The Oculus Avatars, and other features to a lesser extent, take advantage of Samsung’s new Gear VR controller ... The browser appears as a big curved screen with text that’s very readable ...

Samsung today announced ... 2,280 × 1,080 display. Because Gear VR was originally designed for phones with a 16:9 aspect ratio, some of the extra screen width on newer Galaxy phones like the ...

Samsung Gear VR was the company's previous attempt ... offer a pixel density of “just” 570 and 529 ppi. A big advantage of a screen like this is that it helps with the nausea and dizziness ...

The hardware on Gear VR is all Samsung (Oculus just provides software) so it’s not a perfect parallel, but expect big leaps in screen quality if nothing else. 518ppi is absurd for a phone ...

Samsung Gear VR $99.99, www.samsung.com Pros ... is available in Gear VR—I watched Lawrence of Arabia on a big virtual screen as I sat inside a grand virtual cinema. When the film started ...

Samsung never made any pretensions that the Gear VR would be small and portable -- it's always been a rather large headset that looks like you have a giant pair of ski goggles strapped on your face.

Previously, you accessed the Home screen ... The big question mark is Google's Daydream headset platform, which is expected to launch this fall. For now, the Samsung Gear VR remains the undisputed ...

The Gear VR isn't nearly as powerful as its PC-based sibling, the Oculus Rift, but the Gear has one big advantage in being ... Gunjack are prime examples). Samsung solved most of the tech issues ...

The big news though is that when Gear VR 2015 ships in November (pre-Black Friday, says Peter Koo) it’ll be compatible with all of Samsung’s flagship 2015 phones—the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge ...

It’s a common story in technology. Hardware always develops faster than the content enjoyed on it. Ultra-high definition (better known as 4K) televisions fought the problem, and virtual reality ...