Google Cardboard Games Are Awful

Turns out burning rotten cardboard smells bad. Stays around with ya too. Still not nearly as annoying as using this piece of trash.
Don’t know why I subjected myself to this for a whole month. Never again. Hopefully. Probably. Let’s see how this one does first.
You can watch my OG vid on the topic here;
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[@Whimsu]

On my other channel I go in more in-depth about phone VR and google cardboard and stuff; kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5vSiYqCmJVqbpY

[@xp7575]

10:12 finally the dystopian metaverse 😂 Honestly tho the whole script was hysterical...

[@IkeSan]

Wait you are Knowledge Husk. Now I notice it. More with the fairly odd parents video.

[@d.c.8828]

I like this video better (on the Whimsu channel).

[@atomicozzy8910]

Oh my, I thought Knowledge Husk was a different person with a super similar voice.

[@degiguess]

google cardboard honestly felt more like an art project than an actual product. Would've been better off if they never sold it and just used it as a random toy to hand out at conventions or something

[@remyd8767]

Unless, it's Google Search, Android, Pixel Phone, or their Cloud Services, most things Google release seem like a side passion with no financial goals attached.

[@Clarkzer0]

My school ordered hundreds and never used them, once. Needless to say, I own a few boxes of these bad boys, and they're just as useless as they've ever been. A cool concept, but such poor execution.

[@joriankell1983]

The school spent money to keep their budget for next year, otherwise it gets cut

[@Hugme778]

@@joriankell1983 so they buy pointless shit to fill a quot? Peak school planning

[@pandaonabus]

@@Hugme778 Got to love the way governments fund things

[@IneptOrange]

How do schools consistently buy the worst dogshit ever?

[@lego_minifig]

The acting in Scary House deserves an Oscar

[@d.c.8828]

💀

[@Herrikias]

It needed the Get Closer mechanic to really capture the horror of precious picture frames being broken by gravity.

[@unfa00]

12:43 That scream sound effect is taken straight from Half-Life 2.

[@TammyJerkChicken]

I will warn anyone who was interested by the art in the game at 9:00 this is a free Unreal Engine level art that’s SUPER popular and is all over the place in cheap and not so cheap games, you can even remake this VR game so that the font is in from software red and steps are properly done ✅

[@todesziege]

The asset store killed game development.

[@joriankell1983]

Imagine selling a piece of cardboard for the cost of other cardboard that actually has a product in it

[@Corey_Brandt]

I was excited about google cardboard bc I thought I’d be able to cheap out on getting a VR headset and play steam games using my phone as a VR headset. (I was sadly mistaken)

[@TheMcpeMick]

there is actually workaround for that with riftcat, if you want to realise that dream of yours now!

[@BenoHourglass]

@@TheMcpeMick Tried that. My experience was somewhere between "bad" and "godawful"

[@adhdh]

quest 2 with the app Virtual desktop or a link cable is the best way to go for cheap VR in my opinion.

[@TheMcpeMick]

@@adhdh riftcat was a thing before the first quest even released tho

[@mcmadness110]

@@TheMcpeMick it was best when paired with nolo vr or hacked together so move tracking.

[@jaydubb01]

Respect for putting your eyes through all of that

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

A VR game (like a good one) about helping you get over public speaking sounds kinda like a good idea. I'd probably just start insulting the crowd though for fun.

[@nekooccult3466]

There exists one. But it's a bit costly

[@KetamineUser69]

XDD sameeeeeee

[@Grey.Minerva]

i'm an idiot, sitting here thinking "wow, this guy sounds exactly like knowledge hub".

[@WarrenGenders]

I can't believe I haven't fucked noticed until now,

[@daviddiaz2940]

The locked door had me cracking up ngl

[@OldnGold]

I can't wait for Google's next VR venture, Google Papier-Mâché

[@TheGahta]

I laughed so hard at the locked door

[@madcat789]

You and Knowledge posted a video at the exact same time on Google Cardboard.

[@xp7575]

Literally the same guy lol

[@d.c.8828]

Wow, what are the odds?

[@JuanAndresDiazTorres]

Oh well, I guess I’ll have to spend thousands of dollars on a real virtual reality headset if this budget alternative is really that badly executed.

[@djk1288]

If you have about 300 bucks, there's always the Meta Quest 2 or the Pico Neo 3. They handled standalone VR much better than the Google Cardboard ever did.

