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mga010
Honored Guest
After I got it to run now, I find the Gear VR a bit disappointing. The device itself is okay, but the apps on the store are not. I am surprised about the sloppy maintenance of the store.

Some examples? I was looking for something like Streetview. After the Youtopia VR seems to be gone, the closes thing is Visio VR. But it does not work. It claims that I have no Internet connection which is not true. Most likely, the servers are down. Then I tried Art VR which is a 512MB download. After the installation, it tells me that it needs Internet Services which are not available on my phone (a Galaxy S8). Another disappointment was viewing my Cardboard images with the Gallery VR which can only be displayed undistorted at 180° even though they are 360°.

These setbacks do not encourage me to buy any apps. Most of them have quite a few negative comments anyways.
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zproxy
Expert Protege
do hope a 4k samsung vr device comes to market. otherwise 2020 gona be a sad year for mobile vr.

Fazz
Honored Visionary

zproxy said:

do hope a 4k samsung vr device comes to market. otherwise 2020 gona be a sad year for mobile vr.


Will be even more sad if they bring out a 4k headset which doesn't have the hardware to run. We will be playing games at 5 fps if that's the case. 

zproxy
Expert Protege
well, while Carmack is not interested in 4K gearvr, it seems the hardware is here.
looking at Skyworth V901
8K Hardware Video Decoding - 4K Display