I write this section after having played with the Gear VR for the last couple of days and the resulting enthusiastic youtube exploration of all things Oculus over the past 2 years. I will note that this is my first VR experience, however, I held off until now not because of lack of opportunity, but rather I wanted to only try VR when a company decided it was finally consumer ready, like the Gear VR is now. I ordered my Gear VR for use with my Galaxy S6 earlier this week and am honestly blown away by it. To me, it is particularly interesting in that the Gear project is the element of Oculus that John Carmack has essentially taken under his wing as his baby, and where he does most of his playing around. It's been out for a while but has been sold out everywhere until recently, at least that I have noticed.įor those unaware, the Gear VR is the low price entry into VR co-developed by Oculus and Samsung - it works by plugging in your Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 Edge, S6 Edge+ or Note 5. Here in AUS you can get it direct from Samsung's website for $158 w/ free express shipping - in the US it retails for $99. So the Samsung/Oculus Gear VR consumer edition is finally relatively widely available. The Consumer Edition Gear VR Image from Digial Trends - one of the only ones I've found with the new headstrap in the shot Background
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