GearVR

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with GearVR, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Drivers struggle to figure out how to operate the new shifters2025-03-15
Inserting the phone into the headset is annoying enough that the commenter left it in place2017-10-11
Wide field of view with head-tracked lag makes long coding sessions uncomfortable2016-07-29
Headstrap falls apart half the time it is put on2016-05-19
Gear review sites are outdated, ugly, and hard to navigate2013-11-26
Hard to keep gears in the same plane when connecting them2013-07-31