“VR cinema is a new way of presenting our movies, and has the opportunity to bring in mass market consumers to virtual reality”, Mike Dunn, president of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, said in a statement taken from Fast Company.
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In a recent announcement, Samsung revealed that it has teamed up with Oculus for the company’s next-generation Gear VR virtual reality headset.
Also announced was the company’s Oculus Touch system, created to provide precise tactile feedback to wearers to further immerse the user in their virtual environment.
The new Gear VR headset brought out in collaboration with Oculus is 22 percent lighter than its previous headset, the Gear VR Innovative edition. Samsung only mentioned that it will hit stores sometime this year and with a retail price of $99.
Also: I was about five minutes away from finishing an episode of Don’t Trust the B– in Apartment 23 before the finicky Gear VR overheated and needed to cool down.
According to a report by Fast Company, Fox announced the partnership during the annual Oculus’ developers conference, Oculus Connect, in Hollywood.
Setting up this version of Netflix isn’t too bad, provided you have one of the Gear VR Innovator Editions that Samsung has been selling for the last several months and a compatible Samsung phone. It’s a more intimate, human interaction.
“So with hand presence there is a real social element that comes in”. Since the majority of TV shows and movies out there were not filmed with special 3D equipment, it has been an open question how devices like the Oculus Rift will handle the issue that the large majority of streamable video content is not optimized for 3D viewing.
In terms of its core specifications, however, Sony’s device is strikingly similar to that of Oculus’ Rift.
Luckey, a self-proclaimed “virtual reality nut”, said he tries every app for the Gear and Rift and offers feedback on a lot of them.
Oculus will eventually have to compete against the Starbreeze Studio designed StarVR, a device that received rave reviews at this past E3.
005930) has partnered with Oculus for its upcoming Gear VR headset, which will cost exactly $99. It will hinder our ability to daydream, imagine, and display creativity, more significantly perhaps than any other technology ever has.
This is exactly the move the headset needs to creep closer to the mainstream.
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There will be potential applications in many industries, from travel to health to business tu marketing, but as Mark Zuckerberg himself warned, virtual reality tech is going to grow slowly.