[@CatgirlKazu]

If you're a PC gamer with some hot shit under the hood, then by all means go for it--it's a really unique experience and you might find something you fall in love with. The Oculus Quest 2 doubles as a PC headset, making it the best bang-for-buck by far. If you'll just be using the Quest 2 in standalone mode, well, it costs 300 dollars, so if that's a reasonable amount for you then it still might be worth a try!

[@CatgirlKazu]

VR enthusiasts sometimes like to say that Google Cardboard is one of the biggest reasons why people write VR off as a doomed gimmick. I don't know about that, though. I don't think *anybody* could look at this bullshit and say "gee, I guess VR must all be like this"

[@LARVideos]

You'd be surprised. I've had many a time where I've tried to explain that VR *ISN'T* that.

[@emanuel3617]

You must have the "vision" I used Google cardboard and it was shit, but I was like: "yes, this is the future and I know where this can go" I was right lol

[@CatgirlKazu]

@@LARVideos I think people just say that because they aren't interested and they don't think they can be convinced. I actually find that the opposite is true--people tend to fall in love with Beat Saber and Superhot and nowadays maybe Alyx, only to find that Alyx is the pinnacle and nothing out there is anywhere near as clean or ambitious.

[@LARVideos]

@@CatgirlKazu there's plenty, but almost all of them are Facebook funded exclusives.

[@alberquiky1]

@@LARVideos what exclusives? There are wrappers to allow exclusive VR games to work with 3rd party headsets, and I never hear about people talking about good Facebook games.

[@TheNewblade1]

I could not stop laughing at his cardboard being soggy.

[@Elomentoplayz]

I remember using it and it hurt my eyes because the phone screen was to low quality and it was too bright. You couldn't really do much in google cardboard when I tried it because everything was shut down.

[@comicsanz97]

Get closer Get closer Get closer Locked

[@machina_spirit]

I like how Tyler’s cardboard slowly gets more banged up and destroyed as the video goes on 😂

[@blunderingfool]

The fact he complained about the usefulness whilst showing it in that state was infuriating. Gives the impression that he's too stupid to realise you need to take care of your stuff which I'm sure isn't the case... SO WHY PORTRAY YOURSELF AS SUCH?!

[@remyd8767]

@@blunderingfool for the cheap hyperbole

[@AnimatedTerror]

The problem was, what did it accomplish? What was there to see and do with cardboard aside from some crappy mobile game tier games? As much as I dislike meta and Facebook at least that’s attempting to do something a bit more constructive.

[@spiderspit1911]

The most use I ever got out of mine was looking at disneyland in google maps and rewatching the 360 live action jungle book movie ad with king louie

[@EmilySucksAtGaming]

The Hub had some VR videos that got old quick

[@spiderspit1911]

@@EmilySucksAtGaming bout the only reason you'd want to buy a cardboard headset, really.

[@joel3399]

You could watch yt videos, that was the only decent feature

[@Squaretable22]

Its the only way you're going to get VR Adult Entertainment for $10 :P

[@hands_0n543]

Google cardboard to VR is the equivalent of tomatoes to fruit. Like yeah technically it's the same thing, but c'mon

[@mystman1210]

There is one, ONE amazing use for phone VR, and that's VR panoramas. If you take a panorama with the Google camera app, it can be viewed as a VR image. This isn't just a flat panorama you can look around, the image is actually 3D, and you can hear the audio that was recorded when you took the image as well. It's a really cool way to capture a memory or location. I've got panoramas of places that don't even exist anymore, and this is the closest I'll ever be able to get to revisiting them.

[@lexiontwitch]

google cardboard as a fun little 5-minute toy is a neat idea and then someone made scary house vr

[@sw0578]

I remember there was a game where you sat in a flying car that was pretty cool. Other than that this is like browsing the Eshop on Switch

[@iamastrangeloop96]

I really hope the phone pop-in VR thing gets given another chance in the future, with cleaner execturion. With phone screens having massively increased PPI, way faster chips especially for graphics, much better general motion tracking, high refresh + OLED screens I feel like an average phone goes quite a ways towards checking all the boxes for a decent VR experience. Integrating handsets and software compatibility are big hurdles but not impassible...

[@mom0367]

Why was the best one literally just a 360 video of a room full of people while text appears at the bottom.

[@danieltakacs8222]

Games will crash if you don't give permission to your files haha. They need to load assets, save / load, etc. Game dev here.

