Mobile VR

​There are two popular ways to watch the Super Bowl: In person, if you’re lucky enough to score tickets and travel, or at home on TV, most likely surrounded by food and friends. This year, there’s one more option: watching clips in virtual reality.

Oculus has teamed up with Felix & Paul Studios to present "The People's House: A Tour of the White House with Barack and Michelle Obama." The experience is a 360-degree tour of the White House (the US presidential mansion) for Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.

The HoloCube is an interactive holographic toy for use with AR-supporting mobile headsets. Wearers can hold HoloCube and watch it transform into different virtual objects in the palm of their hand.

Google Daydream View is “intriguing, but not yet ready for primetime” and lags behind its (only) mobile VR headset competitor, the Samsung Gear VR. But gaps between these rivals should tighten over the next year and Daydream could even come out on top, thanks to a few key advantages.

​You’ve just unwrapped your shiny new tech gift, torn it from its sleek packaging, and got the thing up and running. Now what? Let New Atlas provide suggestions on which apps and games you should download first, for everything from smartphones to VR headsets.

If you've already got your hands on a Google Daydream View headset, then you are probably an enthusiastic early adopter. Here are New Atlas' picks for the best games and apps to download as you prepare to lose yourself through the power of mobile VR.

Whether you want to slip into VR to escape the holiday bustle, or you’ll be gifting a headset and you need suggestions for the giftee, here’s our picks for must-try Gear VR content.

We review Google Daydream View, an ultra-sleek mobile VR headset that doesn't yet have much content.

With the new Galaxy Note 7​ and its USB-C port​ (a first for the lineup), Samsung needed an updated Gear VR headset to support the new phone/port combo. But this is more than a compatibility update, if only by a little. Read on, as New Atlas reviews the more evolution than revolution 2016 Gear VR.