We think that an open source model-with additional contributions from us-is the best way for developers to continue to build experiences for Cardboard. However, in a blog post, Jeffrey Chen, Product Manager, AR & VR wrote: Google is no longer actively developing the Google VR SDK. It made the Google VR SDK open source for developers, despite the company not working on the project itself anymore. Google announced an open source project for its low-cost cardboard VR viewer on Thursday.