[@Amesang]

KnowledgeHusk brought me here…

[@xegton]

“Scary house VR” - so I see Newgrounds took a stab at VR games…

[@FuzzWoof]

The best thing Cardboard did was piss me off enough to try a Gear VR, which annoyed me enough to try a Rift, which then got me hooked on the slippery and expensive VR slope forever, ha.

[@JobyRetrograde]

Imagine you download a Google cardboard game for your phone, you put the phone in the headset, you wear the headset, an ad plays, so you remove the headset, take the phone out, click on a tiny x to close the ad, put the phone in the headset, and put the headset back on

[@benh.8082]

I had the Samsung gear vr and I loved it with my s7 edge back in the day. Games were a bit better than cardboard but I enjoyed watching shows from Netflix , and youtube.

[@rewind-sync]

my mouse and audio died at 12:36 and honestly my first thought was that it was the fish game doing it

[@ConsultingHumor]

This has major Mr. Plinkett vibes

[@thequestion8697]

I remember when google presented this in my high school. I remember being very confused about why I was being advertised to at school.

[@emanuel3617]

Am I crazy if I say that I still believe in Google cardboard? I mean, I feel like noone actually tried hard enough. We could make it work. Like: *Fixing the menus to work in VR *Try to make the game more phone friendly with simple styled graphics. *Use simple gamedev technics to get as much performance as possible *We need games that will keep the user playing for longer *We need to design a standard button configuration to use all the features the best way * We need more robust configurations, for graphics and lenses (more flexible) * We chould create solutions for the 6 dofs problem (it needs to be simple and not graphical intense) Those are a few ideas. It won't be the Vive pro or index, but you will definitely have a better time

[@sl_50]

i think the problem is that no matter how user-friendly you try and make the UI, most phones will never have the same depth-sensing capabilities as a dedicated VR headset, so any game that requires moving your head is out of the question

[@emanuel3617]

@@sl_50 i know, that's why I think we should stop thinking about google cardboard as normal VR. We need to see it as something different, it doesn't need to be mind blowing I think that a lot can be done just to give a little taste of VR for the people. I have so much ideas for applications and solutions I hope I can make something to change the cardboard fate

[@mstieferman]

you should set up a pi hole on your network to avoid these ads

[@konstantinlozev2272]

Cardboard was nice for Google Steetview. There were a couple who f unicorn apps: 1. Galaxy VR 2. Gravity Pull 3. Wrong Level 4. Blink Escape But the absolute best was the Quake 2 VR port from Stefan Welker from Durovis Dive

[@aturchomicz821]

Holy shit this video is so much more aggressive then the one on the Main Channel, im so fucking tired this is killing me- 💀

[@afivey]

"Get closer. Get closer. Get closer. Get closer. Locked." Tragicomedy.

[@c6jones720]

I really appreciate this video, Ive only just gotten into Oculus Go and Gear VR. I was wondering what the differences were between cardboard and the older oculus stuff, as to me technically they werent that dissimilar. It seems like general phone VR was a promising concept with potential, but it was let down by a bad software ecosystem.

[@Xer0sama]

So bad it made Tyler sound actually lucid.

[@Whalester]

The public speaking app actually looks like a reason to pick one of these up at the time. That could have helped me in high-school.

[@appul_]

this video is pure gold

[@daviddgtnt]

TBH Nintendo Labo VR is better Edit: I have 3 VR headsets, Labo, a knock-off cardboard one from Goodwill, and a Quest 2

[@lorddarthvader6289]

Speaking about the misaligned images, third party headsets allowed you to adjust the glasses. Didn't know google cardboard lacked this feature. Most of these were really underbaked huh.

[@magNICKal]

Ok but my favorite google cardboard game out of all of them is Voxel VR. It was/is an endless evasion flight though a tunnel game, with different game modes and a non vr mode.

[@ChristianGyro]

The montage is real good this time well done man 👍

[@impcec6734]

This channel is becoming the spiritual successor to Mr. Plinkett reviews

[@altaccount648]

I literally bought a phone vr headset a week ago, it's awesome for movies and some games.

[@keithdafox2257]

Seeing what VR used to be makes me realize how damn far we've come since then

[@Blerwerler]

Tyler... Thank You.

[@dragon_ninja_2186]

The literal embodiment of VR at home.

[@ryanb9749]

It was cool in 2014... for 5 minutes.

[@CorndogBrownie]

Instant Thumbs up for Regular Show reference

[@MrBenMcLean]

What the Google Cardboard does well is watching 3D movies which you can rip from 3D blu rays.

