Vr supported samsung mobiles3/28/2023 According to statistics, Samsung cell phone owners make up almost 70 million users, about a quarter of the US cell-phone-owning population. Now of course there’s always going to be people trying to get in on the ground floor of a new technology, as they should, but it seems that at least for the moment, anyone developing educational tools just for the Gear should consider creating a lower-end port, if they actually care about reaching students.Įven for developers and educators looking ahead and betting on future iterations of Gear VR being that mid-tier standard, it seems that the Samsung-owned headset would be a hindrance to itself. I’m sure in time there will be a true “middle class of VR” that can appeal to both the low and mid range, much like Android filled that mobile gap over the course of a decade, but for now, it kind of begs the question of why anyone would design educational tools with only the Gear VR in mind. As weak as my phone might be it could run most Cardboard apps fine, but where does the leave the “mid-tier” headsets like the Gear VR? It’s true that quality-wise, it can do some things that you just can’t on something simple like a Cardboard, but having a product that isn’t accessible enough for a classroom and also not good enough for gaming just seems to leave it in a state of novelty. There’s been a push on many fronts that the low-end is easily accessible for classrooms all over the US. My personal disappointments over all this has really had me thinking about the state of low-end VR for things like education. There’s also the power limitations, with some high-quality 360 videos struggling to run and often just buffering, pixelating, or flat out just crashing the app. The screen resolution shows its faults with every app, everything always looking a little worse than I know it should. Playing around with my cheap phone is just a constant reminder that I’m missing out on something more. That doesn’t mean I like it much, though. The Gear VR with a Samsung phone attached
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