I'm gonna ask a little question so that this topic has a purpose and is not considered flood, but I felt I had to express how impressed I have been with the Samsung Gear VR. For any curious browsing this forum and wondering if they should give it a try, I say yes a hundred times. I am convinced all these headsets are the beginning of something big, something that will grow bigger than any entertaining and movies experience we've known until now, and the most surprising is that it is no longer a vague dream but something actual that money can buy as of today.
The simple idea to feel like I am watching a movie is a huge screen in the middle of a movie theater, while actually I'm looking at my phone, is incredible. Activating the "camera mode" may sound stupid but immediately gave me tons of ideas where you could see what someone else see, or remotely drive a car or drone from the inside.
In fact, this is one of the best thing about it: while people buy smart watches wishing that a killer app will emerge and make it feel useful, with these VR headsets I feel like the ideas and possibilities and so huge that it will take a while, maybe forever, before we'll be done with VR. I honestly didn't expect to feel that way, I was just very cursious about VR (well mostly because a friend of mine was), and now I realized we made it, we're reaching a new milestone in media/entertainment systems. Of course the current ones are still the beginning of it, they're the Nokia of the smartphones, the black and white screens of the TV. In fact, I remembered one of these very first movies "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" (L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat) and thought the same should be done with VR, where the train just run into you, which may provide the same kind of reaction to the audience experiencing VR for the first time.
Alright so if this is all too off-topic or useless I apologize and you can delete it, I simply couldn't resist, I have never been so excited for a very long time. Now as for my question, I loved the Samsung Trailer where you start above the city and it's usually the first thing I make people try witht the headset. However the quality is not as good as some videos that require downloading that we can find in other applications, and I was wondering if there is a way to get the same trailer in higher res somewhere? Or otherwise if you could tell me what is the closest thing in terms of experience (flying over a city or being surrounded by lions) that we can find? I'm still new with the system and haven't figured out all the different video apps and sources.
Thanks and I really hope many of you share the same exctiement I got, that is priceless. Oh and sorry for any English mistakes that would hurt your eyes (they have better things to do - your eyes).
PS: I know VR headsets have been there for a little while now and I am just joining the party a bit late, but my point was that it is still very early compared to the dimensions it will scale to.
Hey, just in case someone else is interested I found out we can download the Samsung Trailer (and a bunch of other great videos) from the app im360VR.
The quality is not best but way better than streaming, for instance the horses which you helicopter over actually look like horses and not aggregates of blurry pixels, recommended.
"spotzup" wrote: Hey, just in case someone else is interested I found out we can download the Samsung Trailer (and a bunch of other great videos) from the app im360VR.
The quality is not best but way better than streaming, for instance the horses which you helicopter over actually look like horses and not aggregates of blurry pixels, recommended.
That's great, going to try them now. thanks for the heads up 😉
