HTC Vive Pro (2018) vs Samsung Gear VR

The HTC Vive Pro (2018) makes for a good, if unremarkable, VR Headset for people with a $1,500 budget.

The Samsung Gear VR, however, is merely mediocre at its $19 asking price, when compared to similarly priced products, and won't satisfy the needs of most people.

In either case, we suggest that you first take a look at some other options at the $1,500 and $17 price points before committing to one of these - it's likely that you'll be able to find some better alternatives.

If you're still interested in learning more about the HTC Vive Pro (2018) and Samsung Gear VR, however, we wrote a summary of what we could find about them:

The HTC Vive Pro (2018) has done really well in a number of roundups conducted by sources that perform their own hands-on testing, such as Techradar, iMore, and PCWorld - it was awarded the "Ranked 1 out of 7" title by Techradar, "Ranked 2 out of 2" by iMore, and "Ranked 2 out of 6" by PCWorld. That's high praise from reliable sources.

Moving on to the Samsung Gear VR: no sources that perform reliable and objective hands-on testing have included it in their VR Headset roundups, which usually means that a product doesn't make for a good purchase.

Lastly, we tried to do a direct HTC Vive Pro (2018) vs. Samsung Gear VR comparison of review ratings between these two products, but couldn't find any review scores for the Samsung Gear VR.

Compared to all other VR Headsets on the market, however, the HTC Vive Pro (2018) performed great. When averaged out, it earned a rating of 7.7 out of 10, which is much better than the 7.5 review average of VR Headsets in general.