Google has released a new app for Cardboard that stitches together 3D panoramas so users can create their own virtual reality experiences. The new Cardboard Camera app for Android turns the smartphone in your pocket into a virtual reality (VR) camera.

All you have to do is hold out your phone and move it around you in a circle. Later, when you place your phone inside a Google Cardboard viewer, you'll get a VR photo.

VR photos are three-dimensional panoramas, with slightly different views for each eye, so near things look near and far things look far. You can look around to explore the image in all directions, and even record sound with your photo to hear the moment exactly as it happened.

Cardboard Camera is available today on Google Play in 17 languages. It will likely be available for iOS in the coming weeks.