[@thomaskast7842]

Lmao these look so bad. I remember a couple games being quite decent, can't remember their names though.

[@m12m123]

Again... finaly ...another video

[@darwindarwin7923]

The locked door! Oh my god 🤣

[@hy_five1740]

Snowfall VR is something that looks up you alley

[@anthonygotttheonly]

I always love companion videos 🐣 keep up the great work

[@parkerweger5978]

Babe wake up, new Whimsu upload

[@MrWhiteFireOG]

I don't think the games were ever meant to be good. But to show you what VR could be. And a great intro into VR.

[@annonymat]

Kist checked: Gravity Train VR and RollerCoasterVR by Fibrum still work fine on my iPhone 11 Pro, nice experiences when you have a headset.

[@neo_ds]

It's funny, phones have the ability to track your head location, up down and around, but the chose not to, very sad

[@swaggerdagger8976]

Damn you uploaded the second channel vid first

[@doublinx2]

Google could have done a lot for Cardboard by setting much stricter guidelines for UI, UX, and ad placement. Paying to make the entire UI usable in VR is pretty goofy 🥴🥴

[@maxwinkler9471]

I'll always be terrified of the sisters game

[@InterstellarStarSailor]

13:12 Stop it stop it, he's already dead!!!

[@ZiggityZeke]

didnt include the only good cardboard game, quake vr

[@TheDeadmanTT]

What's the rarest Google Cardboard tho?

[@rusland9]

I actually spent some time looking for games to play and there are some interesting (for a google cardboard) experiences and even games

[@coloradorc]

My dad gave me one that he got for free when I was 11 years old and I didn't have a phone back then. I think it is somewhere still.

[@verynameboi4121]

I wish google continued this and combined it with google stadia or the cloud or smthing for higher quality games

[@tecpaocelotl]

Public speaking was also on the samsung gear.

[@tivvy2vs21]

I got a weird headset from the Kennedy space centre

[@bit-studios1]

I laughed sooo hard to the point my stomach started hurting!!! 😂🤣🤣😂👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 But seriously, you really have to put the blame on those game developers that are doing a poor job making games on this device. I use the Google Cardboard to 360 degree tours and videos for clients and they love it. 😊🤗

[@annonymat]

That's sad, that Fibrum Apps didn't work for you, they where amazing! The had well done rollercoasters

[@joel3399]

Why were this games allowed on the play store 😂

[@JamesTDG]

honestly though, there is a chance for a good game to come from this, the only real issue is a lack in inspiration. I probably could figure out a way to get this to work if I applied enough time researching phone VR.

[@Amphibax]

Why does the future need so many permissions and crashes so often? I'm going to stay in the present

[@Neptune15543]

Why did I put Google cardboard on my Christmas list

[@Neptune15543]

I really don't know I was really excited but now in sad

[@NicholasAfari-Mintah]

i remember when this first came out in 2014 i was 6 when i tried it out, i was so impressed by it but now it just looks so outdated. and current mobile vr is much better than this now.

[@Placeholder93]

Scary house looked awesome

[@khaled99069]

*locked*

[@tylerlecuyer4015]

I remember chair in a room being a pretty good game

[@JoaoPedro-ki7ct]

The door was locked! 😂

[@FluffBear01]

i'm glad i had an oculus go as my first VR headset.

[@magimon91834]

Art

[@NamelessGamer29]

So weird. I just watched a video on google cardboard on a completely different channel and they were uploaded around the same time.

[@Gatorade69]

Go rewatch that video. Pay attention to the voice. Oh ! They are the same person.

[@mortysmith2192]

If anyone has anything that's actually good feel free to mention it

[@AAAAGamesGames]

I guess rhythm taichi have actually a pretty good vr Mode... the only problem is that you need a second phone as a controller ;-;

[@mortysmith2192]

@@AAAAGamesGames thanks I’ll try it

[@klaasioproost4883]

Thanks for the hack. I'm waiting for more

[@gastroesophagealreflux6285]

*virtual standing clapping*

[@ryanb9749]

The fibrum joke killed me. 🤣

[@renReee]

I now know what it is like to suffer

[@dendostar5436]

Man subjects himself to crap for our entertaining.

[@ghastlyhaste4475]

The "good sound effect" from the aquarium game was stolen from Half-Life 2....

[@PrinceZiim]

Just got my meta quest 3 and a psvr2 and I wanted to see how bad google cardboard was and it seems like it should never have existed, even the old Samsung VR was a decent experience for $100