Daydream – Google VR
So a slightly more production-ready version of cardboard, but requires a specific phone that not one customer has yet.<p>When do we stop buying into the Google product hype? How many other chase-the-rabbit approaches to products is Google going to shove in front of our faces before we realize it&#x27;s almost all smoke and mirrors? It seems completely laughable to me that this &quot;product&quot; will even <i>exist</i> past 2017, let alone be any kind of leader in anything (innovation, market share, creating a new market space, etc.).<p>I know jaded cynicism is never attractive, but it&#x27;s honestly baffling to me how these threads aren&#x27;t peppered with what I would think to be well-justified skepticism when it comes to Google and their ambitious hardware products. They almost never succeed, period! You never even hear about them most of the time a few months after they get launched, and the only time when you do is when the PR machine is working fast and furious to prop it up (see: Glass).<p>So sure, let&#x27;s all pretend that wearing a pair of underwear on your face stuffed with a cell phone is going to advance VR. Yeah. That seems totally plausible.