More VR options brought to Android by Huawei

Smartphone-makers Huawei is bringing more options to virtual reality by breaking into the market with a new Huawei VR game headset.

Announced today in Shanghai, the Huawei virtual reality helmet, unlike PC and gaming, console-tethered virtual reality headsets, will function like the Samsung Gear VR.

Simply insert your Huawei P9, P9 Plus, or Mate 8 handset into the device and put it on your face.
Huawei made no mention of price or when its phone owners could expect the VR headset to be available, other than that it will be some time this year. Android Authority thinks it will likely be “this season.”

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Huawei has never been shy about directly competing with other hardware makers.

Back in September, its Mate S announcement showed audience members a phone that could use its brand of Force Touch-like pressure sensitivity to weigh items.

Apple re-branded Force Touch to 3D Touch when it was released on the iPhone 6S and incorporated OS-level quick actions–like pushing forcefully to summon the application switcher or preview iMessage windows.

Huawei’s virtual reality solution is the first to make use of the USB-C. Like Samsung’s Gear VR, plugging your phone into the device gives the headset all it needs to track the motion of your head and serve up a fictional reality.

WIth Huawei’s line of flagship phones only offering 1080 pixel displays, the P9 and Mate 8 devices won’t offer up the same visual clarity as what you’ll see on a device like the Gear VR.

Samsung’s phones offer 2K level of pixel density–1440 by 2560 pixels–on their phone screens.

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