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January 6, 2017

Google’s Amit Singh on what it takes to certify a phone for Daydream

by John_A

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There’s more to a phone than individual specs.

If you’re looking to make sure your next phone can handle Google Daydream, you may have a list of things to expect from a phone. Google’s documentation for Daydream is complex, but the essentials boil down to being able to handle a pair of 60fps streams and a very low latency and persistence rate. This means the phone can display VR without jittery images, without motion blur that could potentially disorient you.

Not all of these rules are set in stone, especially when it comes to things like display technology and processor architecture. With the latest batch of Daydream-ready phones, Google VR created exceptions for the Kirin processors as well as displays that appear to meet the bare minimum of what it takes for a quality Daydream experience. We sat down with Amit Singh, the VP of Business and Operations for Google VR, to learn a little more about what it takes to make a phone Daydream-Ready.

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