Daydream View VR headset is now available in India priced at Rs. 6,499. The VR headset has been listed on Flipkart and will include the controller as well. The headset was first made available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Germany back in November last year.headset is being offered on Flipkart with 5 percent off for Axis Bank Buzz Credit Cards and Rs. 300 cash back on payment through PhonePe. EMI options are also available and each pair of headset comes with 1 year of warranty. First 30 customers to buy Google Daydream View VR via Flipkart will also receive Google Chromecast for free, while the first 50 customers will receive a Google Play Store Credit worth Rs. 500.
The Daydream View VR headset is made up of a lightweight fabric for a comfortable feel. The controller lets you interact with the virtual world, letting you take various actions with help of motion and gesture sensors and physical buttons. The Daydream app that houses a collection of apps and games for Daydream-ready phones. The YouTube VR app will let you watch 3D or standard 360-degree videos with the Daydream View headset. The Street View app lets you tour over 150 popular real-world places, while Play Movies offers some VR-ready movies."Daydream View promises users a mesmerising experience. Swim with a pod of dolphins, stand at the edge of a volcano and even visit Pluto with Daydream View. Users can teleport from virtually anywhere to pretty much everywhere. Our aim is to make the VR experience mobile so that customers can easily carry it anywhere with them.
Virtual Reality might still not be for everyone, but setting up the VR headset is not a challenge. One has to first open the Daydream app on the supported phone, and in my case, it was the Pixel XL. After that just follow, the instructions and the headset gets synced pretty quickly. The advantage is that because Daydream is on the Google Platform, one doesn’t need to sign into a different account, create one, etc. The Google Account sign-in is used to get access to the VR apps.When setting up the Daydream View VR headset, you have to open the Daydream app on your phone. Once the phone has connected with the headset via the Bluetooth controller, just place the Pixel smartphone inside the headset, put it on and get to browsing.Like all Virtual Reality headsets, this one requires reliable and fast WiFi connection in order to download VR ready apps. Coming to the apps, YouTube, Google Play Store, Google Photos (shows all your panorama photos), Google Play Movies, are some of the apps you’ll see when you first get into the virtual world. There are lot of games as well, but most of these VR games are paid, and I wasn’t in the mood to pay.
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