Samsung Gear VR

Devices & Integrations
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I am the founder of GlassHand VR, I’d like to find the right development group in the Smart Home initiative to discuss adding smart devices as a category in the Samsung Gear VR applications store. Our firm is particularly interested in using these devices and systems to support disabled vets.

2

I think you might be in the wrong place, this site is for SmartThings and not the Samsung Gear VR.

3

No, the comment was asking about integrating Gear VR (a Samsung VR product) with SmartThings (another Samsung product).

4

docs.smartthings.com is the place to start
@ben or @april might be able to provide addition support, but id really start with the docs first.

5

Appreciate the follow up. I am taking a both/and approach not either or.

Gear VR is a flagship product, one that I believe will be massively more successful than the Oculus Rift given it’s untethered nature and the S6 Edge being a kickass platform for VR.

So integration at the Gear VR Store level with SmartHome/SmartThings seems like a no-brainier. Especially as these products are both very useful to the disabled. I am a disabled vet and am very, very focused on Gear VR’s possibilities using Look-Select hands off control of entertainment and real world apps.

6

I have both SmartThings and GearVR. What kind of integration would you like to see? I have had some talks with others about a VR interface for SmartThings, but my ideas were more about how to get notifications about the home whilst immersed in VR. Notify when someone is a at the door for example and maybe even answer the door if you have a video doorbell.

7

SmartThings is an independent subsidiary with its own CEO so this is less of a no-brainer than it might seem.

8

My goal is to ring a bell in the engineers and marketing people’s minds at Samsung that they should already provide an SDK that handles those interfaces.

And to add a category in the Oculus and Gear VR stores so end users can access SmartThings data and run SmartHome powered apps.

Kind of amazed they haven’t already seen this as a way to sell more of both products.

9

I used to work at 3Com, corporate fiefdoms are nothing new to me. I just figured Samsung might have learned that lesson and see the obviousness of integrating the devices.