The US weekly The New Yorker has launched an app to read the magazine using the virtual reality of Samsung Gear VR: VR wearing this viewer, you can bring up the newspaper in his hands, and then you can browse the virtual pages and read the contents.
The VR technology has improved a lot in a few months, and now you can already browse virtual newspapers that magically appear in our hands. But this is just one example of the kind of experience that a bunch of virtual reality as the Gear VR of Samsung will be able to offer us consumers.
It ‘can see how the app The New Yorker to read the newspaper in virtual reality in the player below. “You think you know what is reading? Think again. Here is a test of the latest innovation of the New Yorker,” reads the description of the video.
With the latest models of VR helmets , screens have become more resolute, and the latency of interaction with the virtual world has been reduced to less than 20 milliseconds. The new Gear VR announced by Samsung in recent days, which goes on sale in November priced at $ 99, is already defined by the experts as “one of the best experiences of VR available,” he writes Mashable . The last Oculus Rift using the display of a Galaxy Note 3, with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, while the Galaxy Note 4 compatible with the new Gear VR provides a display with a higher resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels.
Two years ago at CES we could see the first prototypes of virtual reality helmets, with the promise by the developers that a first version for consumers would soon come on the market, when there are enough content to be able to sell the VR technology. This not to repeat the mistakes already with 3D technologies and 4k course on domestic television sets too early, when still 3D and 4K content does not exist.
With the VR technology you want and then proceed to step, respecting timing of technological evolution and the development of experiences, in terms of content, delivered through the helmets of the future. The Gear VR Samsung which goes on sale later this year will enjoy a lot of content, but Samsung has already announced partnerships in the world of film and TV such as Lionsgate, Netflix, Hulu, and 20th Century Fox, among others , as well as partnership in the gaming world with the support of the game Minecraft.
The app developed by the ‘New Yorker’ will hopefully be taken as an example for other newspapers, because an idea is really cute and l ‘ inevitable evolution of digital editions of newspapers , who are taking more and more popularity on smartphones and tablets. There will also always be those who prefer to ‘paper’ traditional, partly because the VR technology forces people to turn the street with a helmet rather bulky, which does not pass unnoticed for sure (just look at the video above to see this).
According to analysts of Digi-Capital , augmented reality and virtual reality technologies will begin to be seriously considered by consumers by 2020, the year in which there is a value to these markets combined 150 billion dollars.
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