Google has announced it would be releasing the Cardboard open source project to “let the developer community continue to build Cardboard experiences & add support to their apps for an ever increasing diversity of smartphone screen resolutions & configurations.”
Google said on its official blog:
We think that an open source model—with additional contributions from us — is the best way for developers to continue to build experiences for Cardboard. We’ve already seen success with this approach with our Cardboard Manufacturer Kit — an open source project to enable third-party manufacturers to design & build their own unique compatible VR viewers — & we’re excited to see where the developer community takes Cardboard in the future.
As part of this exercise, Google is releasing libraries for developers to build their Cardboard apps for iOS & Android, & render VR experiences on Cardboard viewers. The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering & input handling, & also an Android QR code library, so that apps can pair any Cardboard viewer without depending on the Cardboard app, added Google.
