Samsung Gear VR

Maybe the folks behind Samsung Gear VR are bracing for competition from Google Daydream, because the newest batch of game content is all-around better than the last time we did a new release roundup. Here are the latest mobile VR diversions from the Oculus store.

This year will mark the first holiday season where kids young and old could be unwrapping gifts with virtual reality systems inside. It’s New Atlas’ 2016 VR Comparison Guide.

​The Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR finally has a true rival, in the upcoming Google Daydream View. There’s still a lot we don’t know about the latter, but let’s compare the features and specs we’re aware of right now.

If your Samsung phone hasn’t exploded or been recalled in real life, maybe you’ll enjoy using it to blow up things in virtual reality. Here’s a roundup of this month’s new games for the Gear VR.

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.

​Horror games are often scarier in VR, but now it can help people face a different type of fear: public speaking. Picturing the audience in their underwear doesn’t help much, so the company’s Gear VR app, Speech Center VR, helps people feel more confident in front of a crowd.

A British coder has bodged together a virtual reality cycle tour from one end of the UK to the other, using a Gear VR headset, an exercise bike, and panoramic images from Google Street View. He's halfway through the world's first long distance VR bike ride.

With two major headsets launched and another on the way, virtual reality has filled up many of the tech headlines in 2016. Even with the the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive now on the market, VR still faces a number of tough hurdles before it can become ubiquitous, and here's what we think lies ahead.

With Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7​ comes the release of an updated Gear VR headset​. The updates on the Gear VR mimic those of the Note 7: they mostly relate to product design, and key features remain essentially the same. We took it for a quick spin at Samsung's NYC event this week.

After having my brain smooshed against my skull, my stomach flipped and flopped, and my spine whipped hither and thither, I thought a day at the Six Flags amusement park in St. Louis Missouri couldn't get any more fun. Riding the park's newest virtual reality coaster proved how wrong I was.

We think the Gear VR is the best mobile virtual reality right now by a long shot. But just how far is it behind the leading PC-based VR, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, on an experience level? We have a few thoughts.

After two rounds of developer kits for both devices, the consumer versions of the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR are either here (Gear) or almost here (Rift). Sounds like a good time to compare the two Oculus VR headsets' features and specs.