Samsung’s next mobile VR headset has inside-out tracking

Samsung’s next mobile VR headset will feature inside-out tracking. Samsung has confirmed this in a video of its own developer conference that has appeared online. The South Korean manufacturer works together with Intel, among others.

In the video, discovered by GSMArena, a Samsung developer says the upcoming VR headset will track movement with sensors in the glasses themselves. The glasses can also track the movements of the controllers without the help of external sensors, which will provide 6DoF. As a result, the glasses do not require a connection to other devices or a PC.

With the upcoming VR headset, Samsung says it wants to combine the advantages of previous VR headsets. These include the Gear VR, the mobile VR headset where Galaxy S and Galaxy Note phones provide the screen and computing power, and the HMD Odyssey, a headset that hangs on a PC and works with Windows Mixed Reality.

Those advantages, according to the manufacturer, are that the Gear VR is cheap and fully mobile, while the Odyssey is more powerful and has more versatile controllers. It is still unknown when Samsung will present the new VR headset, what exactly it can do and how much it will cost. A few months ago, images emerged of a prototype of an ‘ExynosVR’ headset from Samsung. The upcoming VR headset will probably be a further development of those prototypes. Samsung said last year it was already working on a VR headset that works without a phone.