Happy to answer any questions people have on the kit, our product page seems to be hiding the description so here are some more details.
We did the math and it costs over $45 to order all those bits and pieces Google suggested, and that doesn't even include shipping from 4 different vendors.
We are gathering all the pieces you will need to assemble your own Google cardboard VR goggle (minus the smartphone). We precut the cardboard and you should be able to assemble all the pieces in under 5 minutes. Easy Peezy. Get cracking and place your order.
Here is what comes in your kit..
- Precut cardboard
- Lenses
- Magnet
- Velcro
- Rubberband
- upgrade for optional NFC tag (not included in base kit)
As it stands right now, it seems to be highly misleading. If I hadn't read your comment I could be misled to believe that you are selling the 'Official' version for the following reasons:
1- Using Google's own images.
2- Nothing indicating that it isn't official.
It is at worse maliciously misleading, at best misguided. You should correct that.
All of that copy in my comment is suppose to be displayed on the product page but Shopify seems to be broken at the moment. We are not trying to mislead anyone.
Google released all the drawings and is encouraging people to build these, we just want to help make that easier.
Wow, really glad I read the comments before I put in my credit card info. Four to six weeks, you must be out of your mind. If you don't get that one the site fast you're going to have a whole lot of angry people on your hands.
I can appreciate the eagerness to get everything instantly. However I hope you can appreciate that physically cutting and shipping lots of stuff that was only announced to the world 12 hours ago takes time. I wish hardware was as easy as pushing something to Git hub but unfortunatly it is not.
You are always welcome to go order the parts and cut the cardboard yourself.
>Sorry, in the age of near-immediate gratification from Amazon, up to 42 days until I see the product I paid for is a huge turn off.
If you frequently find yourself angry that you can't buy a new package Amazon-style less than 12 hours from its announcement to the general public, I would suggest you seek professional help as you might be able to improve your impulse control.
sorry we were just messing around with trying to fix the product description thing. Try going back to product page and adding to cart again and it should work.
Thank you, I appreciate the support. We are lucky enough to have our own factory here in San Francisco so can hop on oppurtunities like these quickly, one of the benefits of DIY manufacturing.
drop me a line at my name @ easypost if you want a hand looking into some of the shipping options - I think it's amazing that you guys are offering this a few hours after the announcement!
Wow, that was really fast. I kind of suspected someone would do this, I even considered doing something similar myself after I heard the announcement. Really clever and nice work guys. Curious to see how these actually fare and if we'll see an enthusiast community is spawned from Google Cardboard and the community itself works to improve the insanely simple and awesome concept.
I had heard rumors that regular use of Oculus can cure motion sickness that people experience in cars/etc through desensetization. Anyone have any first-hand reports on this question?
If so, I'm tempted to buy a kit like this (from these guys or someone else) and use that to self-medicate.
Placed my order, can't wait to try it out. I think what you guys are doing is great, I can see how it would take a bit of time to mass produce. Besides, you save money and don't need to go to ebay and spend $100 on official ones. Keep rocking it gents!
can you sell just the lenses without the rest of the setup for a lower cost/faster ship time? Many people (including myself) want to build their own, but are having a massive amount of trouble finding the lenses as the original set google linked to sold out almost immediately. Also, what are the specifications of the lenses you use?
Thanks
We did the math and it costs over $45 to order all those bits and pieces Google suggested, and that doesn't even include shipping from 4 different vendors.
We are gathering all the pieces you will need to assemble your own Google cardboard VR goggle (minus the smartphone). We precut the cardboard and you should be able to assemble all the pieces in under 5 minutes. Easy Peezy. Get cracking and place your order.
Here is what comes in your kit.. - Precut cardboard - Lenses - Magnet - Velcro - Rubberband - upgrade for optional NFC tag (not included in base kit)
estimated delivery 4-6 weeks