{"id":3253,"date":"2016-06-28T08:34:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2023-06-14T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T00:41:24","slug":"gear-vr-review-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=3253","title":{"rendered":"Gear VR Review Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was August 26th, 2015 at a VR film festival in Seattle, WA. I figured, &#8220;Why not. I bet the audio is bad and I can make contacts&#8221;. Mind blown! I saw great potential in what VR could be and how I could contribute in the audio sense. The bigger picture was an epiphany from discovering a technology that would allow me to do with sound what I had always conceived but could never do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward to current time and the day I get my first VR goggles. While I would want the Vive, the Gear VR is way more affordable if you have a Samsung phone. I didn&#8217;t have the phone, but you don&#8217;t have to use it as a phone to enjoy VR. So I bought a used S6 on eBay and waited for delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Image_Samsung-Gear-VR_R-Perspective-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3254\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Image_Samsung-Gear-VR_R-Perspective-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Image_Samsung-Gear-VR_R-Perspective-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Image_Samsung-Gear-VR_R-Perspective-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was August 26th, 2015 at a VR film festival in Seattle, WA. I figured, &#8220;Why not. I bet the audio is bad and I can make contacts&#8221;. Mind blown! I saw great potential in what VR could be and how I could contribute in the audio sense. The bigger picture was an epiphany from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=3253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gear VR Review Day 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8561,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions\/8561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}