Virtual reality at your fingertips. New, cheaper model of the Samsung Gear VR – Gazeta.pl

Another version of the helmet Gear VR used to interact with augmented reality, will cost only $ 99.

The new model is also compatible with smartphones Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge Plus and Note 5, it will be about half the price of currently known version of the device.

Samsung ensures that the new device is 22% lighter and easier to handle. As explained Tech Insider Korean giant depend on that to virtual reality was available to everyone.

Not only Samsung

Over the facilities for to interact with the virtual reality work did others. At this year’s IFA, we saw one of the most impressive solutions of this type – HTC Vive.

This virtual reality goggles. What is it exactly? In the simplest of terms – thanks to her move to a completely different world. What? It depends only on us. This may be the Wild West, the surface of Mars, Paradise Island or New York 20s of the last century – it all depends on what you run the application.

To Vive work properly you need a more powerful computer and set a minimum of two lasers placed in the corners of the room. It is thanks to him and approx. 70 sensors Vive set VR “know” where we are in space. If we approach too close to the wall, then the screen will show us the horizontal lines. A real wall is about 5 cm behind them, so there is virtually no possibility of a collision. Now you can start to move around the game world, to approach the objects that interest us, jump over obstacles, dodge missiles, etc.