"....Samsung's VR aspirations, both for the Gear VR and for the nearly equally inactive
Windows Mixed Reality platforms,
are done for now. In both situations, Samsung was just the hardware
partner, and not really involved in the parts of the ecosystem that made
the most money in the end. And at this point, if Samsung were to try to
spin up its own system to replace what it has lost, it's not
immediately clear the company would be able to successfully pull it off....."
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Also totally missed that Samsung and OculusVR had developed together a Standalone GearVR headset prototype as far back as 2014 (image)
Playing Quest games on my S10+ could be great fun.
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You were not good, and your argument died !
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From the Samsung executives that spoke after the Note 10 launch (in confidence), it seems that the GearVR was killed off back in late 2017 with a parting of the way between OculusVR and Samsung over a mixture of issues that had arisen - some linked to the legal suit, some due to conflicts of interest, and some due to differing perspective on how the market was shaping. Samsung still sold OculusVR displays, but the reality was that there were no plans to move forward on the GearVR even though some vested sources claimed the relationship was still intact. There is also some issue with how many of the GearVR apps will be ported to Go - but details are still vague on this.
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The Lion King was filmed entirely in virtual reality (well, save a single photographed shot). All the locations you know from the original—Pride Rock, the elephant graveyard, Rafiki’s Ancient Tree—exist, but not as practical sets or files confined to an animator’s computer. They live inside a kind of filmmaking videogame as 360-degree virtual environments, full of digitized animals, around which Favreau and his crew could roam. Headsets on, filmmakers had access to all the tools of the trade, just in virtual form. Say you’re getting ready for a scene in which young Simba talks to Zazu, his father’s adviser, and the “sun” isn’t falling on Simba’s face the way it should. Favreau or visual effects supervisor Rob Legato could just add a “light” to boost the intensity.
https://www.wired.com/story/disney-new-lion-king-vr-fueled-future-cinema/
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Interesting perspective @nalex66 - I would assume that Samsung's success in selling the only popular WinMR headset (Odyssey and Odyssey+) as well as their soon to be announced Standalone VR system are examples of the value they have seen - along with the benefit Samsung has in selling the displays that are used by the majority of the manufacturers (must be great selling both OculusVR and Sony the displays they use in their headsets!)
I think its interesting to learn that the relationship between OculusVR and Samsung had ended a lot earlier than some alluded too, and that we will now see Samsung launching their own Standalone - so competition will be good for the consumer.
This was mentioned during the VR Arcade Conference held by Microsoft back in April - the speaker from Samsung, and their Asian R&D team confirmed they are working on a Standalone headset using the SD855 and what was laughingly called the "Quest-Killer" - it was also during conversations that they revealed the real issues that lead to their abandonment of GearVR relationship and moving onto the WinMR platform, (details of this revealed in The Stinger Report).
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Okay back to the OP - before the derail.
To the point @RedRizla about seeing nothing. I am also fascinated that Samsung did not roll any official statement out about the end of the GearVR till they were questions at the conference, and now in the interview with media at the Note10 launch. I was surprised by their candidness off the record regarding the OculusVR partnership, but if they will not go to print I have to wonder? Also if their new Standalone does not materialise any time soon, I will have to call out their claims.
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