Hurry up under the tree: Samsung Gear VR Headset for Galaxy Note 4 goes on sale for $ 250
On the eve of the morning (evening in Moscow) Samsung announced that the Samsung Gear VR Headset will go on sale in early December - just in time for the New Year sales peak - and will cost $ 249 (or $ 199 without a bluetooth gamepad).
No need to think long over the idea for a gift to someone who already has a Galaxy Note 4
A joint development of Samsung and Oculus , this invisible hat, on the contrary, is a set of virtual reality, which consists of a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone and the helmet itself, actually a docking station with glasses, sharpened by this smartphone.
In total, with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, the total cost of the set is about 42-46 tr. (or $ 1000 in foreign prices, which is almost the same because of the dollar rate). Nevertheless, it is still cheaper Oculus Rift (50 990 p .). In addition, the Rift is still only available as a developer version.
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On the other hand, the mobile platform limits the possibilities of points compared to connecting to a computer. Therefore, although the Gear VR helmet is suitable for those who can not wait to play with virtual reality, it primarily remains an accessory for Note 4 owners.
The attentive reader might have noticed that there is no image of the bluetooth gamepad in the photo, which will be distinguished by versions for $ 199 and $ 249 - Samsung has not shown it yet.
Headphones-separately (photo Gizmodo )
Samsung has been working on this project with Oculus for about a year. Gear VR users will have access to an Oculus Home application and content store, and Mobile SDK v0.4.0 , designed to develop virtual reality applications on Note 4, has already been released for developers.
Shop virtual entertainment Oculus Home
A virtual tour of Tony Stark's lab (developed in partnership with Marvel, which is currently promoting the Avengers: "The Age of Ultron") will be available as marketing clips with Gear VR via Oculus Home. IMAX offers a set of trailers and scenes from movies for viewing in a virtual format, and 360-degree video representations of Cirque du Soleil, and Vevo - access to recordings of more than one hundred thousand clips and concerts.
Gear VR features are:
At Kickstarter, they collect money for a similar helmet-glasses for iOS :
- no, it's not a joke .
Google Cardboard Cardboard Glasses (this is also not a joke) are already on sale :
Points n-nada?
No need to think long over the idea for a gift to someone who already has a Galaxy Note 4
A joint development of Samsung and Oculus , this invisible hat, on the contrary, is a set of virtual reality, which consists of a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone and the helmet itself, actually a docking station with glasses, sharpened by this smartphone.
In total, with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, the total cost of the set is about 42-46 tr. (or $ 1000 in foreign prices, which is almost the same because of the dollar rate). Nevertheless, it is still cheaper Oculus Rift (50 990 p .). In addition, the Rift is still only available as a developer version.
')
On the other hand, the mobile platform limits the possibilities of points compared to connecting to a computer. Therefore, although the Gear VR helmet is suitable for those who can not wait to play with virtual reality, it primarily remains an accessory for Note 4 owners.
The attentive reader might have noticed that there is no image of the bluetooth gamepad in the photo, which will be distinguished by versions for $ 199 and $ 249 - Samsung has not shown it yet.
Headphones-separately (photo Gizmodo )
Samsung has been working on this project with Oculus for about a year. Gear VR users will have access to an Oculus Home application and content store, and Mobile SDK v0.4.0 , designed to develop virtual reality applications on Note 4, has already been released for developers.
Shop virtual entertainment Oculus Home
A virtual tour of Tony Stark's lab (developed in partnership with Marvel, which is currently promoting the Avengers: "The Age of Ultron") will be available as marketing clips with Gear VR via Oculus Home. IMAX offers a set of trailers and scenes from movies for viewing in a virtual format, and 360-degree video representations of Cirque du Soleil, and Vevo - access to recordings of more than one hundred thousand clips and concerts.
Gear VR features are:
- Viewing angle 96˚
- Accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity sensor, magnetic field sensor
- Case for myopic / farsighted eyes
- Adjustment of interpupillary distance: 55 ~ 71 mm
- Touchpad, back button, volume button
- MicroUSB 1.1 connection with Galaxy Note 4
- MicroSD support
- 198 x 116 x 90 mm
What else?
At Kickstarter, they collect money for a similar helmet-glasses for iOS :
- no, it's not a joke .
Google Cardboard Cardboard Glasses (this is also not a joke) are already on sale :
Points n-nada?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/362921/
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