Wtf that ' s it ? I thought you ' d become interested in swords and go on a quest to fight dragons n shit <| sep |> Yeah , weightloss can be tough sometimes , but uncle Stanley helped me through it ! IN ALL SERIOUSNESS OP , your uncle is a badass . <| sep |> But you have to think about the size compared to the United States . All of Europe is close to the same size of the entire US , so it ' s kinda similar for me to say I prefer to be called a wisconsinite instead of american <| sep |> The state gives out shotguns now ? This is news to me . <| sep |> I am perfectly able to decide which apps are highquality enough for me , without Google being my nanny and deciding for me and preventing me from getting apps they don ' t like . You may be , but most people aren ' t when it comes to VR apps . A lot of gamers are completely unfamiliar with the special problems that can cause nausea , so they want to e . g . run first person games on older hardware . If nobody tells them about the vestibular system , they will easily get the impression that VR doesn ' t work at all instead of figuring that the app they started simply wasn ' t suitable or their phone was too slow . While everybody can decide that an app is barely usable due to a badly designed interface , nobody can really detect without extra hardware if a VR app drops frames or accelerates too fast . So some level of quality control makes a lot of sense . This can be done by excluding some titles altogether like the Oculus store for Gear VR does , or by labeling titles that can cause nausea like Sony does it for the PSVR . Google is sort of a special case here , as they introduce a rigid quality control for the initial bunch of Daydream apps currently invite only , Daydream development is supposed to become open to everyone sometime in 2017 , which they didn ' t before . But they don ' t actually stop you from developing and publishing apps that run on Daydream phones and use the Daydream f e a t u r e s c a r d b o a r d a p p sdaydreamphoneperformance , they just won ' t allow you to sell them through their dedicated Daydream section in the Play Store or label it as Daydream According to a spokesperson for Google ' s VR team , Cardboard apps updated and adapted to the recently launched Google VR SDK which combines the Daydream and Cardboard SDKs will enable the improved performance for those phones . Apps need to both compile with the 1 . 0 SDK and properly use the new APIs like VR Mode and scanline racing to see performance improvements on Daydreamready phones , the spokesperson told Road to VR . So basically you can creating Cardboard apps that technically are Daydream apps , but may not be called this without a certification . These CardboardDaydream apps can still be offered by everyone on the regular Android Play Store . Google did a similar thing with Cardboard clones , where everybody could sell them , but only those that went through a certification could carry the Works with Google Cardboard logo . And it remains to be seen if phones that fulfill all technical requirements for Daydream will be able to use Daydream features too without having being certified . So I ' m pretty sure that this is neither censorship nor the first set for Google to close the open Android ecosystem . They are just introducing certifications on several levels that guarantee a minimal quality , and this is a reaction to the currently open system creating a lot of very low quality apps and hardware , which reflects badly on the whole Android system . But they don ' t shut down the open part , you can still release a puke stimulator that will run on any Daydream phone or a crappy USD 30 phone that is barely usable . Only if you want your app to be featured as a Daydream app , it will have to live up to their standards . And for most users , this is a very good development . We don ' t want newbies to have to find out the hard way that some things just don ' t work in VR , as most will simply ignore VR if it feels uncomfortable , never getting the chance to find out there are good apps too . For those that were introduced to the sanitized Daydream world the door is still open to all the other apps that didn ' t pass certification .