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’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 ...

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.

Once you plug a phone into the new Samsung Gear VR headset, it does some incredible things. The most mind-boggling of them this: It makes looking at a magnified phone feel a lot more like using an ...

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 ...

Samsung and Facebook’s Oculus just unveiled the Gear VR, which transforms the Galaxy Note 4 into a virtual reality headset. What does this mean for the future of mobile games? At IFA 2014 in ...

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.

The Gear VR headset itself still provides some crucial extra processing for tracking the angle of your head and a touchpad on the side for basic in-app controls (you can also use bluetooth ...

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 ...

Apologies to Samsung. I’ve talked a lot of smack about its Gear VR headset, from the day we first heard the rumor that “Samsung is getting into virtual reality.” It seemed like a disaster in ...

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 ...

Virtual reality is no longer just the stuff of science fiction. Today you can strap on a headset that costs less than the price of a smartphone and dive into a new world of interactive entertainment.