Samsung today announced at its developer conference in San Francisco the Gear VR Innovator Edition, a new 3D-capturing 360-degree camera called Project Beyond, a new S Pen with its own SDK and the SIMBAND fitness wearable for developers. The Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition will be available in the U.S. early December.

Powered by Oculus, it is leveraging the Galaxy Note 4’s 5.7-inch high resolution Quad HD Super AMOLED display and allows developers to design 360° experiences. In addition to an entertainment experience, Gear VR Innovator Edition has potential for uses for enterprise, including realistic training simulation for vehicles or aircraft, 360° views of scans for healthcare, and interactive learning experiences for the classroom.

Alongside the launch of Gear VR Innovator Edition, Oculus will make the Oculus Mobile SDK for Gear VR available now to all developers who register at developer.oculus.com/.

Samsung Gear VR will automatically download special Oculus software to the Note 4 when connected for the first time. The Oculus software includes:

• Oculus Home – Your VR home screen and content discovery center, which includes a Samsung section
• Oculus Store – An application that lets you browse and download new content from the Oculus platform
• Oculus Cinema – A VR movie theater and cinema where you can watch your favorite movies in an immersive virtual environment
• Oculus 360° Videos and Photos

Gear VR is equipped with a touch pad, back button, and focus adjustment wheel, while its lightweight materials make it comfortable for users to wear.

Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition will be available in Frost White and at Samsung.com, along with the Gamepad.

Samsung also today previewed a new camera called Project Beyond, which is a 3D-capturing 360-degree camera designed to capture videos and stream them on the Gear VR. The camera is a black disc about six inches across, with stereoscopic cameras around its edges. Mounted on a tripod, the cameras capture the surroundings in 3D and beam the images wirelessly to Samsung’s Gear VR virtual reality headset.

Project Beyond uses patent-pending stereoscopic interleaved capture and 3D -aware stitching technology to capture the scene just like the human eye, but in a form factor that is very compact. The reconstruction system recreates the view geometry in the same way that the human eyes see, according to Samsung.

The combination allows you to see any location in the world from your living room, as long as there’s a wireless broadband connection there and of course, a Project Beyond camera.

Although Samsung won’t have the camera for sale immediately, the content generated from Project Beyond will be available to every Gear VR user immediately.

Samsung also introduced Samsung Flow, a technology that lets users shift activities between different-size Samsung devices. You can look up directions in a mapping app on a tablet, for instance, then "flow" that information to a smartwatch when you're ready to hit the road. It can also transfer phone and video calls between devices, and it looks similar to Apple’s Continuity introduced with iOS 8.

Samsung SIMBAND, first announced by the S. Korean company six months ago, is available to be ordered by developers today. In May, Samsung's Strategy and Innovation Center unveiled the first version of the wearable, which contained a host of sensors for measuring advanced health characteristics, as well as a cloud-based software platform called Samsung Architecture for Multimodal Interactions (SAMI) that can collect sensor data from the device for analysis.

The wrist-worn device looks a lot like the Gear S but it features additional modular sensors that can be reconfigured. Samsung says that the SIMBAND should work well with the new bio processor that the company announced today as well. The processor will help developers incorporate more advanced health monitoring in their wearables.

Samsung also introduced software development kits for the sectors, including the Samsung Digital Health SDK, a beta SDK for Samsung Smart Home and an S Pen SDK.

The Samsung Digital Health platform will work in concert with Samsung's cloud server and accounts to track your personal health info. Samsung hopes to build relationships with healthcare providers so that those wearing those fitness devices can better communicate their data to their doctors.

The New Look SDK allows developers to take advantage of the curved screen of the Note Edge phablet, and a Gear S SDK lets app makers create software that applies to the smartwatch's standalone features.

Samsung 's new S Pen has double the sensitivity of the current S Pen, recognizes speed, tilt and rotation and features advanced editing. It will also understand and renders life-like strokes so your handwriting looks like your handwriting. The Advanced S Pen will work on the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Edge.

During the event, Eric Anderson, Samsung vice president of content and product solutions, said the company will be rolling out the Tizen operating system across its product portfolio in 2015. That includes televisions and other items. Currently, Tizen runs most of Samsung's smartwatches, including the Gear 2 and Gear S.

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