Gear VR Innovator Edition for Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge Cell Phones - White

I bought a Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition for my S6 edge just to try the virtual reality. I didn't know it was going to look so real. It feels like if you were there. The games are great and you can watch any movie you have in your phone library.

I have been interested in virtual gear equipment for quite a long time and I have known Oculus Rift like two years back. To be honest, the actual effect is still not so promising (thought the 3-D view is INDEED AWESOME). The resolution is quite low and that's especially severe for 3-D videos (sometimes it becomes difficult to recognize the face detail). Also, the eye lenses are soon covered with sweat steam in less than 5 minutes and you have to take it off and remove the moisture before you can watch clearly. Overall, consider it's still a developing prototype, I hold high anticipation for the future product and I would recommend it to those who wish to experience how a real "virtual reality" feels

LOVE THIS PRODUCT BUT NEEDS MORE CONTENT VIDEO GAME WISE AND BIGGER HEAD STRAP. I have had this product since 7-4-2015 and today is 8-8-2015. I have clocked in about 50 hours in those 36 days, if I was not limited by phone needing charge or me having a family or job I am sure that number would be higher lol. In the last 36 days my XBOX ONE has been used about 20 hours " all for Netflix no gaming lol " . In the last 36 days my PS4 has been used about 10 minutes " despite just having bought gta 5 and god of war 3 for ps4 ' NOW to the review below lol. So I have to start by saying I don't think it is fair I needed to get a Samsung s6 phone to be able to use this. I loved my htc phone but I must say I will trade my htc phone 10 times over for the Samsung s6 just to be able to use the Samsung vr gear. First thing I will say is I personally think the strap should be at least 1 inch bigger on each side for people who have larger heads. Now let me say this I am 31 years old so I have tried many systems from the 90s till now. I must say personally I think this is on par with what you find in amusement parks like Disney world except you not paying $5 each time for 3 minutes lol and it is all around you in 360 mode so I thing that aspect is better. I was amazed how you really do feel like you are in those videos and the Oculus cinema is also awesome feels like you actually there. I do wish there was a option where you can turn on random people like between 10 - 60 " each time random per movie " so you don't feel so alone. Also unless you have home internet of atleast 15mbps I recommend you download all videos to avoid buffering or video looking choppy in the Milk VR. I really wish the Oculus cinema had a way to allow users to create a video library kind of like Google play does where we can buy movies download it to phones or delete them but we always have the movie owner rights in the cloud in Google. I would so rent movies for oculus cinema. The other cool thing is I wish they would let people customize the home screen home would be awesome but it is ok as it is still looks awesome. I hope they do improve the image some apps/ videos do show screen does " slightly " would be awesome if it was gone or reduced even more. I do know 1 thing since I bought this my xbox one and ps4 and my computer game sims have not been used in almost a week thanks to the Samsung vr gear lol.

Very nice VR experience with smooth video and no rotation lag. Quite impressive for this stage of the VR race, but only the beginning of what VR will eventually become. Some downsides: 1. The charger does not work when the phone is plugged into the headset, so watching a movie or using it for extended periods is not possible. 2. The lenses keep fogging up in cold weather. Putting the headset in a warm place before using it seems to help. 3. Even with the high pixel rate of the S6, pixels is still clearly visible through the lenses. However, this may be the case with all current generation VR headsets. 4. Lastly and probably the most annoying... every time you plug the phone into the headset it forces you into the Oculus app and only allows you to use the headset with that app. There are so many Google Cardboard or third party 3D content which should look awesome on the headset, but there's just no way of loading that and/or stopping the Oculus app from loading (without rooting your phone anyway) There was an app available to disable other apps from running, but Samsung decided that users should not have that and had it removed from the store. My HTC phone on the other hand has this feature built in. Android has always been an open platform where you have as much control over things as you want to have, so I don't know why Samsung is becoming more like Apple as time goes on. It is limiting the use of the headset for no apparent reason. Other than that, quite a nice first VR experience!

I have been waiting for this item to be released for quite some time. After having the Note 4 and waiting for the S6 to come out, I just knew I'd end up buying the Samsung Gear VR. After having it for about a week it has been AWESOME. I love the Oculus Cinema app (Which places you in a virtual theater) and all the apps that developers habe created. I highly suggest going on YouTube and looking up what else you can do because there's so much that you can do that most people never would of knew how to do. Overall I'm glad I purchased this and if you have a Samsung S6 or S6 Edge, I recommend you go to BestBuy to test it out and buy one yourself. This is the best accessory you can get for these phones!

If you've already dropped an investment in the Galaxy s6 (or the Edge) then this accessory will put your smartphone through all of its paces and give you a front row seat in the coming VRpocalypse, without having to invest in a competitive gaming pc. It will at least give you a taste of what the first quarter 2016 Oculus Rift experience may be like. The screen resolution feels comparable to the Oculus Crescent Bay demo from spring 2015. This is the test bed for the consumer VR interface. The stability of the sense of place, that the environment in which you are immersed is persistent, is surprisingly solid, even using the smartphone's accelerometers, contrasted with optical motion-tracking. The difference is that with the Gear VR, your position is fixed, even though you can rotate your gaze in all directions; in a 3D game environment generated on the fly by a remote computer and head-tracking, you can also move your head around within a proscribed area. You won't run out of games and proof of concept experiences before getting a sense of how to get the most out of the Gear VR. Staring into the eye of an Apatosaurus is almost as unnerving as being peered at by Smaug in his lair, but it'll be months at least, if ever, before any consumer can make that comparison, which is why this is called an innovator edition. Download Unity and start making your own VR experiences!

The unit is great until you use it for more than an hour. When trying the demo at the sore, you feel like you have been transported to another place. I viewed the New York video and after taking of the unit it felt like I just came back from vacation. It felt real. The reason for giving it 3 start is because after purchasing the product and using it for over an hour, it started to fog up and was not able to finish the moving I was watching. Hopefully they will improve that on the next unit.

For an all in one VR experience it is very cool. The high rez screens aren't there yet but that's coming when Oculus releases there new unit in January. If you have an S6 or S6 edge it works great they are coming out with a cheaper model that will work with the S6 Note 5 and I am assuming the S7. This model seems to be built better than the cheaper model but will work only with the S6. There are heating issues with this but I have found that if you have plenty of air movement around you it isn't as much of a problem. i.e. overhead fan or oscillating fan pointed at you. Also the Power A - Moga Pro Power Gaming Controller works great with this setup. Just make sure you have it set to B.