Oculus announces Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition and mobile SDK for developers

Samsung has been working on its virtual reality platform for some time, with the device finally unveiled at its Unpacked event this September. Today, Oculus has announced that it’s been collaborating with Samsung on a prototype version of the device for developers called the Gear VR Innovator Edition. Oculus, which is owned by Facebook, said today that the project began as an experiment to see if it was possible to bring VR to next-generation mobile hardware and that the team ‘blew everyone away’ in a short amount of time. The Gear VR Innovator Edition was the result; an early access...

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