The Daydream View VR headset is now available to purchase in India. Currently, Flipkart is the only official retailer and the headset is only available in the Slate color.
VR has a chicken/egg problem. Why buy a VR headset if there are no games to play? Conversely, why develop VR games if there is no one to play them? Merge VR is hoping to solve this with a $1 million fund to fuel AR and VR developers.
A new patent published by the US Patent & Trademark Office has revealed that Samsung is working on several accessories for the Gaer VR. The first is a clear cover case so that the smartphone camera can take a picture of the outside world, or provide picture-in-picture view.
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Samsung's new 3.5-inch VR displays have 2,024 x 2,024 resolution, which makes for 858ppi. That's more than 3 times more pixels than what you'd find inside the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.
The Samsung Gear VR is getting support for Chromecast, Oculus has announced. You'll be able to stream your VR musings to your Chromecast screens to let others in on the fun.
A company called Machina is working on a connected shirt which can interface with VR apps. The shirt's various sensors would be used to detect body movement, and the user can perform gestures to make certain actions happen in a game.
Android Central believes Google should start selling the Daydream controller by itself, instead of requiring a full purchase of the Daydream VR headset.
Daydream Euphrates has been announced at Google I/O 2017 and will bring an all-new experience to your virtual reality devices. The update also includes a built-in VR web browser, while also adding a 2D panel to allow users to access normal Android functions in VR.
Google has announced that YouTube VR will be adding a shared rooms feature which will allow people to watch 360-degree videos together. The feature will launch later this year.
Adi from The Verge went hands-on with the new WorldSense VR headset from Google and states that despite the headset being a prototype, it works as advertised.
Google I/O 2017 is still taking place, and today at 12:30 there will be a live stream of the conference regarding Google's AR and VR initiative, where are expecting to learn more about the new standalone VR headset.
After announcing the Daydream VR platform, Adi from The Verge asks where are all of the devices which Google promised would support Daydream. Adi then proceeds to show the updates from each of the OEM's which were announced as a partner.
Samsung was the biggest seller in VR in Q1 2017, with the company shipping 782,000 units of the Gear VR. The next closest was Sony's PS VR with 375,000 units.
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