Was anyone able to get HMD orientation tracking working without loading the s6 into the Gear VR?

[PerseusSmith]

Was anyone able to get HMD orientation tracking working without loading the s6 into the Gear VR?

With developer mode enabled, I am unable to look around rotating the s6. Does the sensor tracking require the gear vr - or can you enable Dev Mode and use Cardboard?

[aussieburger]

That's not really possible since the tracking is in the headset itself.

Only option would be to use the simple hmd but then you need to do all the camera orientation stuff yourself which would probably have a different behaviour from the gearvr. Quickest way to test is on the DK2 as the tracking is pretty similar (expect for the positional forward and back tracking) and test all performance related stuff on the device itself.