Coming with the final Android N release later this summer is Daydream. This is essentially the name for Google's new VR platform that will be part of Android itself.Daydream will be the home of VR content inside Android. There will be a Daydream version of the Google Play Store, and it will contain all the VR-ready apps. You'll use this in VR mode, and whenever you are in Daydream you can easily go back to the list of your VR-capable apps.
Among those you'll find Street View, YouTube, Play Movies, and Google Photos, but also many games as you'd expect. When inside Daydream, your notifications will be displayed as 3D cards.
There's a need for a certification process of sorts because phones that will be marketed as Daydream-ready have to be able to pump things up to the max when in VR mode, resulting in a latency of around 20ms (from the moment you move your head to the moment the content on the screen changes accordingly). This will be achieved by harnessing all the power of the handset's CPU and GPU, as well as a new graphics buffering system that will be used when in VR mode.
And for anyone who isn't ready to buy a new phone this fall, Google doesn't seem like it's abandoning Cardboard — it updated its iOS YouTube app to support the platform last week.
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