Go visit your childhood home, then keep 'walking' around your neighborhood.

With Google Street View, you can type in any street address. While you can watch any YouTube video in Daydream (with keyboard or voice search), YouTube 360 videos can let you swim with dolphins or get up close to your favorite YouTube stars. The Daydream View works with longer hair, too. Update: Here are our thoughts on the best apps so far.Īnd there is one reason you might want to pick up Daydream right away: virtual teleportation. Thankfully, we should get to try more apps soon: Google is promising 25 apps on day one. Google Arts and Culture is a great idea - visit art galleries in VR - but the screen resolution of even the Pixel XL wasn't enough to appreciate the fine detail in paintings like the famous ' A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.'Īnd while it's neat to be able to watch a rented movie in VR, the Google Play Movies app (a single, relatively small screen) is far from the best way I've seen to do it.

The Wall Street Journal app is a fascinating way to visualize how the economy is doing - you use the touchpad to rotate a holographic table which turns each majorly traded company's share price into a 3D bar graph, and consume a small selection of articles and videos - but I'm not sure even regular traders would care for such a small, generic slice of info instead of something tailored to their specific portfolios. Even as I marveled at how I could look around the hellish environment of Hunter's Gate or Wonderglade's cartoony amusement park just by turning my head, their unimpressive graphics and slow, repetitive gameplay bored me after just a few minutes. To be honest, it's not a big enough selection to really grasp what Daydream is capable of - particularly if you're a gamer.

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