Kids will soon be able to turn their Happy Meals into VR goggles in Sweden

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Fast food juggernaut McDonald's is rolling out a pilot program in Sweden that turns Happy Meal boxes into virtual reality goggles. With a few flips and folds, kids can transform the box into a smartphone holder, which provides a kinda-sorta VR experience similar to Google Cardboard.

McDonald's provides the VR game app, too. This first iteration of the marketing initiative — called Happy Goggles — is themed around the Swedish holiday known as Sportlov, in which families traditionally head out on skiing trips. McDonald's game has kids racing down a virtual ski slopes, slaloming around by way of the smartphone's internal motion detectors Read more...