Latest version of Samsung Gear VR headset coming in November for $99 - Virtual reality is taking several steps closer to the mainstream along with Samsung launched a headset that offers the technology to its new android phones at half the price of its previous model.
The announcements at a developers conference in Los Angeles for virtual reality technology company Oculus represent efforts to boost the platform beyond a video-gamer-focused niche.
Facebook as well unveiled support for 360-degree video, as well as online video services as Hulu jumping and Netflix into the format.
Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who make a deal to buy Oculus for $2 billion past year, tell some 1,500 conference participants Thursday that virtual reality is 'the next logical step' in online file sharing as text, photos and video.
'Within a few years, VR has gone from being this science fiction dream to an amazing reality,' he said. 'And it is time we're all here have a opportunity to transform the way we play, collaborate and communicate .'
Zuckerberg exhibiting a promo for the upcoming 'Star Wars' movie showing a oncoming vehicle zooming over the desert scenery of fictional planet Jakku. Users can have a look around in any direction by using their mouse like the video is playing.
Samsung had said its new virtual reality headset will be 22 % lighter in wight and cost $99, 50 % the price of its previous model.
Excerpted from: dailymail
