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# Here comes Google’s cardboard, DIY alternative to Oculus Rift
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/googles-cardboard-diy-alternative-oculus-rift/
- Published: 2014-06-26T17:09:47.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:53:01.000Z
- Description: Apparently, you don’t need a hefty black face-mask with rubber straps to access the constructs of virtual reality. All you need is a sheet of cardboard, an Android phone, and a little ingenuity. Oh yeah, and you’ll need Google’s new app Cardboard, which, when run on a mobile situated inside a homem
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Google, oculus rift, Virtual Reality, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Apparently, you don’t need a hefty black face-mask with rubber straps to access the constructs of virtual reality. All you need is a sheet of cardboard, an Android phone, and a little ingenuity.

Oh yeah, and you’ll need Google’s new app [*Cardboard*](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.cardboarddemo&ref=killscreen.com), which, when run on a mobile situated inside a homemade cardboard mask, presents an in-your-face view of Google Earth, Street View, and other VR-ified versions of Google apps, like watching YouTube on a huge screen. The downside is that you are wearing a paper mask on your face. And you thought Google Glass was styleless!

This has very noble intentions, similar to the aims of groups who build [cardboard computers](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/these-guys-are-using-games-teach-african-kids-computer-literacy/?ref=killscreen.com) to spread computer literacy. Virtual reality is a potentially important tech that with potentially huge accessibility issues. Cheap, ready-to-use VR equipment could lead to a swelling of grassroots creativity in the space.

You can find a template for constructing your own paper headset [here.](https://developers.google.com/cardboard/?ref=killscreen.com)