{"id":13186,"date":"2014-08-13T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=13186"},"modified":"2014-08-13T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T21:00:42","slug":"pack-xamarin-in-your-cardboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/pack-xamarin-in-your-cardboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Pack Xamarin in your Cardboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tVirtual Reality is a hot topic these days and is viewed by many as the platform of tomorrow in some fields, like game development.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13189\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/cardboard-xamarin.png\" alt=\"cardboard-xamarin\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At this year&#8217;s Google I\/O conference, among the flurry of product announcements, Google presented an interesting project called <a href=\"http:\/\/g.co\/cardboard\" title=\"Google Cardboard\">Cardboard<\/a>. The experiment sprouts from a desire to make virtual reality, as popularized by devices like the Oculus Rift, more accessible to everybody. The result is a simple, affordable, and open virtual reality headset based on off-the-shelves parts that uses an Android phone for the heavy lifting of sensors, computation, and display.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our newly released <a href=\"http:\/\/components.xamarin.com\/view\/googlecardboard\">Google Cardboard component<\/a>, Xamarin.Android developers can now also create virtual reality applications that work on the Cardboard platform.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the included CardboardMonkey app for an example of a simple game that takes advantage of the immersive nature of the platform:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13200\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/xamarin-cardboardmonkey-1024x605.png\" alt=\"xamarin-cardboardmonkey\" width=\"1024\" height=\"605\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/g.co\/cardboard\">official Cardboard website<\/a> for instructions on how to build your own Cardboard shell. Alternatively, pre-assembled versions are available from several online retailers.<\/p>\n<p>You can also head to the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/cardboard\/overview\">Google Developers website<\/a> for more details on the Cardboard API.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Reality is a hot topic these days and is viewed by many as the platform of tomorrow in some fields, like game development. At this year&#8217;s Google I\/O conference, among the flurry of product announcements, Google presented an interesting project called Cardboard. The experiment sprouts from a desire to make virtual reality, as popularized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1925,"featured_media":39167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-13186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","tag-xamarin-platform"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Virtual Reality is a hot topic these days and is viewed by many as the platform of tomorrow in some fields, like game development. At this year&#8217;s Google I\/O conference, among the flurry of product announcements, Google presented an interesting project called Cardboard. The experiment sprouts from a desire to make virtual reality, as popularized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}