[Galaxy Note 4 General] amitoberoi:
Hey kris,

Sorry for the delay. Here goes

Gear vr works perfectly with the Indian note 4.i have installed all the apps available in the oculus store. I have so far seen the Iceland video in 360 videos. It is really beautiful. Specially the starting where I am supposedly in a helicopter and flying directly above the running horses. The scenery is really beautiful. The whole virtual reality thing cannot be explained in words. U have to see it to feel it. I also tried another one wherein I am in a rocky area. That one was really good, pixelwise I mean. I can look all around and it seems pretty real. In that one to go forward oculus has deviced a neat trick. There are points floating all over the area and u look at a point directly and u move in that direction. That was the first time I really experienced forward motion in vr, and it was thrilling. Then I got a bit bold and played temple run. Now that is something which really cannot be put into words but I will try. In That game the running happens by itself and u can jump, duck and go left and right using the touch pad on the gear vr. I can't tell u how immersive that game is. I was literally going left and right along with the player. And the forward motion thing which I was saying about is amazing. It is a different feeling altogether and it seemed that I am moving ahead with such pace. But I had to stop after a while as I started feeling uneasy with all the motion. Lastly I used the oculus cinema. That thing is beautiful, unlike any cinema player I have experienced in Google cardboard. The detailing in the movie Hall and home theatre when u look around is absolutely amazing. It is so real that the first time I saw it I really felt that I was sitting in a movie hall all alone. It only has trailers of afew movies right now. So I copied a 3d movie and another 2d movie in the device storage in the specified folders. And the oculus cinema picked up the movies easily. I saw the movie jack reacher, almost halfway thru and it was a pretty good experience. I think a full movie is completely watchable.

That said, there are some issues too. One thing is the screen quality. Even the note 4 screen seems not enough for all things vr and the movie watching. Closeups are ok but if something is small on the ecreen the detailing gets lost. However it is not too much a problem and the movie or video watching is pretty good.

Another bigger problem is that the lens are getting fogged up in the first 5 mins of wearing the gear vr. I don't know why that is but I had to remove the vr 4 to 5 times in the first 15 mins to clean the lenses. After that it did not happen so I don't know why that was happening. Will try again today and report back.

Another issue is the focus. I don't wear specs but even then I had to crank the focus wheel right to the very end to get a fairly sharp picture. I have a screen guard on the screen, the glass type and maybe that is what is making hard to focus. Will remove the screen guard today and try again.

All in all, it is an amazing device despite these small issues. I gave the solar system show to my 5 year old kid and she just loved it. Now she is asking for it all the time and I have to tell her that it is downloading content so cannot watch now. [emoji3] even though they call it the innovator version, I think it is totally usable as a consumer version. Believe me I have tried explaining virtual reality and it's experience using the gear vr but it simply cannot be explained. It is really good. So in my books it is a must have..

Will report back on the usage of other apps as and when I experience them.