The Gear VR is interesting, but I'm not sure $199 is worth it since the biggest cost of the Oculus is likely the display, and since that's already being paid for in the Note 4, I don't see why the shell is $199.
Also, we definitely need a big red version so that finally the View-Master can live up to it's potential!
Am I the only one baffled by them covering the camera on the Note with the GearVR shell? Or is that somewhat translucent plastic part not required? Because blocking the camera makes using it for augmented reality stuff (which to me would be one of the major positive points of integrating a phone/processor into it so that you're not as limited by wires). Just noticed that yeah that part can be left off for that. Still seems like they could've done something better.
I also think a much better thing than the Note Edge would have been a version of the Note 4 with dual cameras specifically intended for the GearVR and augmented reality tools. You could shoot 3D video and see it on the fly. Plus the 16:9 16MP sensors downsampled to 4MP would almost perfectly match the resolution so they could have come up with special video mode for that. It would make for a great "Google Maps" style mapping system where a person could wear it.
Not only that but they'd be able to do a bunch of other things that Samsung loves marketing, would boost panorama shots, would enable stuff like HTC did with One M8's dual sensors.
At least that seems like it would be a lot more interesting of a gimmick to me, and it's not like it'd cost a lot, the sensors Samsung uses are relatively chump change (actually for $199, I'd almost expect that Samsung could've shoehorned a couple of even cheaper sensors, say 4MP or so into the Gear VR itself).