HoloDust on 07 January 2016
| hershel_layton said: Am I the only one who thinks Samsung's VR can potentially beat Sony's? Think about it. One hundred dollars. All you need is one of the more recent phones(and most likely the next generation, as leaks show sizes will be similar). Considering you most likely have a phone, a lot of people wouldn't mind buying it, even if they use it once every few days. |
You only need $600-700 dollar smartphone, but hey, at least headset is cheap. ;)
Seriously though, maybe next iteration where high end phones are not a requirement, or someone else like that Chinese FiresVR company that's trying to go toe to toe with GearVR, will have a mass market appeal.
Still, there are technical dificulties as well - while Gear VR has a lot in common with OR (screen persistance is good as well as motion-to-photon latency), it does not have positional tracking. From what I've read inside-out tracking is not as easy as fixed outside-in (like with OR, Vive and PSVR), but it seems that Samsung is working on it, so probably next iteration will be able to compete head on.
