No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor. As vice president of VR and AR for Google, he's a passionate advocate for the technology, with which he has been obsessed since he was a teenager. In Bavor's three years of involvement with the company's efforts in artificial realities, he has taken a populist approach, introducing accessible mobile phone-based products such as the dirt-cheap Cardboard viewer and the more recent $79 Daydream viewer.
Today, at Google's big I/O developer conference, he's announcing new moves that edge the company away from the VR dollar store—if not quite into the high-rent district.
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