Samsung’s new Odyssey+ headset could fix its muddled VR vision

As one of the world’s most technologically innovative companies, Samsung should be leading the pack in VR — one of the decade’s top transformative technologies. Instead, it has largely let Microsoft and Facebook determine its role in the VR space, leading to its current situation as an also-ran.

If I was betting on whether that will change anytime soon, an FCC leak of the company’s new Odyssey+ VR headset (discovered by RoadtoVR) would point to “no.” Most of the specs are staying the same as its prior, Windows-dependent Odyssey model: Each eye still gets a 3.5-inch screen with 1,440 by 1,600 resolution, combining for a 110-degree field of view, and AMOLED technology will be used to guarantee dark blacks and rich colors.