The Gear VR, which was surprisingly great.

We got a great private demo of Oculus’ Crescent Bay prototype—the video for that is coming a bit later today—but the second half of our closed-door Oculus briefing had to do with the Gear VR. I didn’t have high expectations for my time with the device, but it was surprisingly good—far, far better than I imagined it was going to be. The head tracking was free of any lag or skipping or juddering, and it looked great.

The Note 4’s 2560x1440 screen made for an even higher-resolution VR experience than my Rift DK2, and although the pixel grid was visible, it was much less visible than on the DK2 (though it wasn’t as clear as the Crescent Bay headset).

At $199 and with the requirement of already owning your own Galaxy Note 4, it’s not exactly an impulse buy, but it’s also not the silly little side-project we initially thought it to be. We walked away pretty darn impressed.