When you hear "VR" your first thought may be of Oculus or Vive, but as Superdata reports, Samsung was actually the biggest vendor of VR headsets in 2016 based on units shipped - a whopping 4.5 million of the 6.3 million devices sold were Gear VRs. We guess it helps that the company has been handing them out for free with various Galaxy flagships. In contrast, an Oculus Rift or Vive headset is in the hundreds of dollars. Google's Daydream is also quite affordable, but it came out late in the game. In 2017, we'll see - the list of supported phones keeps growing and Daydream is cheaper than...
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