Years after Alphabet’s Google first entered the augmented reality space with Google Glass, the company is predictably prepping a new mobile-based platform release for VR that it hopes will become as prominent in the VR space as Android has become in the mobile space. Google has been investing in research and development in the nascent VR space for over a year now. It launched a low cost cardboard headset to bring VR and 360-degree video the masses last year. YouTube already supports 360-degree video uploads, and has amassed a large library of user-generated and premium 360-degree video that anyone can watch using a Google Cardboard headset. Google’s latest project is something of a mobile VR operating system called Daydream that…