Its not the first Gear VR app to combine the internet with the HMD, but it is a great attempt at making the overall experience useful, entertaining and functional. Phonecast is a Samsung-created dashboard that gives you access to a suite of intelligently designed web-apps, browsers and popular services like YouTube. Phonecast is the latest, and best, attempt to win that battle for the mobile space. Samsung and Facebook/Oculus are on a mission: to bring the full-internet experience inside of your virtual reality headset. From the beautiful aesthetics to the intuitive UI, this is the first VR video loader that makes choosing your videos as enjoyable as watching them.Īt the whopping price of “free,” Skybox deserves a place in every Gear VR owners app library. Skybox is an in-VR 360 video player that actually seems to care about the little things. All of that great content needs a quality player to match. But now everywhere you look, amazing creators are creating high quality VR videos our past selves could only dream of. In darker times, the best 360° videos we had access too were grainy, nauseating clips of GoPro stunts and claustrophobic concerts. This is our list of the seven must-have Gear VR apps and experiences. Whether you’re a new Gear VR owner or an early adopter looking to keep things fresh, there’s never been a better time to fire it up. The only thing that hasn’t changed about the Gear VR in the last four years is its status as the best mobile VR headset on the market. What began as a somewhat clunky chunk of luminescent white plastic has transformed into a sleek, dark headset packed with a surprising amount of features including touch panels, ergonomic head straps and an honest-to-goodness motion controller. Fortunately for all of us, the Gear VR have been much more successful. The mobile headset has gone through more redesigns and updates in the past four years than the LinkedIn homepage. Since then, Marvel has released not one but two Guardians of The Galaxy films that people actually love. It may be hard to believe but its been four years since Samsung and Oculus first announced their smartphone-powered Gear VR headset.