99mac trying Gear VR – 99mac

99mac founded the first acquaintance with Samsung’s glasses for # virtual reality, Gear VR, in Barcelona at the exhibition MWC early this year. Now the electronics giant released Gear VR to consumers in the first version that fits together with the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge and S6 Edge Plus and a probe has landed on the editorial board.

Virtual reality is an exciting area when it holds the promise of taking us to exciting places, but we physically need to travel somewhere. The technology is advancing rapidly, although so far we are constrained to have on us various forms of large glasses or headsets.

# Samsung has developed Gear VR along with Oculus, the company is also working on its own VR headset and now owned by Facebook. They resemble a pair of bulky goggles that you attach to your mobile front. For this you need to add a pair of headphones to really sink into the experience.

While you are looking for entertainment in your own little bubble, you will at the same time entertainment for any people around you that, at least initially, will laugh and take pictures or film you.

Will this become a common sight among travelers?

To use Gear VR, we need to get some content to experience. We have borrowed a Galaxy S6 Edge Plus along with the glasses, and it is to that which we can download material from Oculus E-Store. It is found 360-degree video, 3D movie trailers, movies, games, and educational apps.

How does it work then?

A real favorite here in the editorial are the IOS game Monument Valley of ustwo. They also stand behind the VR-titled Land’s End just Gear VR which obviously was my first stop in Oculus store.

Here the player experience the world as ustwo built up instead of seeing from above as in Monument Valley. I wander around in by looking at the different items and solve puzzles to take me on. With music in the ears, it is easy to disappear into Land’s End, and slightly nauseous I do not know of.

However, only the center of the visual field that is perceived as thoroughly sharp and screen pixels is visible, which means that it does not feel like I was really there. Another challenge for this type of experience is that it is the plot where my body should be if I look down.

In addition to game as Land’s End and Esper (another cozy crafting games from Coatsink) there are other experiences, among other things, you can check out fish under the water or experiencing photographs. Found a collection of beautiful pictures of sunsets I could look around. Again, it just pixligheten that makes everything still retains a degree of unreality.

Promising for the future of entertainment

Gear VR is currently sold by Samsung and Telia for about 1500 crowns. If I used a Samsung phone everyday, I had absolutely been considering a purchase, but instead I hope Gear VR is just the first of many similar products in the future and that iOS users also get an option next year. There is so much potential in virtual reality.

I think Gear VR is an affordable purchase considering how much content is on offer and how comfortable it is to wear. This can hardly be compared with cheap Cardboard that I tested earlier.