Samsung Gear VR with Controller Review

Introduction
Last summer, Samsung introduced an upgrade to the Gear VR headset for its Galaxy smartphones. In contrast to the simple lens-and-frame Google Cardboard-type viewers that were the VR standard with other smartphones, Samsung's platform upped the ante with higher-end headset hardware, incorporating features like adjustable focus, input buttons, and a side-mounted touchpad.

With 2016's new Gear VR, Samsung aimed to keep ahead of the rest of the industry, delivering improvements like a wider field of view for its lenses, revamped, easier to use touchpad, and new USB Type-C hardware ...