BANGALORE: Facebook Inc’s Oculus and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled a new version of Gear VR virtual reality headset for $99, half the price of the previous ‘Innovator Edition’, and said the product would be available in the United States in time for Black Friday and globally shortly after.

The headset is 22 per cent lighter than the previous version and will work with all of Samsung’s 2015 line of smartphones, including the Galaxy Note 5, Edge Plus, S6 and S6 Edge, Peter Koo, senior vice president of Samsung Mobile, said at an Oculus conference on Thursday.

Oculus also said it was partnering with Netflix Inc, Hulu, Vimeo and Amazon Inc-owned Twitch, among others, to bring video content and live streaming to virtual reality over next few months.