VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Last month, more than 1,200 people participated in VR Fest MX , Mexico’s first international virtual reality festival, the first of its kind in Latin America and Spain. Mattel used the event to unveil its VR View-Master in Mexico, while Samsung and Unity were also some of the event’s main sponsors.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2017

The CNNVR app has been available on Google’s Daydream VR platform since its November launch last year, and is now publishing content to the Samsung VR app on Gear VR and Oculus Video app on Rift too. In addition, CNN’s iOS and Android apps now support 360 video, along with the desktop site CNN.com/VR.

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VRScout

MAY 24, 2016

Samsung begins selling the Gear 360 in New Zealand – who’s going to be next? When Samsung first unveiled their Gear 360 camera back in February, I was eager to learn more and compare the camera to other competing consumer 360° models. Back in February, Samsung announced that the Gear 360 would be shipping sometime in Q2 2016.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Samsung was one of the first truly massive tech companies to develop VR hardware.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2022

The Nreal Light glasses launched first in Korea, Japan, Germany, and Spain. On my Samsung S10, I got about two hours max before my battery drained to 30%. Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 16, 2016

Passes Half a Million Downloads on Gear VR Generally speaking, Oculus and Samsung won’t release official figures for software sales on Gear VR, but Resolution Games today revealed an impressive figure for Bait! Resolution Games’ ‘Bait!’ That’s not all Resolution Games had to announce, though.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 15, 2020

The sale runs until this Sunday, 19th April, available in the following countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Russia, and South Korea. It’ll even support Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

It’s been about six months since the launch of the last Gear VR but Samsung is already readying the next iteration of the device. The new Gear was revealed today by Oculus just before Samsung’s 2017 Mobile World Congress event in Spain. Samsung Europe addressed the issue on stage.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

After raising $480,000 in funds through Kickstarter and an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures, FOVE later participated in the River accelerator program early last year alongside a number of other “frontier technology” startups.

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