A good treadmill for home use costs around $1,000. A treadmill for use in a health club could be ten times more expensive. Why would club owners agree to pay so much more? Because they understand that the home equipment would not withstand the heavy use in a club. The...
Virtual Reality garnered plenty of headlines this past year. Most of the coverage – from former President Barack Obama virtually visiting Yosemite National Park to Fox live streaming the Super Bowl – focused on the entertainment possibilities inherent in the technology. But many companies and organizations are taking advantage of...
Samsung's Gear VR headset is one of the most attention-grabbing in VR, particularly because it aims to merge affordability and functionality in a lightweight package that's fun to wear and use. The Korean giant unveiled its 2017 Gear VR with Controller on Sunday, a new package that strives to make...
Samsung Electronics are getting all set for Mobile World Congress 2017, Barcelona. Apart from launching their next flagship smartphone at the event, Samsung also announced that the company will be showcasing some of the best developments that are currently happening at Samsung's Creative Lab (C-Lab). Samsung also provided details that...
Samsung's Gear 360 camera works with just a few high-end Samsung smartphones like the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, the same way the Gear VR headset only supports select Samsung smartphones. Seems Samsung placed some sort of restriction of all other smartphone brands, allowing the app to support only some mostly...
Samsung is a company that likes to bundle an attractive promotion with its new tech. Earlier this year we saw them offer the Gear VR headset to customers pre-ordering the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones. Now, Samsung is back with another promotion for new eligible Galaxy...
Communications giant Huawei has revealed its vision for 2016 at its annual analyst summit (HAS), with a focus on the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality, and 5G internet. The Chinese firm was one of the first to begin 5G tests, working with Japanese wireless carrier NTT Docomo last year...
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation and Samsung Electronics America recently announced a partnership which names Samsung as the “Official Technology Partner” of the world’s largest regional theme park company. The partnership includes the debut of ground-breaking experiences coming to nine Six Flags theme parks— North America’s first Virtual Reality (VR) roller...
MWC has come and gone like every year with some major announcements from multiple brands. Samsung's Unpacked event for the launch of the Galaxy S7 turned out to be a massive hit where even the Gear S2 got some stage time from Pranav Mistry, Global Vice President of Research at...
Today, Samsung have officially unveiled two of its best selling innovative accessories - The Gear S2 smartwatch and the Gear VR headset in India and will be made available both on online and offline stores. The Gear S2 smartwatch was launched in two variants, the Gear S2 and Gear S2...
Just a couple of days earlier, we had reported a speculation of Samsung's Gear S2 and Gear VR being unveiled in India very soon. Samsung have now gone ahead of the speculations and formally invited the media for a launch event taking place on January 21. The Indian market...
This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein. Virtual reality is becoming actual reality. After years of waiting and watching as the tech elite posted awkward selfies of themselves enjoying the latest...
The technological race is a relentless one. Every manufacturer and software provider on the quest for that unique implementable idea that can capture the consumer mindset and they climb the market share ladder. Now there are a few Samsung patent filings that show what they believe their Gear watches...
A growing number of hardware makers are searching for the best way of bringing virtual reality (VR) to the masses: Current contraptions cover every price point and style from Google Cardboard to the Oculus Rift (consumer version due 2016). The AuraVisor, currently raising funds on Kickstarter, sits somewhere between the...
Today at Oculus VR’s second annual developer conference in Hollywood, Samsung senior vice president Peter Koo just announced the first consumer version of the Gear VR headset.The new version will hit the market in November—in time for the holiday shopping season. The device boasts various improvements, including a better touchpad and...
Jaunt, one of the companies at the vanguard of the coming virtual reality invasion, aims to pull away from the pack. It just might succeed, now that it's infused with a new round of investments totalling $65 million. The company says the fresh influx of money is going to enable it to "significantly...
As far as consumers are concerned, virtual reality headsets have been in the pipeline for a long, long time. Consider the Oculus Rift, one of the most well-known of the new breed—it met its Kickstarter funding goal in September 2012, but won't be on general sale before 2016, making for...
Just over a year after a successful funding campaign on Kickstarter, the Bublcam is shipping to backers. It's a 360-degree, virtual-reality-capable camera aimed at amateur enthusiasts very much like the Sphericam 2 we reported on last month.The concept isn't difficult to understand: The camera captures footage in every direction at...
The road to virtual reality just broadened this week: Samsung's Milk VR service, its virtual reality pipeline for VR videos and games, launched Gear Indie, a new channel for filmmakers to reach Gear VR headset users.The South Korean tech company is passionate about making virtual reality a consumer hit—obviously, with...
According to a Recode report, Nokia may be entering the virtual reality fray with a headset of its own. Its sources peg a product unveiling for the Finnish company next week at an exclusive event in Los Angeles. See also: Virtual-Reality Films Could Put The Whole Industry In The SpotlightFrom a...
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