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DIY: Make your own cheap (and delicious) edible VR headset

Jan. 19, 2017

Using the Google Cardboard headset as a template, you can put your technical and culinary skills to the test by building your own edible VR headset.

Name three things you can make using graham crackers. Pie crust? S'mores? I bet you didn’t guess virtual reality headset. That’s right. Using the Google Cardboard headset as a template, you can put your technical and culinary skills to the test by building your own edible VR headset.

According to Mike Pomranz for Food and Wine: "The folks over at Make: decided to find a solution to a problem that didn’t exist by building an edible virtual reality viewer. Following the simple format the Google Cardboard headset – which as it promises, is made from not much more than cardboard – Make:’s Caleb Kraft replicated that cardboard in graham cracker form and used icing as adhesive to create a viewer that not only worked, but was almost completely edible with the exception of the all-important lenses.

For the record, Kraft gave considerable consideration to making edible lenses. 'I was going to order…lenses and make a mold, then experiment with sugar glass and gelatin to get an edible lens,' he wrote. 'I’m still fairly certain I could get something that would technically work, though it would be cruddy. However, I just didn’t have the time.'"

About the Author

Alexis Gajewski | Senior Content Strategist

Alexis Gajewski has over 15 years of experience in the maintenance, reliability, operations, and manufacturing space. She joined Plant Services in 2008 and works to bring readers the news, insight, and information they need to make the right decisions for their plants. Alexis also authors “The Lighter Side of Manufacturing,” a blog that highlights the fun and innovative advances in the industrial sector. 

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