Google Cardboard vs Night Bloom 3D

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.

Night Bloom is a pocket fireworks show over a city that feels alive. Tap anywhere and a shell whistles up from the garden at the city's heart and blooms — peonies, willows, rings, crackles, and chrysanthemums, each with its own physics and its own sound. Every boom, whoosh, and crackle is synthesized in real time and obeys real acoustics: distant bursts arrive late, muffled, and panned to where they actually are. Slow time to one-quarter speed and the audio stretches and deepens with it. Surrounding it is a full city you can explore. Choose from ten skylines — a green garden city, New York, San Francisco, Rio, Washington DC, Paris, London, Singapore, Dubai, and Los Angeles — each procedurally built with its own landmarks, terrain, and character: supertall spires, a red suspension bridge over rolling hills, mountains with a statue above the lights, a domed capitol beneath a monument, a latticed tower, a riverside clock tower, a desert needle. Streets carry real two-way traffic. Storms pass on the horizon with branched lightning, rolling thunder, and clouds that flash from within. Above it all: a twinkling sky, a faint Milky Way, and a moon showing tonight's actual phase, hanging in its true position for your location. Watch from anywhere. Orbit the whole show, stand in the middle of the park in a wide panorama, look straight down from the sky as bursts bloom into circles below, or walk the streets in first person. Open the navigation map, tap two points, and the camera strolls the route on its own — shells launching ahead of you, free to look around the whole way. Hold a spot on the map to jump straight there. Dedicate the show. Type a name or a short message, choose the occasion — New Year, the Fourth, Diwali, a birthday, a wedding, congratulations — and watch your words bloom across the sky in glowing sparks, themed to the moment, held for a beat before they drift down like falling embers and fade. A fireworks show made for someone. Keep it and share it. Save a still of any moment, or record a clip with the full synthesized soundtrack, then send it straight from the share sheet — to Messages, your camera roll, anywhere. Make it yours. Project your own photos onto building walls and rooftops as glowing billboards. Trigger a finale at any time. Switch on the ambient city — distant traffic, night wind, a horn from a corner three blocks away, the occasional siren drifting past. Photos never leave your device. No account, no ads, no tracking — just a night sky that's different every time you open it.