Oculus isn't waiting for virtual reality to be perfect. It's coming this year. Oculus tech guru John Carmack just revealed that—barring calamity—the next Samsung smartphone will double as the first consumer version of the Oculus VR experience.
Yes, that means you're going to be strapping a phone to your head. And you'll like it, too.
To be clear, we're not talking about the new Samsung Galaxy S6 and its accompanying Gear VR headset. It's the one after that. In other words—unless Samsung changes its release strategy between now and then—the unannounced Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and the third iteration of the Gear VR will be the first true Oculus headset.
"Oculus is going for it as hard as we can, broad consuumer, trying to sell as many units as possible with the next Gear VR," Carmack just announced at the 2015 Game Developers Conference.
Carmack explained that while Oculus had originally been skeptical of Gear VR, worried that a VR product with a lot of lingering issues might make users sick and turn people off of VR altogether, they were surprised how well it did, and how it actually helped spread the popularity of virtual reality by letting people easily share the experience with friends.
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