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stevebot
Is it just me, and the VR community in Seattle, or does it seem like no one is excited about the Samsung VR? I hear very little buzz about it, especially since it's only compatible with the Note 4. Also, I'm not sold on the whole VR/underpowered mobile device pairing either.
Igglyboo
I have a high end gaming rig and the visual fidelity on my DK2 is still subpar, a phone would most likely be way worse even.
bryanlarsen
Your DK2 uses the screen from a Note 3.
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exit
this doesn't look like it has the positional head tracking markers.
tking8924
It doesn't do positional tracking just rotational. Similar to the first Oculus developer kit.
GrantS
Correct -- it is a completely untethered, mobile VR headset and for now has no positional tracking at all. The entire motivation for GearVR existing and Carmack putting all his time into it is to accelerate the arrival of a standalone VR headset based on Android. Carmack seems to have transformed into a computer vision person the last few months in order to implement inside-out markerless tracking for future iterations. So view this as a parallel development track to the Oculus Rift, where the rift is focused on the best experience possible and the GearVR is focused on being an all-in-one device.
Fuzzwah
If you're like me and hadn't been paying much attention to this product:

It is a head mount rig which you plug a galaxy note 4 into which gives you an oculus rift compatible VR head set.

http://i.imgur.com/wKUTy0Q.png

geetee
$200 seems pretty steep. This is just a shell with straps, some sensors and lenses?