Google: Cardboard Apps Surpass 25 Million Installs on Google Play

Google has released usage statistics for its Google Cardboard virtual reality headset.

Google has announced it has shipped more than five million Google Cardboard viewers to consumers. Introduced in 2014, the headset allows users to insert their smartphone into the viewer to experience virtual reality content through supported apps and videos.

Google has released additional stats from Cardboard’s first 19 months, including the fact that Cardboard apps have been downloaded from Google Play more than 25 million times, with 10 million of those downloads taking place from October 2015 to December 2015.

Google Cardboard Installs

According to Google, there are more than 1,000 Cardboard-supported apps on Google Play, with the No.

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