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IPD of 73mm

I was about to get a Gear VR, but then I decided to measure my IPD. I am an average sized man with an average sized head, so I did not expect my IPD to be too far out of the ordinary. Hoverer It appears to be close to 73mm. Are there any ways to stil...

Alex1S by Honored Guest
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Sound quality: Oculus Cinema vs VR Gallery

Hi:At least on my device (N910U), VR Gallery have a better sound quality than Oculus Cinema. The enviroment of this one is great, but I frequently watch my movies on VR gallery because the quality of sound, more envolving. Is there an option to adjus...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Oculus Home Opening Instead of My App

Hi, i've been playing around with Unity for the past couple of days, have created several basic apps and played them on my Gear VR S6, then all of a sudden i'm unable to - I'm told to place the phone in the Gear VR, i see the Unity logo then "buzz", ...

right eye slightly dimmer in Cinema?

I'm pretty sensitive to this issue and I have seen it before on the DK2 on a few demos. It feels like something is obscuring the vision in my right eye and gets very uncomfortable. It reminds me of this post:viewtopic.php?f=26&t=12732On the GearVR, i...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Request for Gear VR videos and pictures - Folders

I am finding myself using the Gear VR picture and video apps for more and more videos and pictures at the moment. But it's really frustrating having to swipe along loads of icons (often all identical blue squares) to get to the desired file.Would the...

Ashles by Protege
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Problem with movies - my movies and 3D

Hey guys, I just moved everything over to a 128gb sd card, and I'm having some issues. I first formatted the card in the phone itself, then copied the contents of the original card (which was plugged into my pc)to the new card, via USB cable. For som...

Gigatron by Honored Guest
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Near-sightedness and eye muscle tension

Hello I recently got my Gear Vr (s6) . i have near-sightedness (-1.75 - -2.5) + Astigmatism IPD 65mm .any time i use my VR even for a short time span like 15 minutes ,i experience a kind of pressure on my eyes usually more on my left eye. it is like ...

Areon by Honored Guest
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Surround Sound Headphones For Oculus Cinema

Appreciate that this topic has been discussed before but now that the People have been using the Gear VR for a whIle, can anyone tell me if they have had any success in getting either true surround or simulated surround working in Oculus Cinema using...

ifflanb by Honored Guest
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Smelly foam?

I believe that it started when I spend several days at a place with lots of people smoking (and testing my GearVR).....The foam of my GearVR has a smell that reminds me of smoke and ash even more than 1month after that? Or is anything else causing th...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Oculus Cinema - new features coming!

Just found this great interview. Whilst it covers many questions, it says most about the oculus cinema, with a host of new feature coming, and sounds like a couple of surprises come fall!http://heavy.com/tech/2015/06/exclusive ... g-gear-vr/Also soun...

Problem: Note 4 and Gear VR not matching

Hi Guys,i´ve got a problem: Client has ordered Note 4 and Gear VR but those two units are not matching. The mobile phone does not recognize the Gear VR. When i am testing both units with other devices, everything is working. Any Help?Best,Robin

[ISSUE] App updates not showing up in 2D Oculus app

Just in case it isn't in Oculus' bug tracking system yet, more than once now I've run into an issue where I hear about something being updated (Oculus Cinema and VR Karts in particular), and the update doesn't show up in the 2D Oculus app -- meaning,...

drash by Heroic Explorer
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Best way to move to a larger SD card?

Hey guys, I picked up 128gb micro sd card, so I can put a couple of large movies on at once. I was thinking of taking the 16gb card, and loading it in the computer. Then mount the 128gb card in the phone, format it, then move the contents of the 16gb...

Gigatron by Honored Guest
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TOP 5 GAMES for GEAR VR - youtube link

Here's my pick for the top 5 gear vr games:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNNutHgxEAI'll also do a review/gameplay on Keep talking and nobody explodes ... it's too bad I already shot the top 5 - I have a feeling this game will be on the next countd...

wolfsuka by Honored Guest
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Proton Pulse Boss

Is there anyone out there that's beaten the Proton Pulse end boss? If so, any pointers? I keep trying to beat him, it's such a huge challenge. Such an awesome game though. The boss has so many transformations, it ends up being really difficult.

Vanguard V problem

Posting this for the higher ups to see and wondering if anybody else is having this issue after the new oculus app update.After the new oculus update, Vangard V doesn't work for me anymore.Everything is fine until you get to the actual game play, the...

US Verizon Note 4 overheating and other app failures

Hello everyone,When I first received my GearVR it worked perfectly. I used it up to an hour without any problems or glitches.Then verizon pushed lollipop out and all of a sudden some of my apps don't even load(ie: photo gallery goes black then back t...

swig by Honored Guest
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Gear VR S6 Unity Builds are not working

Is anyone else having problems with getting their Unity builds to work on the new gear VR? I had a project that would debug with no problem on a Note 4, I took this same project and switched out the osig file for the one that corresponds to the S6 bu...

Broken Apps on Samsung Gear VR

I am not seeing any responses to the apps that are not functioning. So thought I would list the apps here and see if maybe the developers can respond with what they might need to help fix these issues. It's been over 3 weeks on some of these so thoug...

Kaos2269 by Honored Guest
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Graphical bug at loading

Hi,I'm facing an issue: when started my app, after the Unity logo, several assets of my scene appear in very large scale, right in front of my eyes, some times different assets for each eye, and then disappear after about 1 second, leaving my scene a...

iSofTom by Honored Guest
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Can't open any apps...

I am unable to open any apps from within the Gear VR home screen.For example, if I choose Oculus Cinema it will load for a second or two (I can see the Interstellar poster) then it closes and reverts back to the home screen.I've uninstalled & reinsta...

liminalvr by Honored Guest
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Rejected from Oculus Store, now what?

Some of my students and I entered made a bit of an unusual entry to the VRJam, which was a scientific experiment on presence.http://vrjam.challengepost.com/submissions/37002-presence-experimenthttp://vr.cs.ucl.ac.uk/vrjam/The idea was to collect real...

asteed by Honored Guest
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Internationalization

We've been developing for the GearVR since it came out, although we have only taken one of our experiences to the GearVR store. As the GearVR starts expanding into new markets it's got our team thinking about internationalization and localization.All...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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5.1 native VR support vs. Oculus Mobile Unity Integration

I'm starting a new project and figured now that GearVR is supported in 5.1 I'd move on to Unity's native VR support.But I'm super duper familiar with the OVR mobile SDK, and 5.1's native VR support is uncharted territory. Are the performance benefits...

flarb by Partner
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Non-Gear VR 360 video player?

I have recorded some 360 videos on my Kodak PixPro sp360 - I have unfolded them to YouTube settings and they play perfectly on my Gear VR in the Oculus 360 video app.I want to share them with someone who has an android phone (not a Note 4) - has anyo...

Ashles by Protege
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