Samsung (KRX: 005930) Partners With Oculus For $99 VR Headset

Peter Koo, Samsung’s SVP, has just announced at Facebook’s Oculus Connect VR developer conference that – after two years of working together – Samsung andOculus VR are ready to release a co-developed consumer headset. The gadget also displays “photorealistic imagery that fills your field of vision in all directions, eliminating the jitter common to previous VR technologies”, the Web page added. It is also 22% lighter and much more comfortable to use for longer periods of time. Oculus is clearly moving away from its developer-centered origins as it tries to market to regular consumers.

It’s not new that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is keen on pushing virtual reality as the next major thing in computing platforms, as he’s been quoted on multiple occasions on his interest in advancing this technology.

Do you like the idea of being able to watch Netflix in virtual reality?

Meanwhile, the upcoming Oculus Rift VR headset is expected to go on sale in the first quarter of 2016, technical details of which sound rather intriguing.

Google has pushed dirt-cheap VR with its Cardboard initiative, distributing more than a million low-priced smartphone holders that generally work okay with the primary smartphones we already have.

Koo says that the new Gear VR will ship in November, before Black Friday in the USA and will be released worldwide shortly after that. The most recent attempt is the launch of the Netflix app in the Virtual Reality arena. The Samsung Gear VR will be available in Frost White later this fall. If you enjoyed Oculus Cinema, you’ll be thrilled to know Netflix, Hulu and Twitch are coming to your headset. A few of it’s been announced, most of it hasn’t, so, yeah, people definitely get it. That message has really been hammered home, and the good thing is, there’s no dissenters.

Munster maintained an Overweight rating for Facebook with a price target of $146. Instead, we praise our own attempts to control every turn in the road: what do you want? what are you doing to get there? what practical steps have you taken toward your goal today?

Other specs include a gyrosensor, accelerometer, laser position sensor, and ergonomic VR game controllers. Incredibly, very soon, CNN is going to offer a front row view of the U.S. presidential debates, for those who have the Gear VR. Nothing is impossible anymore when any identity, any life could be yours, and you no longer have to lead just one existence.

In terms of its core specifications, however, Sony’s device is strikingly similar to that of Oculus’ Rift.