However, the Gear VR clone has are some crucial limitations. See Also: News Bits – Samsung’s Gear VR International Rollout Begins With 4 EU Territories Still, Mark Schramm showed that is indeed possible to access the Oculus Store without an official Gear VR, which is definitely worth applauding. Because Open Gear is essentially only taking the information learned from the researchers and developers within Oculus, all the credit should go back to Oculus for the heavy lifting. It is instead only meant to show that developers can clone the headset and test their apps while they wait for the official headset to get shipped to their doors. (Spoiler: the real Gear VR still wins).Īlthough this is a cool project that can allow developers without the Gear VR headset to begin testing their apps, it’s in no way meant to ‘compete’ with Samsung’s Gear VR. It is a joyfully fun experience to watch. In it Schramm and a few other VR enthusiasts test out the tracking differences between the two devices by using the pass through camera. There is a great video of a ping pong game between the official Gear VR and the cloned version. Since then, a couple of other developers across the globe have created their own Gear VR clones.ĭylan Watkins (co-founder of OCVR) shows the pass-through working on a GearVR clone In addition, all the steps were posted on a website aptly called. Schramm documented the entire process through some videos.
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With the Note 4 placed into Cardboard, and a strap attached, a Gear VR clone, capable of testing VR applications without Gear VR itself, was born. After that, the board was mounted to a Google Cardboard VR smartphone adapter.
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This was done with the help of already established Github code that took information learned from the open-sourcing of the Oculus DK1 headset. See also: Rev VR Podcast (Ep.88): Introducing OpenGear, A Gear VR Alternative, By Developer Mark Schrammįrom there, Schramm ordered a developer board covered in sensors (including an IMU) and flashed firmware onto it.
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Surprisingly, he found that the phone correctly recognized the headtracking sensor in the DK1. He began by stripping down one of his extra DK1 headsets, removing the controller box and connecting it to the Note 4. So instead of waiting for Samsung and Oculus to figure out an international release date, Schramm started experimenting with other possible options. Mark Schramm (co-creator of VR Bits) was sitting at home one day at the end of 2014 wondering how he was going to test his company’s new Gear VR demos. That was at least until a developer in Australia plugged an Oculus Rift DK1 controller box into the Galaxy Note 4 (the phone that powers the Gear VR headset). Many of them have their virtual reality applications ready to go, yet they have no way to test them without a way to purchase the headset. International developers have been waiting patiently to buy Samsung’s Gear VR mobile headset internationally ever since the US release on December 8th.