Google Cardboard vs Hyperspace AR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Google Cardboard
Experience virtual reality on your iPhone. This app guides you through setting up a compatible viewer and offers initial immersive experiences to explore.
- VR viewer setup
- Introductory VR experiences
- iPhone compatibility
- Cardboard viewer integration
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Cardboard puts virtual reality on your iPhone. The Google Cardboard app helps you set up a Cardboard viewer and includes a few experiences to get you started. To fully enjoy this app you'll need a Cardboard viewer. Learn more and get your own Cardboard viewer at http://g.co/cardboard. Do not use this app while driving, walking, or otherwise by being distracted or disoriented from real world situations that prevent you from obeying traffic or safety laws.
Hyperspace AR
Create a unique augmented reality art exhibition in your own space using 3D AR sculptures. Scan your environment and draw with a variety of tools that sample your surroundings' colors. Film and share your digital art installations.
- Site-specific AR sculpture creation
- LiDAR scanning for environment mapping
- 3D drawing tools
- Color sampling from environment
- Record and share creations
- AR art exhibition
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Hyperspace AR is a LiDAR augmented reality art experiment by Universal Everything. Create a site-specific exhibition of AR sculptures in your own space. Scan your space, then draw on the screen to create 3D AR sculptures. Your toolkit includes flowers, crystals, spikes and threads, which also sample the colours of your environment. Film and share your creation using #HyperspaceAR. This AR experiment has been designed using the LiDAR camera and will therefore only function on the iPhone 12 Pro and iPad Pro 2019 and up.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hyperspace AR at 71% against Google Cardboard's 27%. Hyperspace AR also leads on rating (3.8 vs 2.8) and iOS requirement (13.5 vs 15.0). Google Cardboard's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 43 months) and ratings volume (598 vs 11). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hyperspace AR holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cardboard has 598 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Google Cardboard's written reviews are positive against 71% of Hyperspace AR's.
Google Cardboard ships an update every 3 months, Hyperspace AR every 43 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cardboard | Hyperspace AR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (598 ratings) | 3.8 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.6% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 598 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 43 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Universal Everything Ltd | |
Customer experience
Google Cardboard
Hyperspace AR
Bugs and requests
Google Cardboard
Reported bugs
3 issues- Constant spinning/shaking on some devices
- Crashes and freezes on launch
- Incompatibility with certain VR headsets
Requested features
4 requests- More VR games and interactive experiences
- Ability to view own photos/videos in VR
- Support for newer iOS versions
- Improved navigation and controls
Hyperspace AR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cardboard
No in-app purchases
Hyperspace AR
No in-app purchases
Questions
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