Samsung did not have many surprises to be announced in the course of his Unpacked2016 event held Sunday, February 21 in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, having unveiled two new Galaxy Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge introducing little important. A surprise but ‘there was after the event, when he took the stage nothing less than Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook. Why?
For the journalists in the room was asked at one point of the press conference wearing the Samsung Gear VR helmet that was provided at the side of their chair to watch a virtual reality demo, and when it came to remove the viewers because the movie was over here appear on stage in the flesh Mark Zuckerberg. The CEO of Facebook rose on that stage to talk about the collaboration that was born between Facebook and Samsung for the development of reality ‘virtual , Samsung with its project that now includes the Gear VR viewer and camera Gear 360, and Facebook with Oculus projects, the company that bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion.
“to date, that of Gear [Samsung] is the best virtual reality experience on the mobile “Zuckerberg said,” thanks to the union of the best Samsung hardware with the best software Oculus “. Facebook CEO then wanted to emphasize that Facebook has all the credentials to be the right platform for the sharing of videos shot by users at 360 degrees thanks to tools like the new camera Gear 360 announced by the Korean manufacturer just moments before on the same stage. To date have been shared over 20 thousand 360 videos on Facebook, Zuckerberg said, revealing other interesting statistics such as the availability of more than 200 games and apps nell’Oculus Store and videos that have been seen on the Samsung Gear VR to over one million hours.
on stage Mark Zuckerberg spoke for several minutes about the vision that Facebook and Samsung share for the future of reality ‘virtual. Born for this division “Social VR” Samsung, a new team that will work closely with Facebook and Oculus to explore the future of social interaction in virtual reality.
You can ‘say with certainty that the real surprise of the Samsung press conference at Mobile World Congress 2016 has therefore been the arrival on stage of the CEO of Facebook, and have left a bitter taste the two new Galaxy S7 (see features here).
Recall that the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift is preorder for $ 599 with deliveries commencing in March. Gear VR Samsung is instead on sale for several months at a price of 99 euro.
In the player below you can see the entire press conference by Samsung, but if you want to get down to minutes that took the Mark Zuckerberg can move the stage 46 minutes.
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2016 Live Stream (Official Replay)
Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 Edge preview
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