Astrid ! We need to send an intimidating and mysterious letter to someone ! Make it a turkey . What ? <| sep |> How do you euthanize a giant swimming whale ? I have no idea how shallow the hudson is as well <| sep |> Poorly written and uninformed article . So many misguided points . As of now the Gear VR only works with selected Samsung phones . um yeah , now and forever likely . It ' s already seen a second generation and STILL only supports Samsung flagship phones . Daydream will support any device that meets the minimum requirements . That means a whole LOT of upcoming phones will be supported . It ' s not exclusive to the Pixel by any means , and in fact , Motorola has 2 phones that are officially Daydream ready so that right there makes more phones ready for Daydream than the Gear VR . You don ' t have to carry around an extra controller . The headset comes with a slot for it . If you ' re carrying the headset , you ' ve got the controller already and the benefits of the controller , the different uses . Honestly one of the most important pieces of the Daydream platform . Daydream View is considerably SMALLER than the Gear VR . I don ' t know what fantasy the writer lives in to say the Daydream is bigger but , it ' s not , at all . Don ' t get me wrong . I love the Gear VR . The article didn ' t talk at all about the software and hardly mentioned the Gear VR ' s builtin hardware versus Daydreams motion controller .