Gear VR was a VR headset that uses a smartphone to create a VR gaming setup.

It is an interesting idea, as smartphones have the 6 axis gyroscope for real time motion tracking, they have the screen resolution, and are powerful enough these days to run the games.

But Gear VR relied on Android's built in VR support. For some reason Google removed it with Android 12, so the Gear VR headset and other similar devices are all now dead.

I got a free Gear VR headset with my older Samsung S8 phone. I played around with it at the time and thought it was cool, but never really bothered usb it much since. My old S8 is still in great condition but not used since I upgraded. Might see if Gear VR still works with it as it won't be running Android 12.
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