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having plenty of experience with oculus development kit 1 and recently acquiring
the development kit 2 i was quite excited to get some hands-on time with samsung's gear vr outside of the gear vr
unit we have a focus wheel on top allowing you to easily change focal distance on the fly a touch pad and back
button on the side which will serve as your built-in navigation tools a mounting plate in front which will allow
you to mount your note 4 device which will hopefully support more devices in the future and a speaker in the back
which i personally didn't really get to experience due to loud expo hall but is
probably okay but due to it being a phone it does offer bluetooth
functionality so you'll be able to connect a controller or in this case a
bluetooth headset to augment that functionality another thing to note is
that there are absolutely no cables attached to the unit which is fantastic
as you can now freely spin around in your chair without worrying about any cable snaps this is especially nice for
situations where the scene is playing out all around you instead of just in
front of you this freedom while great does not come without a cost however
you're now intimately tied to the note 4's 32 20 million power battery it's 2.7
gigahertz quad-core snapdragon 805 processor and three gigabytes of RAM
which will result in a limited duration of single session usage and a limited on
the device's performance for instance i don't expect you to be able to play elite dangerous or star citizen on this
thing but to give it credit you'll hopefully be able to play games like portal half-life and gta on it soon
along with the opportunity for samsung to partner with valve on a game
streaming app and while there's no information about that whatsoever
anywhere i do kind of hope it happens while they weren't able to directly talk
specs with me i doubt that apps available from oculus or samsung would
directly lower the potential resolution of the device and we should be getting a
similar overall experience in terms of low persistence to the oculus rift
development kit too considering that the oculus development team is making the
sdk for gear vr as well this bodes quite well for gear vr as the note 4 offers
its monstrous 2560 by 1440p display
which while i have very limited experience with it looks fantastic well
that's about it i hope we get one of these for the office so i can try it out
more extensively and let me know in the comments down below what you guys think
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