Samsung Gear VR : A New Gear Hitting Market Soon With Independent HoloLens Like Device, Work On Lowering Prices & Improving Aesthetics Already In Progress!

This is a great news for all Samsung and virtual reality fans. Samsung Electronics, as has been hinted, is working on two different virtual reality and augmented digital reality systems. The first one will be an upgrade to the original Samsung Gear VR headset, while the second one will be a mixed reality gadget almost similar to Microsoft HoloLens or Magic Leap. 

According to the Verge, a new Samsung Gear VR apparently "will be presented in a short time." The Samsung Electronic vice president Sung-Hoon Hong has recently made an appearance in the Virtual Reality Summit in California. In the summit talk titled "Future of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality and Samsung's New Challenge", Hong said that Samsung is working on a "light field engine" that can produce "really, really realistic" holograms.

"It looks really touchable," he said. It was also his belief that augmented reality has a better market potential and technical advancement scope, as compared to the virtual reality segment. The technology should apparently appear at the 2017 Mobile World Congress in February. These words were also similar to the statement made by Tim Cook in February this year. 

It is also important to note that Samsung has previously been able to successfully patent a holographic TV. However, Hong is much more interested in advancing in the wearable gadget series. Samsung is probably going to work with other companies to actually make these plans a reality.

Hong also mentioned about the Florida startup called Magic Leap that works on mixed reality, however, no concrete announcements have been made by the companies yet. The original Samsung Gear VR was developed by Samsung in partnership with the virtual reality company Oculus.

We are awaiting the time when commercial augmented reality will exist in a full-fledged manner. it currently has limited and specialized uses only. Slowly, we expect that there will be headsets developed which actually produce holograms in a life-like manner. The continuous advancements may also be able to help with the heavy price tag and help the headsets ergonomically. 

Stay tuned to SWR for more updates on Samsung Gear VR specs, price and release date.