The Pixel 4 doesn't work with Daydream anymore.
#VR SUPPORTED DEVICES ANDROID#
This story was originally written last Halloween, but it's been updated now that Google has ended Daydream support completely in Android 11, and Halloween is around the corner again. And, visiting the ghosts of mobile VR from the middle of the last decade. Understanding why the Daydream and Gear VR have gone away means asking why Google, Facebook and Samsung have moved on from phone VR as a strategy.
#VR SUPPORTED DEVICES SIMULATOR#
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is getting VR support, too. There have been amazing VR games: Half-Life: Alyx, Star Wars: Squadrons. There are headsets that plug into PCs, and there are standalone headsets. In fact, there have been a ton of new VR headsets lately: the Oculus Quest and Quest 2, the Valve Index and the HP Reverb G2. Sometimes this feels utterly weird to me, because phone VR seems like it would be the perfect distraction in 2020.Īnd yet, VR at large is still here. Gear VR has long vanished from Samsung's product events. John Carmack, former CTO of Facebook's Oculus, which partnered with Samsung on Gear VR, delivered a eulogy for the now-vanished VR goggles last year. The Daydream View VR hardware vanished from Google's web store last year, and Google's phones stopped even working with Daydream since the Pixel 4. One year after Google announced it was killing off Daydream, its own mobile phone-connected VR platform, Google's newest Android 11 phone OS no longer supports it at all. Nearly six years later, no one's putting phones into VR goggles anymore. They were powered by a phone, they could be taken anywhere, and they just worked.
I don't think anything wowed me more than those early Samsung Gear VR experiences. I wanted to see what he thought of what I was about to show him, from a display perspective.Ī few 3D 360-degree videos and virtual aquariums later, he was impressed as I was. In late 2014, I pulled CNET TV editor David Katzmaier into a conference room to show him a black plastic pair of goggles fitted over a Samsung phone.
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