A visitor tries out a Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Gear Virtual-Reality (VR) headset, jointly developed by Samsung and Oculus VR Inc., at Samsung's flagship store in Seoul, South Korea, Sept. 24, 2014. Samsung will start selling its latest Galaxy Note 4 smartphone in South Korea via 3 local mobile operators from Sept. 26 and will complete global release in 140 different markets by October. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The South Korean giant Samsung shows more and more interest in the active development of such technology areas as virtual reality. Previously, the company has already released Gear VR headset, which worked in conjunction with some Samsung smart phones. But this gadget even in the soles will not do Oculus development companies, HTC and Sony. Samsung’s engineers seem have already begun to establish a new VR- device that will be able to offer users much more than a plain mobile games.
At a recent conference for developers Samsung has officially confirmed that the new virtual reality headset is definitely in development. But the most unexpected moment of the announcement was a statement that this headset will not need any smart phone or personal computer to complete the work. It turns out that the new version of the VR- headset will be able to run games on their own and completely independent from any external devices.Sax-VR-SXSW-1200
“We are developing wireless VR- devices that do not have to work in conjunction with our smart phones,” – said Indzhong Pu, head of R & D- division of the company.

According to the few details that Koreans have shared with the public, today it is known that the headset will support high-precision tracking of the position of the head of man in space. The device also allows to track hand movements and to recognize certain gestures that have to some extent been realized by Leap Motion.
Passions on the VR- market continues to heat up, and the competition is every day becoming more and more rigid. We will carefully follow the news about Samsung headset, and will immediately share with you new information.

Source: gadgetgo.info