A quick PSA about all the cheap plastic and cardboard phone mount headsets from someone who has tried all of them: Slotting a random phone into a head mount is

A quick PSA about all the cheap plastic and cardboard phone mount headsets from someone who has tried all of them: Slotting a random phone into a head mount is an easy path to a terrible introduction to VR. I'd liken it to watching a bootleg video of a concert on a phone. I'm not saying don't do it. Just don't judge the value of the concert experience or the VR experience based on what you get from that. With the Gear VR, Samsung proved that smartphone hardware is capable of delivering a quality VR experience. But to do make it work, Samsung and Carmack had to work together to make serious modifications to the core of Android's kernel and driver stack. To my knowledge, no other mobile device has anything close to a workable software environment.