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Samsung’s Gear VR with Oculus to go ‘full consumer’ by year’s end

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The Samsung Gear VR is said to get a full consumer push by year’s end, at least according to Oculus CTO John Carmack. Speaking at the Game Developers Conference he said, “Internally, some would have preferred it to be called a ‘developer kit,’ but Samsung doesn’t do developer kits.”

Carmack made mention of this during his talk at the conference, called “The Dawn of Mobile VR.”

Originally set to work with the Note 4, Oculus as already announced  a model is in the works that pairs with the new S6 and S6 Edge. That said, the consumer version of the Gear VR won’t be much different than that of the current/innovators editions. But according to Carmack, the VR set won’t just be for gaming purposes.

“People kinda like photos and videos,” he said. “We can do photos and videos with virtual reality in a way that is very powerfully better than what you get with traditional headsets.”

Carmack declined to give a more specific time window for the Gear VR’s launch, but said Samsung would be ready to “go out and do their blitz.”

“When everything is ready, ads will be everywhere,” he said. “Oculus is going forward as hard as we can, trying to sell as many units as possible with the next Gear VR.”

He continued.

“The truth is, we don’t yet know what the best applications are going to be. There’s a lot to explore here. This is a legitimate opportunity.”

With HTC and Valve set to release their Vive VR set by the end of the game, the end of 2015 is gearing up to be the start of the VR movement. Which camp are you in?

source: Re/Code

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