Goblin VR Folds Flat, Fits In Your Pocket

Amongst the many mobile VR headsets available in the wild today is a new "Goblin VR" headset, built to Google Cardboard Standard 2.0 and able to fold flat to fit in your pocket. It's simple. It's light. It's made of materials you will feel slightly less silly wearing on your face. It'll work with your iPhone and your Android as well, for devices with displays up to 6-inches diagonally – so your phablets can come to play.Speck Pocket VR viewer case (a case and a VR headset)

While we've seen our fair share of similar projects before, this "Goblin VR" project strikes our interest. They seem like they know what they're doing! Not only does it appear to take into account the simple ins and outs of feeling foolish while wearing a VR headset, it looks like they've made the headset comfortable, too.

• Built to Google Cardboard Standard 2.0

• Dimensions folded flat: 76mm (h) x 148mm (w) x 15.5mm (d)

• Dimensions open: 76mm (h) x 157mm (w) x 85mm (d)

• Lightweight, at less than 100g

• 1.5mm, malleable, neoprene tunnel prevents light bleed

• Superior optics via 2x 35mm, aspherical, biconvex lenses

• Conductive input button

• Fixings for detachable head-strap

This headset doesn't do anything particularly different from some of its competitors, but the final setup looks complete. It looks like this Goblin team have created a VR headset that is unobtrusive, looks good, and can work with a wide variety of smartphones.

That's what we like to hear.

You can learn more about Goblin VR over at their Goblin VR homepage. We look forward to more companies making this sort of effort – one that'll make virtual reality (even in the simplest of terms) available to the largest amount of people as quick as possible.