Chrome VR Browsing Makes It to Daydream View

Posted by jvh | Jul 31, 2018 | Virtual Reality, XR Trends | 0

For those of you with Daydream-compatible head-mounted displays (HMDs), you can now browse the web using Google Chrome with all of the features you’ve grown accustomed to with Virtual Reality (VR) optimization for all of your favorite web content. Daydream-specific features, like “cinema mode”, optimizes web video for the best viewing experience in VR. With Chrome now integrated into Daydream, you can start browsing on your phone, whether it is reading your favorite news article or watching a YouTube video, and easily switch to your headset.

Chrome VR can be launched from the homepage of Google Daydream View and the Lenovo Mirage Solo with Daydream, powered by certain Android smartphones. Click here to see if your smartphone is compatible with Daydream View.

What new features are you looking forward to implementing now that Chrome is VR ready? Let us know in the comments down below!

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Browse the web in VR: Chrome launches on Daydream View

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Joseph Van Harken -- is an award-winning journalist, producer and showrunner who operates and innovates on the edge of the supply and demand of storytelling. From war zones to war rooms, Joseph is adept at creating, sharing and consuming stories of consequence across television, digital media, and eLearning publishing platforms. He started his career as a print reporter and photojournalist for The Mackinac Island Town Crier, a small weekly rag in a timeless Michigan tourist town. His affinity for moving pictures soon pulled him toward television and he moved to work at the ABC affiliate in El Paso, TX where he developed an online backend CMS and partnered with Mark Cuban's Broadcast.com to establish KVIA as one of the first news stations porting news content to the web. Joseph then moved to New York City during the Dot Com boom where he was a founding member of World Now, a local TV internet platform. From there he joined CNN.com and CNN as a one-man-band, multimedia political beat reporter. Joseph then broke off and became an independent, international multimedia reporter and producer and covering stories all over the globe from Afghanistan, Indonesia, India, Costa Rica, Okinawa, New Orleans and New York creating television and web content for National Geographic, Travel Channel, MTV News, History, A&E, SyFy, Animal Planet, Discovery Health, and Vogue Magazine. During a multi-year stint with MTV, he shot/produced for TRUE LIFE, DIARY, MADE, DP’d the pilot for 8th & OCEAN, developed, Co-EP'd and DP’d THE PAPER, created, developed, EP'd and DP’d MY LIFE AS LIZ season 1 & 2 and recently Co-EP’d the History Channel series DARK HORSE NATION produced by Warrior Poets. Realizing that storytelling is essentially a form of teaching, he launched th3rd coast Entertainment & Training to satiate the eLearning industry's dire need for quality, engaging content. Joseph holds a BA in Communications from the University of Michigan and an MS from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he was named the Society of Professional Journalists Student of the Year and won the John M Patterson Documentary Television award.

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