Google has today unveiled seven brand new apps that can be used with its Daydream mobile virtual reality (VR) system for devices that support Daydream. The list includes HBO and a bunch of cool new games across various genres.
HBO Now
This is by far the most important addition. The app lets you watch TV shows and movies in a setting where you are placed in a seat inside a virtual movie theater and the video, plays on a big screen in front of you.
HBO’s standalone subscription app, is identical in appearance to the HBO GO VR app which allows viewers to enjoy their favorite HBO shows and movies in a home theater virtual reality setting.
HBO NOW VR has the interface design of its desktop site. A larger font size is recommended given that text appears to be a bit more low-res when it’s one inch away from the viewers’ eyes.
Gunjack: End of Shift
Got a violent streak? Download this new app and step into the boots of a gunjack, a lone gunner and get to shoot everything that moves. All you have to do is jack into your turret, power up your guns, and defend your mining platform from deadly waves of enemy ships determined to blast you and your crew into oblivion.
Layers of Fear
This is a horror game you might enjoy playing at night, when everyone at home is asleep. It is a first-person psychedelic horror game with a heavy focus on story and exploration.
Lego Brickheadz
The game offers a new way to experience LEGO. You can design characters and create special combinations that will unlock new items and other objects that can be used in the game. The Brickheadz are fun and playful and their behaviors can be modified according to your desire.
Need For Speed
This ever green racing game is a game is something every video game lover must have played. Now that it is available on your smart phone and particularly in Virtual Reality, we bet you are hooked on to it already! Just don’t get a heart attack!
Underworld Overlord
This Otherside Entertainment game lets you become the devil’s advocate, where you command monsters to kill animated “heroes.” After all being the hero and killing the devil is too mainstream.
Wands
The Nux Studios game has wizards that can shoot stuff out of their magic wands and fight other wizards.
Other than these seven interesting apps, Google also announced that it will soon be launching Netflix on the Daydream platform. As of now the tech giant has refrained from divulging any further information on the upcoming app.
The devices that support the Daydream VR headset at present include Google’s Pixel smart phones and Lenovo’s Moto Z and Moto Z Force phones. We can expect it to grow in the future.
