Customer Ratings & Reviews

My boys aged 9 & 11 have been wanting Virtual Reality goggles for awhile. They were very excited to give the Merge - VR Goggles a try. Set up was reality easy. My iPhone 7 fits perfectly in the glasses. Please note, the size of your phone does matter with these glasses as my husband's 7 plus is too large. You do need to download apps in order to use the goggles which was easy. We chose The Walk and Dig to try out first. Once the head straps and phone are positioned you can adjust the top buttons back and forth to focus the goggles. There are also two toggles underneath the goggles to help focus. The Walk - This is a Virtual Reality tightrope walk across two buildings. You get a 360 degree view and can also look down upon the city. The goggles are a soft foam type material that makes them relatively lightweight and comfortable on your face. The boys really enjoyed using this app. We looked at other potential apps, but many cost additional to download. We will likely purchase a few more in the future, but it is something to consider. I wish more of the educational apps were free. Dig - Dig is a building game similar to Minecraft and it utilizes the Merge Cube to play. This one was a free download from the app store. It took a little bit of time to figure out how to use the menu, but once we realized you have to use the top buttons on the goggles to do so, my boys figured it out. You can select different layouts and build or dig into you cube creation. They really enjoyed this game as well. Overall, I would say the Merge - VR Goggles are fun for older kids and my husband enjoyed it as well. I will say it was cool doing the tightrope from the safety of our kitchen. As with any 3-D type glasses, they do fatigue your eyes after prolonged use. We had our boys take turns and use them for short periods of time to lessen the effects. My youngest wears glasses and he found it harder to focus the lens while he was using them. I found the focus feature to work pretty good. I think the biggest negative so far is trying to find educational apps that are free. My son wanted to explore the ocean and human body, but all of those apps required a purchase. We also tried to download a Star Wars BB-8 game, but it said you have to scan the posters in order to play. Apparently, we do not have them so it wouldn't work. We hope to find more apps in the future for them to try.

These goggles are great for the price. Work great with my son's cube.

Great fun; really amazing and hard to describe. You have to see it to believe it.

The goggles look great and fit nicely but I wasn't able to get the app to work on my phone at all.

Purchased for my niece and she loves it. Work great with the cube

I bought these for my sister and while not exactly an amazing virtual experience they did their job.

Very comfortable. A little difficult to remove your phone.

I love this set, it’s super comfortable and reliable

My daughter loves them. Seems to be a good intro to vr goggles. Durable.

Very comfortable and nice. Totally recommend it to all.

These were Christmas gifts for my grandchildren. They were thrilled.

Merge - Vr Goggles are great fun. My phone fits in there perfectly.

This was the perfect gift for my child going away to college. The kids use and play with this in their dorms.

Very good and made well. Easy to use and comfortable to wear.

Good VR headset that's comfortable. Could use a few more apps.

I could not resist on trying these out to see how far VR has come. It should be noted right away that only newer phones are compatible, and only screen sizes 123mm to 158mm will fit in the phone slot. These VR glasses were fun to try out and took gaming to a whole new level. Fit These goggles are easy to adjust to any size using the Velcro straps. They can even be used while wearing glasses. They felt really comfortable with the soft foam, but were a little snug on the face. Setup I was confused as to why I needed to go to www.vrstart.com and sign-up, since all the games are downloaded via Google Play, but after downloading Google Cardboard, it made more sense. A compatible phone needs to be inserted in the slot, and the goggle lenses put in focus by moving them back and forth. In order to have the best viewing experience, it is important to scan the QR Reader or set the program up with the correct goggles. Testing These goggles have two input buttons on the top to interact with the VR apps. To my disappointment, my first program, The Walk VR, looked more like computer animation rather than the real-life footage it was. I also watched the upcoming Star Wars promotion and was very impresses with the quality. After testing a few programs and videos I can say that the VR gives a better viewing experience if watching computer animation, since even videos I took on my phone looked pixilated. I also tested these on the Merge Cube and I was pleased with the results. My phone was very warm after removing it from the goggles, but it did not seem to impact the battery life much. Conclusion I would recommend these VR goggles as a form of inexpensive entertainment for viewing computer animation and playing games. Since the image quality of real-life videos suffer when viewed through these goggles, I would not recommend it for this purpose.

The Merge VR goggles are very versatile and comfortable. They are very lightweight by themselves, which is important since you're slipping a phone into them. They fitted an iPhone 5S, Samsung S5 and Samsung S8 easily. One nice advantage, the phone is surrounded in foam, so when the kids drop them the phone is well protected, a condition which was unfortunately tested in my case. They seem like a nice compromise between the very expensive goggles that fit only one or two phones, and the cheaper units that are not as well constructed or protected. The price is low enough to be able to fool around with VR (and AR using the phone's camera) without feeling like you absolutely have to have a real use for VR goggles before buying them. One thing to note, although the lenses can be moved to accommodate the width of your eyes, you need to use your own glasses for correction. This wasn't a problem for me as there was plenty of room for my wire frames and the foam body molded around the frames without bending them. If you have large glasses, you might want to try fitting them first, but the goggles seem to work well with glasses.

We bought it for our son. Him and his friends love it!

They do the job well for the price. Not a lot of light seeps in and they stay secure to your head.

I bought these to use with my new iPhone X. Could not get them to work properly. I returned this item.