Samsung techbeurs presented at IFA in Berlin, one of the most interesting smartphone accessories we saw at times. The Gear VR is a virtual reality glasses that allows you to be immersed in a virtual 3D reality.
Note the Galaxy 4 Previously, we tried that once the developer version of the Oculus Rift, an impressive device that also presents 3D images, and makes it possible to use head movements to look like you’re actually in a whole other world is around.
The Oculus Rift is specifically designed for gamers, but Samsung has the Gear VR – who in cooperation with Oculus developed – bigger plans. Samsung also sees the device as a possibility for watching movies, concerts or football games to a whole other level lift.
During two test sessions, I could Gear VR use to view, a circus and a trailer different DreamWorks animated films.
Comfortable
The use of VR Gear is easy. The Note 4 is pushed behind a flap in the glasses and then activate via NFC special application with virtual reality demos.
The seat is surprisingly comfortable on the head. There is a soft material on the edges that the device does feel than the first developer version of the Oculus Rift a lot better. I could only briefly with the glasses to work, but I can imagine it must be to spend a few hours with the Gear VR gaming. Perfectly possible too
The question is whether you stomach it for so long. The infamous rollercoaster demo of Oculus Rift has already made many test user nauseous. The demos Samsung showed the VR Gear at IFA were all static: for example, I saw one fixed position a circus.
It was possible to look around, but not to the circus to move around. The same was true for the DreamWorks demo: the virtual reality I saw a large screen on which a trailer was shown. Furthermore, look around showed a big starry to screen it.
The demos were certainly impressive, and I can especially for concerts and other live events suggest that it would be to be able to virtually present very cool be.
The DreamWorks demo was to be less shocking, because you still was watching. Towards a virtual screen However, it is cool that it looks virtually like looking at a huge screen, while in reality a smartphone a few inches hanging before your eyes.
Technology
Technically the Gear VR impressive. The glasses contain proprietary hardware that add extra graphics power to the hardware of the Galaxy Note 4 There are also sensors present that very accurately and quickly track how you move your head.
It’s extra cool that all this without that you are stuck on a thread. The Oculus Rift has a hdmi cable to receive images and to provide the device. Power The Gear VR using the battery of Note 4 and thus makes it possible to make out. Reality anywhere in the home or on the road a detour It is unclear how long the battery will go in using the VR Gear with.
The Gear VR is clearly not perfect. The Note 4 may well have a qHD screen with a resolution of 2560 by 1440 pixels, but because the eyes of the Gear VR user so close to the screen down, the picture quality is still not great.
Every eye will see half of the screen, so a resolution of “only” 1280 by 1440 pixels. Though a qHD display for a smartphone is more than enough, it appears that in the virtual reality improvements to be achieved with even higher resolutions.
When was the wearer Gear VR for me slightly out of focus. There is a knob on top which should make it to focus manually as possible, but who could not make my limited myopia (-1.5 Strength) action.
Potency
The sales potential the Gear VR seems very limited. The glasses will only work with the Galaxy Note 4, a phone that already carries a suggested retail price of 799 euros. In addition, the VR Gear still needs to be purchased for 199 euros or 249 euros with no gamepad gamepad.
Nevertheless, says Jean-Daniel Ayme, vice president of Samsung Mobile Europe that the VR Gear is not simply intended to the technical ability to demonstrate. his company He says that Samsung continues to work closely with Oculus to make the device whenever possible. Available content
He would not say whether also collaborated on a possible successor to the Gear VR. It seems to me the current version mainly a trial balloon.
If the Samsung in the future succeed in a Gear VR 2 with different devices to work and a large amount of games, movies and other media to make available a whole new product category may just be tapped.
The virtual reality glasses of the future
By: NU.nl/Jeroen Crane
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