That "headmount thing they slide the phone into" is actually a Daydream[1], I'm pretty sure. The VR 180 "product" (that you can purchase) is, as far as I know,

That "headmount thing they slide the phone into" is actually a Daydream[1], I'm pretty sure. The VR 180 "product" (that you can purchase) is, as far as I know, the cameras that are in development. However, there are a few other things that the VR 180 announcement covers: - Ingest support for VR 180 to YouTube's servers. The servers can now ingest, process, and serve VR 180 videos. - Player support for VR 180. YouTube clients now know how to handle (and play) 180-degree content. In the past you could just take a 360 equirectangular video and chop it in half and call it 180. But you couldn't upload it to YouTube and play it back, since it would try wrapping it to 360 still, and it would look wrong. So this announcement covers a few things: server support, client support, and new dedicated cameras for 180-degree content. [1]: https://vr.google.com/daydream/ https://vr.google.com/daydream/ (Edit: my comment about about the lack of content is now outdated, since the URL for this submission has now been changed to the Google blog post. The original URL was https://vr.google.com/vr180/ https://vr.google.com/vr180/)