

However, with Google announcing in December that more than 500,000 Cardboard units have been shipped, we can make a reasonable guess that the majority of downloads are from actual users. Of course, some portion of users downloading the app may have done it out of curiosity and without actually having their hands on the Cardboard headset. To my knowledge, this makes it the single most downloaded piece of VR software ever. Actually, it’s now somewhere between 1 million and 5 million downloads, which is as specific as the app page will display. The Cardboard app on Android’s Play Store has exceeded 1 million downloads. Although started as a hobby-level project, the platform seems to have grown beyond their expectations.

Google surprised the VR community when it revealed Cardboard, a super low-cost VR smartphone adapter, last year at the company’s annual developer conference.
