Samsung is pushing its Gear VR headset pretty heavily these days, giving it away to early adopters of the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, and everyone else, like HTC or LG, hopes you will get on the virtual reality bandwagon soon enough.
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Samsung also wants to solve the problem of motion sickness with this new technology, according to Engadget. Samsung will unveil Hum On, an app that transcribes your hummed melodies into musical scores, Waffle, another Social media app that provides a platform for collaborative content creation and the third app is Entrim 4D, a Virtual reality (VR) accessory that will make users feel the ongoing movements of the on- screen actions.
As if to aleviate these concerns, Samsung came up with a few proof of concept ideas from its C-Lab shop to present at the SXSW tech expo, and one of them is a new Entrim 4D VR headset.
Using a safe technique that sends electrical signals to the vestibular system in the ear, Entrim 4D synchronizes the body’s balance system with the changing movements in the VR videos.
The Final app by Samsung is Entrim 4D, Which is an experimental project related to increasing the experiences of VR. Entrim 4D team is also working on an improved version that will use additional electrodes for creating a sense of rotational motion.
There are plenty of apps that can recognize music recordings or even snippets of sounds from TV and movie shows to let you know what you’re listening to. The first is called Hum On!, where you hum a tune that’s then converted over to musical notes, and played back in a variety of musical styles.
Of the three projects that Samsung was showing off today, this was the most confusing.
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The other app is Waffle, a social storytelling app where multiple people can share messages, images, and doodled pictures to a single channel. A beta of the Waffle app is already in the Google Play Store, but there was no word on when Hum On would be out. As you can see in the video below, the app’s main UI resembles the grid of a waffle. Using this app, you can post a photo that can be annotated by your friends’ photos or drawings added in a grid surrounding the original. Samsung likens the experience to many different users all contributing to a common graffiti wall.
