with cardboard?

Has the whole experience worked well?

Any gotchas?

[fiza]

*bump* anyone?

[NotSoFast]

Not in departments, but we've created a 360 degree video we're going to take to the primaries with some cardboards.

[Duranis]

I have looked at it but would need to buy a bunch of devices to run it on and they would have limited use for anything else. If I could get the teachers on board with using VR videos as part of their lessons then it might be worth it but as it is they would probably just gather dust.

 

Realistically your probably looking at around at least £100 per device for something running a minimum of 4.2 with a semi decent gyro, processor and at least a 720p display. It would be much better to get something with a 1080 display as 720p on cardboard can be a bit blurry, that will add quite a bit to the price. More likely you will want something around the £150 mark + £30ish for a semi decent headset, the actual cardboard ones wont last 10 minutes in a classroom.

 

Recommending exact devices is fairly difficult as there are just a ton of them out there. I have seen the Moto G and OnePlusX recommended as cheap phones that hit the minimum requires but ideally I would recommend testing them out first. Some of the cheaper Android devices have really terrible gyros which means the view will be constantly drifting or moving in odd directions. Also worth taking note of how often the manufacture releases Android updates and how likely it is for the devices to get any in the future. A lot of the cheaper devices are unlikely to get updated to the latest OS version for more than a year (if your lucky) so you might soon find they are obsolete. This is less of a problem on Android as you will still be able to find older app's for them but still something to think about.

 

Then you need to consider if you have a few of them how you are going to manage and lock them down. I used Meraki in the past and it is pretty easy to set up and use.

Edited June 7, 2016 by Duranis