Strap a phablet to your face: Oculus VR releases mobile dev kit

Oculus VR wants developers to start making games for the Samsung Gear VR.

Facebook’s virtual-reality company just unleashed its mobile software-development kit on its website, and you can pick it up now to start building software for mobile VR. While Oculus has made headlines for nearly two years thanks to its powerful Rift headset, it has started heavily pushing the mobile variant in recent months. Samsung Gear VR is essentially a holster that turns the Galaxy Note 4 into the display of a head-mounted device. Samsung just started preselling the Gear VR today for $200 or $250 bundled with a Bluetooth controller.