Holy cow!

Merlin5 · 11 Mar 2016 at 15:04

I just received a Gear VR and set it up. My god, it's amazing isn't it?? :eek:

I've only looked at a handful of static 360 photos of places in the USA so far, and it's jaw dropping how much depth and full size it gives. You really are transported there. It's all low res and not very sharp which is a pity, but nevertheless, I almost started walking up a path towards a door in a photo then remembered, it's not real

The headset tend to push on the nose bridge of my glasses which is a bit uncomfortable. Can't imagine how mind blowing the high res Rift and Vive will be. I haven't looked in the oculus store yet, is there a roller coaster ride I can try?

If I buy the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive will I have any chance of being able to run it on my laptop? It's a 2011 Dell Vostro 3550 with i5 2410M 2.3Ghz and AMD 6630M and 4GB ram.

MrZippo · 11 Mar 2016 at 15:19

Excellent, you should try the 360 videos, some of them really are great.

Not sure about your laptop but give the steam vr test benchmark a go
https://steamdb.info/app/323910/

ttaskmaster · 11 Mar 2016 at 15:45

Gear VR sucks.... mainly because it works with every Galaxy phone except mine!!

dirtybeatfreak · 11 Mar 2016 at 15:51

A friend at work just bought one too and I just had a go. We watched the David Attenborough (sp?) with a Dino' video. That was pretty cool. I can't wait for the Rift and Vive even more now

Merlin5 · 11 Mar 2016 at 15:51

MrZippo said:
Excellent, you should try the 360 videos, some of them really are great.

Not sure about your laptop but give the steam vr test benchmark a go
https://steamdb.info/app/323910/

Thanks MrZ, had to install Steam and am now downloading that app.
I'm betting it says one of two things. That I can't run VR, or, that I can but it won't run very fast or smooth.

Hutchy · 11 Mar 2016 at 16:02

Where's the best place to pick up a gear VR? From googling they are either the right price and sold out, or over £100.

Nismo · 11 Mar 2016 at 16:47

Zero chance of Rift or Vive VR with a laptop that doesn't either have a desktop class GPU, or an external solution.

Merlin5 · 11 Mar 2016 at 17:15

Nismo said:
Zero chance of Rift or Vive VR with a laptop that doesn't either have a desktop class GPU, or an external solution.

Looks that way

I'm using the AMD graphics card but it's still saying intel family.

Hmm, my desktop, which hasn't been used for ages, has an AMD 5850 extreme and a Phenom 550BE. I don't suppose they'll cut it either. Gonna have to upgrade.

ukxenon · 12 Mar 2016 at 06:38

Gear r is ok I use mine with my note 4 and to watch movies

kration · 12 Mar 2016 at 09:43

I tried Gear at my local Samsung store and was distinctly unimpressed. The screen door was really obvious and I didn't get any sense of depth. I wasn't expecting much as I know it's based on looking at a standard phone screen, but I hope the Vive is better...

Merlin5 · 12 Mar 2016 at 10:34

Depends what you watch. Many 360 videos I watched are terrible quality. But I downloaded a couple of free things from the Oculus store that are very impressive. 'Invasion!' which is a short CGI animation with a huge white rabbit, a spaceship and aliens. And an interactive animation called 'Rose'. The sense of depth, size and distance on these is really incredible. I don't understand how so many people are unimpressed with the Gear. Looking past the low res, the experience is still jaw dropping..