{"id":8691,"date":"2018-08-20T08:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2018-08-16T08:08:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T08:08:54","slug":"google-chrome-is-officially-launching-on-daydream-vr-headsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/08\/20\/google-chrome-is-officially-launching-on-daydream-vr-headsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome is officially launching on Daydream VR headsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-entry-content\">\n<p id=\"9E4Y76\">Google is officially adding the Chrome browser to its Daydream virtual reality platform. As of today, people using the phone-based Daydream View headset or the standalone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2v0aaa4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lenovo Mirage Solo<\/a>\u00a0can access Chrome from their home screens. The VR version of Chrome mostly has the same feature set as its desktop counterpart, but there\u2019s an added \u201ccinema mode\u201d that optimizes web video for VR viewing. Just as importantly, Chrome supports the WebVR standard, so users can access web-based VR experiences on their Daydream headsets.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Q9W4m8\">Daydream users (and users\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/4\/19\/17257940\/google-chrome-oculus-rift-support-virtual-reality-web-vr-apps\">of other headsets<\/a>) have had access to VR Chrome and its WebVR components for a while, through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/browsing-web-google-daydream\">test versions<\/a>\u00a0of the browser\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/2\/9\/14568610\/google-daydream-view-chrome-content-vr\">or through<\/a>\u00a0Chrome\u2019s mobile Android app. But this announcement positions this version of Chrome as a stable, full-fledged browsing app, not an experiment or a conduit for WebVR.<\/p>\n<p id=\"sapfqq\">Daydream\u2019s integration with existing Google products has been a selling point for the company, although Google VR apps have spread to lots of headsets; it released a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/7\/25\/17613626\/youtube-vr-app-samsung-gear-device-videos\">YouTube app<\/a>\u00a0for the Samsung Gear VR just last week. There aren\u2019t necessarily people clamoring to shift all their web browsing to virtual reality. But a full-featured web browser is useful for doing things like looking up tutorials for a VR app \u2014 especially in a self-contained headset like the Mirage Solo where you can\u2019t just switch back to normal mobile browsing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"formatter-datter\" class=\"u-hidden-text\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is officially adding the Chrome browser to its Daydream virtual reality platform. As of today, people using the phone-based Daydream View headset or the standalone\u00a0Lenovo Mirage Solo\u00a0can access Chrome from their home screens. The VR version of Chrome mostly has the same feature set as its desktop counterpart, but there\u2019s an added \u201ccinema mode\u201d&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/08\/20\/google-chrome-is-officially-launching-on-daydream-vr-headsets\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Google Chrome is officially launching on Daydream VR headsets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-virtual-reality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8692,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions\/8692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}