The best Google Cardboard apps

Cheap smartphone viewer boasts a big collection of free and inexpensive VR titles and apps

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Google's Cardboard virtual reality platform has the most accessible VR experiences out there, with the optical viewers not only cheap to buy, but supported by a huge catalogue of virtual experiences, many of them free to download.

There's a dedicated Cardboard app itself, complete with a handful of beginner experiences, but here are five apps the critics have picked out for the Cardboard, all of them great for getting started with:

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