A good introduction to the Google Cardboard World

What fascinates me about this smartphone in hindsight, the good support for Google Cardboard for which I provide here's a checklist for those interested is I start with the problems and work my way through to the pleasant surprises.

NFC chip:
If a smartphone is inserted in a Cardboard glasses, a wireless chip in the glasses can inform about the smartphone and the smartphone will automatically start Cardboard App. Since the Moto G 2 does not contain a NFC module, you have to launch the app manually before loading. Thus, one should be able to live.

Magnetometer:
Since screen and buttons are blocked after inserting, the user Cardboard controls only about his head movements and a pair of magnets on the left side of each Cardboard glasses. A magnetometer (otherwise the phone used as a compass), the displacement of the two magnets remarked to each other - one is glued, the other freely - and registered it as an input.
The Moto G 2 includes a magnetometer, however, the only smartphone that I do not know at the head - left in the Carbboard glasses - but the bottom or right. Therefore, the magnet must be moved from left to right. In a cardboard glasses that happened quickly. Fixed with a piece of tape to the inner magnet right in Cardboard package, the second magnet keeps the outside of itself. In finished plastic card boards, this can not go so easy. I recommend once a simple and inexpensive cardboard Cardboard try.

Compatibility with popular Cardboard glasses:
The Moto G 2 fits perfectly in the Pappvorrichtungen, such as it has been around from under 5 Euro incl. Shipping here at Amazon. Execution in size M is recommended.

Screen and image quality:
The resolution of the screen is indeed smaller than in more expensive competitors but the pixel density is acceptable. Through the magnifying effect of the lenses individual pixels become visible, they can be but hide well when you focus on the image in its entirety. I also compared the Oculus Rift DK2 tried and while the field of view is greater in the Oculus, the image quality does not seem to be much worse in front of the eye at the Moto G 2.

Position sensor / gyroscope:
I am at all interested in Google Cardboard on the Moto G 2 so that I realized that a real gyroscope was installed began. This basic requirement for Cardboard runs in the Moto G 2 without much problem. Some delay is to be expected with movements always, but the gyroscope seems to blame because less wear than the limited processing power of the Moto G 2 hardware.

Power:
As mentioned not playing the Moto in the top league which 2D and 3D performance is concerned. The Cardboard demos, it was Google Earth, Windy Day or even a roller coaster simulation run smoothly (if 60 FPS or 30 FPS I really can not say), but with some delays can be expected.

All in all, the Moto G 2 probably one of the best smartphones with almost complete Cardboard support. As someone who had almost ever ordered an Oculus Rift, just to see how the new form of virtual reality in recent years actually looks now, I'm glad to have it not done. The Moto G 2 gives you a feel for what will probably still be possible soon, or what is already possible with Cardbaord.