Well you're wrong, is all. I am fairly open minded about things, its you who seems to have their mind made up based on what 'Engadget said' or whatever. And yes, please show me examples that prove Samsung is not interested in advancing VR. I await a bunch of irrelevant and unrelated 'sources' about things outside the sphere of VR that dont prove anything.Oh alright.
Engadget leaked every little detail about this VR since a few months back, and they explicitly said that Samsung is making this VR to beat others to the competition.
Samsung is hardly considered visionary, or having much interest in advancing the VR for that matter. Their whole R&D team seems to hinge on rumors and future products that are about to come out. I can show you many examples of what I am talking about.
But hey, I am sure you have made your mind regarding Carmack and Oculus VR, so what I say here may be of little effect.
We know this isn't a consumer-ready product. Oculus made that quite clear.
And Oculus have relied on Samsung to deliver displays for them. The DK2 has a Note 3 display, while the CV1 is highly likely to have this Note 4 display(but with 90hz+ refresh rate). Working with them to help get a mobile VR headset out in exchange for the custom Note 4 displays is win-win-win for everybody. It is not them 'selling out'.
I'm sure Samsung do want to beat 'the competition' to market, but do realize who 'the competition' are. Its not the Oculus Rift, nor Sony's Morpheus. Its anybody else who wants to do mobile VR. And beating the competition to market isn't even that crucial when they've got Oculus themselves working hard on mobile VR integration. That gives them the edge no matter what.