Streaming Video Meets Virtual Reality with 三星 Gear VR
三星 made virtual reality headsets much more attractive to the average consumer yesterday when it announced the $99 三星 Gear VR headset. 与Oculus合作, 三星 created a headset that's 22 percent lighter than the previous model and works with an expanded range of 三星 phones. The previous model only worked with the Galaxy S6 and Note 4, but the Gear VR works with all of the company's 2015 Galaxy phones, including the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge+, S6, 和S6 Edge. (The headset requires a 三星 phone for operation.)
What's going to change people's perceptions of VR, 然而, is the announcement that Gear VR works with a variety of streaming video services. The headset currently supports Netflix, and will soon work with Twitch, Hulu, and Vimeo, 也. That turns VR headsets from motion sickness-inducing gaming devices into personal head-mounted theaters. The Twitch stream will let viewers take part in group chats.
Hulu announced that it will stream not only 2D TV shows and movies, but short-form VR videos, 也. Consumers will also be able to stream over 100 movies from Fox through an Oculus Cinema app and games through the Oculus Arcade.
The 三星 Gear VR will hit the market in the U.S. in November, just in time for the holiday buying season.
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