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hey everybody this is Sean with The Verge and I am wearing the new version of Samsung's gear VR VR viewer now there's not a ton of differences between this and previous versions but I'm going to point out the most important ones one of them skateboarding down a hill first off we have a whole new touchpad Samsung's really smooth it out so that it doesn't have those grooves anymore it's just a more flat touchpad and obviously this is a whole new color we were used to the gear VR being white this is more of like a black blue kind of echoes some of this style that Samsung put in its other products recently another big difference is that there's a new dedicated button to bring you right back to oculus home so you can get to the menus faster they didn't remove the back button though so that's still there if you need to want if you want to just go through the menus step by step another big change is there's more cushioning on this one it also feels like it breeds a little better so that you don't fog up the lenses easily because and that's a good thing because there's actually a wider field of view this time around 101 degrees versus 96 on the last version whoa and now the last big difference between this and previous gear VR versions is that since this is coming out with the note 7 it's actually USB type-c connector in here but it's modular so you can take the little piece out that connects the USB type-c swap in one that will come with the new gear VR that is micro USB so all of Samsung's other new phones s7 s7 edge and the phone before it will be backwards compatible with this new gear VR this is going to cost the same as the last version in gear VR $99 it's going to be available August 19th when all the other new stuff from Samsung drops like the note 7 in the gear 360 yeah that's it this is the new gear VR from Samsung I'm gonna keep skateboarding see you guys later but what's cool is that it's actually shoot we can start back at that spot right yeah yeah ah