A Guide to Amazing Virtual Reality Right From Your Smartphone

Okay, let’s start with a little bit of truth: I’m not the biggest gamer in the world. Honestly, it may not be fair to call me much of a gamer at all. I own a Nintendo DSi in baby blue that I pre-ordered on a whim because from seeing a couple of cool commercials and a cooking game; I also own a few new virtual reality devices now (a huge come-up, if I say so myself) and I’m a self-proclaimed Afro Samurai beast. This summer, I fell in love with Google Cardboard. Man! Who knew my phone and a cardboard Viewmaster thingy could bring so much joy. Naturally, I couldn’t stop there. When I say I, I mean we, the girlfriend and I. It’s safe to say that bae upgraded my gaming life! So we grabbed a Homido Virtual Reality headset from Amazon that can be used with both Android and iOS. The day after Christmas, I made the leap and swooped up that new Samsung Gear VR. What you’re about to get into is a novice VR gamer’s review of both the Homido and the Samsung Gear VR. I’m not including Google Cardboard much in this because I don’t think it would be fair. Let me say this, though — if you’re not much into VR yet and you want to be, spend $4.99 on a cardboard VR headset on Amazon, download the Cardboard app and get to it, boo! Okay, Izetta. Focus. First: Homido Virtual Reality Headset

Pros: You can use practically any smartphone with this head set. When I first played with it I was using my old iPhone 5s and the Cardboard app. There are a good amount of free games with this app, which is nic…