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Oh hey it's Josh regard from Android 30 what's going on everybody and I'm here at oculus connect the Developer Conference for oculus rift and also for Samsung gear VR and this morning we got a couple of announcements from Samsung about new content and also a new peripheral that they're coming out with for gear VR now unfortunately I won't be able to show you the new peripheral at $99 it's a bit of a game changer providing gear VR to the consumer masses for a very accessible price point you got to give them a lot of credit for that and we're really excited to get our hands on it and I was actually able to feel a prototype version of it so I can give you at least a couple of points that it is bringing to the table the new gear VR at $99 will be able to fit not only the s6 the s6 edge but also the s6 edge plus and the galaxy note 5 it will be able to fit all of them because the size of the actual headset is going to be the size that you would expect first a the note 5 except on the bottom there is a slider that will allow you to put in the s6 or the s6 edge so that it can accommodate the smaller device now that's really awesome because in the past gear VR was only available if you were to get new versions of them based upon that Samsung device that you probably have I know that I had the note 4 in the past last year and then the note 5 and the s6 came out and having to get new versions of the gear VR was definitely not really ideal for people but now you'll be able to get gear VR at a very good price point for all four of them so no matter which of this year Samsung smartphones you have you'll be able to use gear VR now the thing about this particular headset is that it kind of weighs down on the cheeks a little bit and that's kind of just a way that people have been tolerating the gear VR experience as awesome as it is it kind of weighs things down and look especially when you take off the top head strap which is something that I tend to do so I don't mess up my hair and lawn can attest to that as well and what makes it really nice is that the new gear VR is substantially lighter than any of the other iterations we've had already now that's gonna make it easy to bring the gear VR for a lot of different applications like for example being on a flight let's say you're going from LA to New York or even an international flight you'll be able to have this on the plane without it weighing your face day and the lightness will make it easier for everyone and even easier entry point into the video now video content is where things are starting to get pretty pretty interesting because now there are actual partners from regular video streaming sites in this case Netflix that are coming to gear VR now the Netflix the Netflix experience is actually kind of simple what you're going to do is when you fire up Netflix from oculus home which is the platform that you use in order to access all of the apps that oculus makes available from gear VR you find yourself inside a living room it's really the best way to put it you find yourself inside of a living room there's a coffee table in front of you where there are some props and everything and basically you're there and when you pick from a regular Netflix looking menu what you want to watch it comes up as if you're watching it in a theater and that's a that's a pretty interesting way of watching Netflix it'll give you that depth of field sort of feel I should say that will allow you to feel like you're at home watching TV we're going to be able to do is use oculus social on Samsung Galaxy devices on gear VR to share in an experience with other people who have the same peripheral and the same set now in my case I used twitch as a way of sharing an experience of watching game streams with friends when you look inside and you fire up oculus so shoulder then fire up the twitch stream again you're leaving the room but when I look around there are four other chairs and you'll be able to see avatars of the other people who are joining you as you're watching the twitch stream now this is nice because you'll also be able to hear the audio input from all of those people so what you'll be able to do is share in an experience and be able to talk about the experience with them now in this case we only looked at twitch streams but there should be other platforms that are available like hopefully YouTube and even Netflix for example because we already saw the living room example with the Netflix with the Netflix demo so yeah I'm just picking it here with Samsung and oculus at the oculus connect to developer conference we took a look at the new gear VR that's coming at $99 and there's only about a couple months away but there is their new Khan as well certain games have been added in as well but now they provide a couple of examples of how to play games on here but it's mostly a lick and point-and-click experience unless of course you're using the Samsung controller right here that are to be able to control certain rooms just like that but it still has a uniquely mobile experience something you would expect a smartphone to be able to do in terms of gaming but we're gonna take a look at a couple of other things here at oculus connect so stay tuned to Android or even more as I'm here at oculus is developer conference