

Paired with a Samsung phone, however, it becomes the most robust VR system you can have until dedicated desktop systems arrive next year. In return, Samsung created custom displays for the Oculus Rift, the consumer version of which will come out in the first quarter of 2016.) By itself, the Gear VR is a piece of plastic with a headstrap, a couple of lenses, and an onboard motion sensor.
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(In general terms: Samsung made the hardware with insight gleaned from Oculus' own R&D process, and Oculus developed software to work with the Android ecosystem. That ends today, with the release of Samsung's Gear VR, a mobile headset that the company developed in conjunction with Oculus. And through those three and a half years, there hasn't been a single consumer-grade VR product available in stores. Three and a half years since Palmer Luckey, the kid who had built it, was at home thinking up the Kickstarter campaign that would jumpstart everything. Three and a half years since John Carmack surprised journalists and developers at the E3 gaming expo with a duct-taped monstrosity that would eventually become the Oculus Rift. In the space of three and a half years, virtual reality has matured from a long-dead relic of '90s futurism to a platform that's received billions of dollars of funding and attracted the best and brightest minds in the tech world.
