While focused in some meetings yesterday, I got a Slack message from our ex. director George Siemens asking what I knew about Google Daydream. I got online and saw various news sources exploding with references to Daydream. It’s an interesting approach to VR – Daydream is more about making sure hardware (especially phones) and software are ready for Virtual Reality. Or maybe think of it as a VR ecosystem with Google as the center of many devices. Sounds familiar, or course. Connecting to Google could mean interesting things for tools like Google Maps, Google Earth, and YouTube. This article looks at the general idea, as well as how YouTube already has a VR mode that other apps could copy. I think the basic idea is that you start experiencing your phone as VR (hopefully not while walking). The cool thing is that Google can sometimes do cool things and this has promise, but then again Google has a bad track record of letting things die… and the fact that they are everywhere is creepy at times (what will Daydream mean for data, privacy, etc).