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welcome Villar knots I'm Scott Stein in virtual reality wearing the Samsung gear VR for the galaxy s6 remember six months ago I had taken a look at one of these for the Samsung Note 4 hello and I thought it was an interesting view into virtual reality virtual reality is the ability to transport yourself wearing stereoscopic display that makes you feel like you're in a three-dimensional world that you can look all around in you can get Google cardboard that's super cheap or you can get this system which is the highest quality one you can get the works of the phone but this version works just with the sx last year's version works just with the note 4 as the same types of optics uses the same type of quad HD resolution display that's on this but there are a few more tweaks here there's a fan now to cool down the lenses to prevent fogging when you're wearing it and there's a micro USB pass-through which means that you could charge these up while you're wearing them or having the phone in the display there is an added trackpad here this allows you to navigate and tap in lieu of being able to move your hands which you can't do yet in mobile virtual reality setting it up is simple you just slide the phone in and dock it and click it into place and it works without wearing glasses I have really bad vision but when you put these on there's a dial on top that adjusts focus you could just kick back in a chair and be in your own virtual movie theater like I am the only problem is that the gear VR is not that portable this set you know doesn't really fit into a anything that's smaller than a backpack so I kind of know take it on the train all that much plus you'd be sitting on a train with this thing on your head maybe that's a good thing what's new is a revamped app store oculus who is partnered with Samsung on this headset has a whole collection of mobile apps now dozens and dozens some of which you can pay for others of which are free the downside is this Google's cardboard that cute little foldable cardboard player you just pop any phone into it it works with any app that's available on iOS or on the Google Play Store that says it's VR compatible pop it in try it out it probably works plus it works with YouTube and its panoramic VR videos this does not allow you to tap into that every time you pop in the phone it's launching you right into the oculus experience which is not connected to the rest of your Android phone hopefully some day it will be it's not now this does pair with a Bluetooth game controller so you can actually play games and feel a little more connected but if you want stuff that's going to feel really next wave there will be a lot oculus is planning a a larger-scale effort in mobile VR down the road this is an innovators edition which means it's kind of a collector's item the Samsung gear VR costs an extra two hundred dollars on top of your phone so it's not cheap but if you want the best that mobile VR has to offer right now the Samsung gear VR is it I'm Scots dying back in VR