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Now, Samsung takes a step to fix that with Samsung Internet for Gear VR, a web browser that lets you browse content on the Internet directly from your Gear VR instead of downloading it onto your phone beforehand.
Chan-Woo Park, Samsung’s vice president of Product Strategy, explained the new tech in a statement. We would also expect websites to start hosting 3D-ready content, just like the 360-degree YouTube videos, in the near future, making it easier for viewers to jump in the experience, instead of having to download and sync the content with various apps first.
It means you should be able to wear this a little longer while gaming and watching 360-films.
Another feature Samsung Internet has added (but not made default) is a gaze option that allows you to put a 3, 6, or 7 second timer on your gaze reticle so things are automatically selected when you look at them within the specified amount of time. This feature allows the user to choose menus just by looking at them, without having to touch your controller or touchpad.
Provided by The Verge Samsung Gear VR Internet Web browsers and other desktop interfaces are a common experimental genre for VR developers, from Virtual Desktop which translates the whole Windows interface into VR to JanusVR, which turns the internet into a series of walkable rooms. Samsung’s VR browsing software supports familiar Quick Access, Bookmarks and Tab Manager Features. Samsung Internet is one of a number of official applications that Oculus VR and Samsung have released onto the device recently.
The latest edition of the Gear VR is compatible with the Galaxy S6, S6 edge and S6 edge+. An app called Virtual Desktop, which transforms the OS into virtual reality. The web browser app, which is now in beta, is for people who own the Korean tech firm’s smartphone-powered virtual reality headset. The Samsung browser, which goes by the name of Internet for Gear VR, also handles HTML5 media playback.
