Samsung last week began fulfilling orders for its Oculus-power Gear VR headset, giving U.S. consumers their first taste of Oculus VR’s brand of virtual reality. International preorders have opened and have been expanding. It won’t be until early next year that Oculus VR begins shipping its full-featured Oculus Rift headset, but as a Gear VR collaborator, it has been touting Samsung’s mobile-driven headset. Like Google’s Project Cardboard, the $99 Gear VR relies on the processing power of a smartphone.
For some reason technology companies seem to think people are obsessed with 3D and virtual reality experiences? Maybe because they have little else to focus on improving and are desperate to create a new market. We have seen Halolens from Microsoft too which touts great things in 3D development but demo's a cheesy game environment where monsters jump out from walls. In the end this is more gimmicky and cheesy then actually useful and well developed for practical uses. Its kind of like Google Glasses which were supposed to be the envy of every techy person who wants any kind of tech. Apparently everyone is obsessed with buying anything tech. I think most people now realize just because you can build a device, does not mean it has useful purposes. The Apple Watch also seems too redundant and makes a few more bucks for Apple. But does little for a end user. I guess, if your that lazy you can't use your smartphone.Then why buy a watch to monitor your walking steps per day? The VR's marketing is simply to sell more phones, make some bucks off techy addiction syndrome and eventually move on to another worthless piece of tech that will end up on the list of why did they build that list.
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Is This VR’s Mainstream Moment?
Posted by: Quinten Plummer November 24, 2015 05:00 AMSamsung last week began fulfilling orders for its Oculus-power Gear VR headset, giving U.S. consumers their first taste of Oculus VR’s brand of virtual reality. International preorders have opened and have been expanding. It won’t be until early next year that Oculus VR begins shipping its full-featured Oculus Rift headset, but as a Gear VR collaborator, it has been touting Samsung’s mobile-driven headset. Like Google’s Project Cardboard, the $99 Gear VR relies on the processing power of a smartphone.