Google Daydream was a virtual reality platform and set of hardware devices that worked with certain Android phones. Launched November 10, 2016; shut down October 15, 2019 — it lived 2 years. One of 37 Google products killed in 2019. Daydream was a virtual reality (VR) platform which was developed by Google, primarily for use with a headset into which a smartphone is inserted. It is available for select phones running the Android mobile operating system that meet the platform's software and hardware requirements. Daydream was announced at the Google I/O developer conference in May 2016, and the first headset, the Daydream View, was released on November 10, 2016. To use the platform, users place their phone into the back of a headset, run Daydream-compatible mobile apps, and view content through the viewer's lenses. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).