High comfort Samsung Samsung Gear VR Controller

To cope with the challenge of Google Daydream, Samsung will provide a new generation of Gear VR and its associated motion sensing controller. At last night's Galaxy S8 conference, Samsung announced that the new Gear VR will be officially launched on April 21, priced at 129 US dollars. Users who purchased an older Gear VR can purchase the controller separately for $39. It should be pointed out that Gear VR has a significant price advantage over other equipment such as Vive, but it is at least $80 more expensive than Daydream. Of course, for the moment, the mobile VR ecosystem provided by Oculus and Samsung is better and the number and quality of VR game applications are better. We had the opportunity to experiment with this controller on the old Gear VR, and the comfort was really good. Its motion sensing is quite accurate and rapid, and the hand feels quite good. The controller has an ergonomic design. Our fingers can naturally fall on the front touchpad and the rear buttons (of course the shape is not integrated with the Daydream controller). Daydream controllers have fewer buttons, so the button on the back of the Gear VR controller is their biggest difference (helpful when playing games). We know that the buttons on the back are available on many gamepads and are very suitable for VR shooting games. In addition to the hardware, Oculus Home Mobile has also upgraded the new Gear VR. The speed of the interface switching has been improved, so we will see that the pure black buffer interface will be less when loading. The interface definition of Oculus Home also improved, mainly because the resolution of the software interface was doubled. Another feature is to prepare for the future, Oculus added a VR web browser, we can go online directly in the Gear VR. Of course, most applications of the Gear VR store currently do not support this controller. Daydream is different. All software was designed for the controller from the very beginning. Oculus said that there will be 20 VR applications supporting controllers in April, followed by 50 VR games. As long as the government continues to promote, compatibility issues should be gradually resolved. Oculus is preparing to put its own avatar functions into the Gear VR platform. We can design our own avatars in virtual reality to prepare for VR socialization. As for the new Gear VR itself, it is an optimized version of the previous generation of Gear VR. It has only been adjusted in some details and dimensions, and there is nothing special about it.

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