Ville Magazine l Insider Access for City Lifestyle Mar/Apr 2016 / People Issue | Page 13

TECH SPECS
GOOGLE CARDBOARD ($20)
Experience VR in a cost-efficient way. Google Cardboard is a VR
platform that is built literally from cardboard in any way your
creative mind would like it to appear. Simply download compatible
apps and hold your smartphone phone in front of the lenses at the
right distance to step into a whole new world. Bonus: Google has
made it possible for every YouTube video available to be watched
in virtual reality. www.google.com/get/cardboard
SAMSUNG’S GEAR VR ($100)
If you have a Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge+, Galaxy S6, or Galaxy
S6 Edge, you are the lucky ones that get to experience the Gear VR.
Higher in quality and more comfortable than Google Cardboard,
this headset gives you a 360-degree experience while watching
Netflix, Hulu, playing games, experiencing apps, and watching
films in your own created private movie theater. As if that wasn’t
enough, Samsung has an exclusive interactive VR thriller series,
Gone. www.samsung.com/us/explore/gear-vr
FOVE ($399)
Current VR devices use the physical direction that the user is
facing to view different parts of a VR scene. FOVE is stepping it
up a notch or two with an infrared-sensor that trac