Samsung's Gear VR has always been an anomaly among the company's dizzyingly diverse product lineup. Ever since the first edition of the headset debuted alongside the Galaxy Note 4 in 2014 ...

Samsung has walked a pretty smart path with the Gear VR. It recently released a new third-generation version of its phone-powered headset, and its goal hasn't changed: be simple, and be affordable.

Samsung never made any pretensions that the Gear VR would be small and portable -- it's always been a rather large headset that looks like you have a giant pair of ski goggles strapped on your face.

But now the new Gear VR controller, which ships with the headset and is compatible with all previous Gear VRs, is set to transform Samsung’s virtual reality experience. Previously, to select ...

Rumors of a new headset have been circulating for a while, but we've yet to see anything concrete from the company. The Samsung Gear VR is one of the best and cheapest ways to experiences virtual ...

The Samsung Gear VR and the Google Daydream headset need a phone inside to work. The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift need to be connected to a computer to work. All provide great VR experiences ...

The Gear VR is supposed to be a mass market product, and is in fact the first retail VR headset to be released in the modern wave of VR enthusiasm. Gear VR is a virtual reality headset that ...

But as extraordinary as both devices are, they’re absolute bunk compared to the best VR headset of this generation: the Samsung Gear VR. Yeah. I said it. The Samsung Gear VR is the best VR ...

Samsung and Oculus are back with another Gear VR – the third in 17 months (or fifth in two and a half years, if you count the two semi-consumer Innovator Edition models). While the headset ...

And you’ll generally get lower-quality, laggier performance than on the Gear VR or a high-end headset. While not all Google Cardboard-style headsets are easily portable, the most portable ...

Samsung’s Gear VR Innovator’s Edition was half-consumer product, half-dev kit, and it showed. Overly expensive, a lack of content, a slightly-cumbersome headset—all of these were real ...

Status: Samsung hasn’t made a Gear VR headset — or any other kind of extended reality gadget — since 2018. That could change soon with help from partners Google and Qualcomm. Features ...