Gear 360: Samsung will reportedly offer affordable VR camera

In three weeks the most important mobile phone trade fair of the year begins in Barcelona, the Mobile World Congress. Once again Samsung will use the opportunity to its new flagship Smartphones present, this Time they will be called the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. In addition, but it’ll be something completely New, according to the usually well-informed tech blog “Sammobile”. In addition to mobile phones, a new Virtual Reality camera will be the Star of the Gear 360.

Samsung is addressing the core problem, the power to create the young VR industry: content. Because content is, what is lacking of the virtual reality. Some games, there are some useful Apps, a couple of VR movies. Those who deal with the topic, but is that. A cheap VR camera could change that, at least in the private and Hobby area. Although there is still no price information for the Samsung device, with a view to the technical data, you should not be very expensive.

There is a need compared to the previously shown devices, some compromises to make. Both Google as well as Samsung camera projects Project Jump, and Project Beyond your shots with 16 arranged in a circle and cameras. The new model from Samsung, however, will do supposedly with only two cameras, each covering a 180-degree wide field of view. Perfect image quality will not be so, in spite of double Full HD resolution achievable.

For the new camera will not do any good, apparently, not enough. Fully controlled, it could be just a new App, reported “Sammobile”. Which, in turn, could give, it may be only for the new Galaxy S7. In fact, it would not be unusual idea, to tie a new product to another, in order to boost sales.

About the new Samsung flagship, the Galaxy S7, it seems, meanwhile, pretty much everything that is Important to be known. For weeks, technology blogs on a race about who can bring about the apparently not-well-kept secret Samsung Smartphone in experience. The Blogger Even Pale shows even photos, to see where the Galaxy S7 and the S7 Edge are supposed to be.

Accordingly, the S7 will have a 5.2-inch screen, while the S7 Edge to edge with a rounded screen – 5.5 inches to measure. The resolution is as with the S6 and S6 Edge at 2560 times by 1440 pixels. A special feature will be a kind of Always-on function to make content like the time and notifications, even when at rest visible.

As a drive Samsung used depending on the country, different Quad – core and OCTA-core processors. The memory is supposed to be equipped with four gigabytes well as a mass storage device 32 and 64 gigabytes of choice, which can be expanded via the memory card. An unexpected novelty is that in the Galaxy-S7-devices, a 12-Megapixel camera to plug in. In the current S6 Smartphones, it is still a 16-Megapixel model.

Like the new Galaxy phones look like, and what you can actually and whether there is the Gear 360 is Samsung but only at the 21. February betrayed. On the eve of the Mobile World Congress, the group held its Unpacked-called press conference in Barcelona. We are and will inform you of the novelties.