In order not to fall behind Facebook and Oculus Rift, Google is in the process of investing heavily in the field of virtual reality. A version of Android would be dedicated to this purpose is currently developing.
Google already offers the cardboard, a kind of virtual reality helmet cardboard that users are invited to get themselves to the joys of VR through their smartphone. The experience is still very limited compared to what Samsung offers with its Gear VR, and much more of what offers the Oculus Rift from Facebook and Oculus VR, who plays the market standard master as he does not even accessible to the general public.
But the Mountain View Company would have taken the bull by the strings not to be left behind. According to a rumor cited by the Wall Street Journal, the company would have secretly started work on the Android version specifically dedicated to virtual reality. A dozen developers currently plancheraient on the project, whose objective would be to make the perfect Android operating system for future virtual reality helmets carrying a OS.
At present, there are in fact two types of headphones: those that connects to a computer or a specific machine, such as the Oculus Rift, the Sony Morpheus or the recent HTC Vive and Valve for currently not available for sale, and those that need to integrate a smartphone, and found more and more in the market, the Samsung side or Archos, for example. Autonomous helmets, carrying an operating system, are likely not the priority for manufacturers, but the reason may lie in the lack of OS dedicated to this type of objects.
Google could play opportunistic offering an Android dedicated to virtual reality, to get a place in a rapidly changing market. To say that the company may launch its own autonomous helmet, there is a step…
Google is working on version of Android virtual reality
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