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Why can't I use Gear VR while laying down?

TheMarco
Explorer
I'm completely baffled by the fact that the Gear VR cannot be used while laying down. I thought nothing would be nicer than to enjoy VR content, play games, watch Milk VR videos etc. while laying in bed before going to sleep. But alas, it does not work. At best you can watch Netflix in Void theater but that's about the only thing that works when you're not sitting upright.

Whyyyyyy???? Samsung, Oculus, being an engineer I know there's really no technical reason for this to not be possible. I sincerely hope this will be fixed in an update. I'm really disappointed that I can't use my Gear VR in this way, Was this use case deliberately overlooked or is this some kind of huge 'oops!' on Samsung / Oculus' side?
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Grendahl06
Honored Guest
+1 for this topic

OneQuickSix
Protege
Absolutely ridiculous Oculus/Samsung ... have it as an OPTION.  For the majority of us that this will have zero negative impact, and all positive impact, PLEASE make it an OPTION.  My back is screwed up right now, so a lot of bed rest and was really looking forward to using this laying down.  What a total disappointment.  That and the inability to store apps/data on an SD card.  Pathetic.

kuyniG
Honored Guest
With samsung Phones and how new they are. The most simplest way without changing the setting would to supposebly having a phone stand to have the phone set upright while using oculus.

Aside from that i totally agree 100 precent with the Automated sensory for a laying feature.

I do not own any vr tech as of the moment and was wondering if you needed to wire the product or is it bluetooth?

darkangel6415
Explorer
Well at least they now have a void mode on some things. Sadly sometimes I like to watch stuff while laying down but I still want to have the option to use all vr environments 

Anonymous
Not applicable
You can with HD VR porn... It works perfectly, but was filmed that way... When you're laying down with her on top, if you sit up it can mess it up.. I will say, I'm not a big porn fan but this impressed the shit out of me

Techy111
MVP
MVP

You can't do it with the main Oculus Home UI, but here's how you do it for the main video apps:

Samsung VR: while facing in your desired direction double-click the back button (just like you double-click a mouse)
Samsung Internet ['s integrated media player]: same as above
Oculus Video: select the Void Theater option, then just look around and tap on the touchpad to reposition
Netflix: look straight up, select "VOID THEATER", then do as above

A PC with lots of gadgets inside and a thing to see in 3D that you put on your head.

TheBlueCat
Honored Guest
So disappointed! I bought mine last week & noticed this almost immediately.
I actually bought the device so I could watch stuff in bed without waking up my girlfriend.
I see that nothing useful (in the way of customer satisfaction) has happened in the last 2 and a half years then?!