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having plenty of experience with oculus development kit 1 and recently acquiring

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the development kit 2 i was quite excited to get some hands-on time with samsung's gear vr outside of the gear vr

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unit we have a focus wheel on top allowing you to easily change focal distance on the fly a touch pad and back

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button on the side which will serve as your built-in navigation tools a mounting plate in front which will allow

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you to mount your note 4 device which will hopefully support more devices in the future and a speaker in the back

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which i personally didn't really get to experience due to loud expo hall but is

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probably okay but due to it being a phone it does offer bluetooth

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functionality so you'll be able to connect a controller or in this case a

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bluetooth headset to augment that functionality another thing to note is

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that there are absolutely no cables attached to the unit which is fantastic

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as you can now freely spin around in your chair without worrying about any cable snaps this is especially nice for

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situations where the scene is playing out all around you instead of just in

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front of you this freedom while great does not come without a cost however

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you're now intimately tied to the note 4's 32 20 million power battery it's 2.7

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gigahertz quad-core snapdragon 805 processor and three gigabytes of RAM

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which will result in a limited duration of single session usage and a limited on

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the device's performance for instance i don't expect you to be able to play elite dangerous or star citizen on this

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thing but to give it credit you'll hopefully be able to play games like portal half-life and gta on it soon

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along with the opportunity for samsung to partner with valve on a game

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streaming app and while there's no information about that whatsoever

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anywhere i do kind of hope it happens while they weren't able to directly talk

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specs with me i doubt that apps available from oculus or samsung would

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directly lower the potential resolution of the device and we should be getting a

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similar overall experience in terms of low persistence to the oculus rift

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development kit too considering that the oculus development team is making the

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sdk for gear vr as well this bodes quite well for gear vr as the note 4 offers

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its monstrous 2560 by 1440p display

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which while i have very limited experience with it looks fantastic well

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that's about it i hope we get one of these for the office so i can try it out

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more extensively and let me know in the comments down below what you guys think

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about this kind of nicer audio voiceover style show coverage thanks for watching

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