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Happy to answer any questions people have on the kit, our product page seems to be hiding the description so here are some more details.

We did the math and it costs over $45 to order all those bits and pieces Google suggested, and that doesn't even include shipping from 4 different vendors.

We are gathering all the pieces you will need to assemble your own Google cardboard VR goggle (minus the smartphone). We precut the cardboard and you should be able to assemble all the pieces in under 5 minutes. Easy Peezy. Get cracking and place your order.

Here is what comes in your kit.. - Precut cardboard - Lenses - Magnet - Velcro - Rubberband - upgrade for optional NFC tag (not included in base kit)

estimated delivery 4-6 weeks

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As it stands right now, it seems to be highly misleading. If I hadn't read your comment I could be misled to believe that you are selling the 'Official' version for the following reasons:

1- Using Google's own images.

2- Nothing indicating that it isn't official.

It is at worse maliciously misleading, at best misguided. You should correct that.

All of that copy in my comment is suppose to be displayed on the product page but Shopify seems to be broken at the moment. We are not trying to mislead anyone.

Google released all the drawings and is encouraging people to build these, we just want to help make that easier.

Will it be identical to the one from Google? I don't want to buy it blindly.

dwild, we will cut exactly from the same patterns Google provided. All parts will be equal or better in quality.

Also just added unofficial to the title of the post to avoid any confusion.

Wow, really glad I read the comments before I put in my credit card info. Four to six weeks, you must be out of your mind. If you don't get that one the site fast you're going to have a whole lot of angry people on your hands.

working on that, I think we should be able to deliver faster I just don't want to dissapoint anyone.

If you don't deliver before 4 weeks, chances are all the credit card pre-authorizations would be void anyways. With Stripe, it's even shorter.

Unless you plan on capturing the funds at order time instead of shipment time?

Thanks for the heads up on this.

Hey from where are you shipping this from ?? I mean r manufacturing ??

We have a factory in San Francisco which is where we will make and ship these kits from.

> estimated delivery 4-6 weeks

Sorry, in the age of near-immediate gratification from Amazon, up to 42 days until I see the product I paid for is a huge turn off.

Cut that down to 5-7 days and I'll have my wallet out in seconds.

I can appreciate the eagerness to get everything instantly. However I hope you can appreciate that physically cutting and shipping lots of stuff that was only announced to the world 12 hours ago takes time. I wish hardware was as easy as pushing something to Git hub but unfortunatly it is not.

You are always welcome to go order the parts and cut the cardboard yourself.

>Sorry, in the age of near-immediate gratification from Amazon, up to 42 days until I see the product I paid for is a huge turn off.

If you frequently find yourself angry that you can't buy a new package Amazon-style less than 12 hours from its announcement to the general public, I would suggest you seek professional help as you might be able to improve your impulse control.

"a huge turn off" != "find yourself angry"

I agree the parent's attitude is a bit silly, but you are putting words in their mouth.

What lenses are you using? That seems like the crux of the matter.

Right I can't seem to be able to order the NFC tag variant:

Cannot find variant (request_id: e6778ba4-1faa-41fa-96da-f666ee6c2073)

sorry we were just messing around with trying to fix the product description thing. Try going back to product page and adding to cart again and it should work.

Thanks, ordered.

Will there be a tablet version as well (Nexus 7 2013)?

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