There’s no doubt that what Oculus and Samsung managed to achieve with the mobile Gear VR headset is impressive, but one aspect, positional tracking, lags far behind desktop VR headsets. Oculus CTO John Carmack has affirmed his team’s focus on adding this missing piece to an otherwise excellent mobile VR package.
Not that long ago there were many that were skeptical that, in the wake of the largely (and unsurprisingly) disappointing experiences offered by Google’s unashamedly low-rent Cardboard movement, that Samsung could pull off a substantially better experience with its Samsung Galaxy Note 4 powered mobile VR headset, the Gear VR. However, the combination of Oculus’ VR engineering prowess and Samsung’s proven industrial design expertise produced a so-called ‘Innovator Edition’ Gear VR that really did deliver a compelling VR experience.
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