Hands-on review: Google Daydream View

Google Daydream View is the exciting new virtual reality headset for everyone else on Android who hasn't bought a new Samsung smartphone and the Samsung Gear VR.

Yes, it's another mobile-based VR headset, but this one is poised to work with more Android phones in the future, starting next month with the brand new Google Pixel and Pixel XL.

Daydream View is also going to be less expensive than the Samsung Gear VR. It's Google's Chromecast-like bid for virtual reality: beating everyone else on price, and going to get way more consumers hooked due to its ridiculously low price. Brilliant.

It's still early days for Daydream VR platform, based on what we experience tested at the Google Pixel launch event. There's a lot of potential, even if it feels like a fabric-lined Samsung Gear VR cloned.

This is a flash hands on review, one that we'll be updating to a full hands on review now that the today's Google keynote has ended. Join us in an hour for more photos and additional impressions for our take on the Google Daydream View VR headset.