I'm sure there are many others on here, in the same position as i am. I'm also sure that there are many others from the opposite side, whom will just use VR on their PC, and aren't even considering PSVR.

Let me guess - whatever they come up with will be "innovative" and "magical" for measly price of $699?

it's a peripheral you can use with Samsungs latest high end smartphones, so out of the 4 listed it has the highest install base of potential users (it's estimated there are ~ 13m "VR ready" PCs out there, Gear VR compatible Galaxy S6+/S6/Note5 phone sales should be comfortably above 100m - PS4 is at ~36m as we all know)

and it's already been released in 2015 (2014 as "innovator edition", compatible only to one phone) and as most of the expensive tech is within the phone the HMD peripheral only costs $100

by the way to call it "Samsung VR" is a bit misleading, it's a product designed by Oculus, just like the Rift

Thanks for the info, it's nice to know what it's used for and such. I guess i've never heard of it, because i've owned nothing but iPhones. for about the past 6-7 years.

It's Apple. I'm sure you can go way higher than $699.

Nah, Gear VR will likely sell the best since it's only $100 and works with a popular line of smart phones.

Otherwise I think you're right, it's highly likely that PSVR outsells both of its PC based competitors.

Isn't the iPhone 6+ the better iPad alternative ? The tablet market is being replaced with phablets, and in both markets, Apple has biggest pieces of the pie. Mac sales aren't too bad, the best they've ever been.

The Apple Watch is a first gen product and it's doing OK for such a useless device. Look how many attempts MS took to make the Surface machines a viable line of products (that is still niche?). Why is Apple supposed to get every product right with their first attempt? It's not possible when the technology isn't there yet. It's less about losing the edge and more about the unrealistic expectations that Apple products deal with.

I still believe the Apple Watch in its current state, and smartwatches in general, will not be much bigger than they are right now. I don't need another product that I have to worry about charging on a daily basis when it barely offers any extra functionality


HoloLens is yet to be a big thing , why are we talking about it being killed? Not downplaying the tech, but making a cool tech demo and implementing it in a real product that people need or want to buy is two vastly different things.

Same thing could be said for lots of the VR headsets (or VR as a whole?), especially the PSVR, A VR headset that requires a gaming console to operate isn't exactly a hot product for the masses.

iPhones being the best selling and the most capable smartphones (in terms of hardware) & Apple continuous investment in making their own CPUs/future GPUs (that is paying off extremely well) can be considered good reasons why hypothetical Apple VR headsets/AR devices that depend on or borrow some processing powers from the iPhone are gonna be positioned well among the available offerings, hypothetically.

Let's wait and see which company will break VR to the masses. Exciting days indeed.

and I'd like to add; just because tech giants are interested in VR doesn't mean the tech is going to explode and become the next hot thing.

I still remember when everyone and their mother wanted to make a tablet because it sounded like the next iPhone, including MS, which tweaked (and possibly butchered?) the Windows user interface just to make it tablet friendly.

Yet here we are, witnessing the rise and fall of the tablets thanks to Samsung normalizing huge smartphones. So who knows!

Prepare for spending 1200€ for AppleVR lol

The huge size of their phones, is one of the main things that keeps me away.