YouTube adds support for VR and Google also Cardboard on iOS

Google has introduced support for Google Cardboard on the official YouTube client for iOS. The application has received a small update routine in the past few hours in which it is especially appreciable on the side of this new functionality. It is a feature of the app for Android has for months, and it can now also be usable with iPhone and iPad. To do this simply press the specific icon which can be found in each video.

Google Cardboard is a viewer for virtual reality both economic and rudimentary. It is a great way to get a taste of the new technology and is especially useful to navigate the 360 ​​° video. Within the viewer, formed from a cardboard structure in which are incorporated two lenses, it must be installed a smartphone, which acts as a display and that it is necessary to carry out all the calculations of the software and related orientation in space.

The Mountain View company is pushing a lot about virtual reality, and it is likely that this issue will be dealt with extensively during the keynote of the Google I / O opening, which will be held tomorrow May 18 at 19 Italian. Apple on the other side is a bit 'late on the technology, although he has expressed interest several times against him before with some patents filed, then with the formation of a virtual reality experts and increased.

Who has a Cardboard and wants to exploit it with your iOS device can do that already in many specific applications, some with three-dimensional graphics. From the past few hours we have been added to the list of compatible apps even YouTube, starting from version 11.18 or later. The update is automatically applied if the app is already installed on the device, or can be forced via the App Store from where you can proceed to download and install the client.