Samsung broadcasts Feb. 21 Galaxy Unpacked adventure, Teaser Suggests focal point On gear VR And New S7 Line - TechCrunch

Samsung is able to blow their own horns some new Galaxy phones once more, and it's additionally fitting overwhelmingly clear that the company believes virtual reality is a key to its future cell strategy.

Samsung just despatched out invitations and released a teaser video for the business's Galaxy Unpacked 2016 adventure where it is anticipated to unveil its new Galaxy S7 instruments.

The teaser actually areas a big emphasis on the gear VR platform, which suggests that both the new S7 line will work with the present purchaser headsets or, greater doubtless, that the team at Samsung is planning to unlock an updated equipment VR headset (or each).

The tagline for the video is "Get able to rethink what a phone can do," and with the entire marketing for this event specializing in the apparatus VR, it's no longer ludicrous to are expecting a cell replace that provides vastly to the headset's functionality. a touch that individuals have been dissecting from the teaser contains the instance the place the area leans ahead and reaches against the glowing cube, which many are speculating as a clue that Samsung *may* have at last cracked positional tracking, a characteristic that has been enormously absent from the equipment VR's characteristic set (and all cellphone-based mostly VR to date).

as far as the Galaxy phones themselves, most rumors out now are suggesting the S7 and S7 side gadgets will seemingly see greater interior updates instead of finished redesigns due to the fact it become just closing August that the Galaxy contraptions bought complete facelifts.

Evan Blass over at challenge Beat is suggesting that the S7 line will see the return of one of the favorite Galaxy customizations taken from clients in last 12 months's Galaxy replace, the microSD slot. different upgrades may consist of water resistance and better means batteries for the smartphone line.

Chipsets being rumored for the equipment encompass the business's personal Exynos eight Octa 8890 chip or Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820. What's interesting about the Snapdragon chip in selected, is the principal emphasis Qualcomm has positioned on its VR chops, mainly noting on the web page that the GPU and CPU "are in a position to producing photorealistic graphics for console-exceptional gaming and subsequent-era digital fact apps."

The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2016 event at the cellular World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday, February 21 and should be available for reside streaming on the enterprise's Samsung cell YouTube channel.

This will be a main experience for the company's flagship mobilephone line, however might also extra be an enormous event for the company's digital reality ambitions.

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