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The technology and the general category of headmounted displays have come a long

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way. It's genuinely impressive now, but there's always been one thing it's been

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missing. Brand integration with the Batman

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universe. Thankfully, Ray Neo has solved

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that problem with the Ray Neo Air4 Pro

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Batman edition and Joker edition.

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Phew. And thank you to Reineo for sponsoring this video so I can have this

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experience. Now, Ray Neo announced the Air4 Pro at CES back in January, but

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they are shipping now in these special Batman versions and nonBatman versions.

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Although, once you see these, I don't know if you're going to want that one.

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Just let me show you. Okay, so first off, these packages. Very nice. Kind of

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like a a fabric. Oh no, what's happening to Batman? He's breaking apart. Thanos

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snapped him. But inside the box Oh. Oh,

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there's the mask. Okay, so this is the glasses themselves. And this is the the

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Batman mask. Okay. So, this is the bat

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shade that we're going to mount on to

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the headmounted display glasses here. But first, we need to get an

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understanding of what we are mounting that thing onto. Uh, so let's take a

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look at the glasses themselves. Now, it's been a little while since I took a

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look at some headmounted display glasses, and my opinion on the whole

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category has kind of changed. At first, I was hoping that they would be more

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like compact VR displays. Then I was like, "Oh, maybe I want them to be kind

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of AR, so like they're glasses you can see into the real world with." But I

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feel like the category has really come into its own as, you know, a way to

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experience a big giant high-res HDR

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display without actually connecting to a monitor or a TV. You can have it with

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you in any configuration you want. And this is where the Raino Air4 Pro

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supposedly really shines. We'll take a look at that a little bit later, but

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first let's take a look at the exterior of the device. First things first, let's

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remove the protective film on the actual

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displays there. Nice. We got some fairly large squishy

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pads on the for the nose pads there, which I appreciate. I appreciate extra

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padding for my schnoz. Got a wear detection sensor there. On the bottom,

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we have quite a few buttons going on. We got what looks like a volume rocker over

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here next to a some uh some kind of settings button maybe and then a

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brightness rocker on the other side. Up here we have what must be speakers

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on either arm. On the opposite side of the arms on the top here we got what

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look like vents of some kind. On the

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rear of the right glasses arm, we have a USBC port for charging and data and

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display because that's how you're going to get stuff onto the glasses. And on

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the inside of the arm here, we have a little sticker that's telling you that

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you can adjust the angle uh that the arm

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connects to the actual glasses. So, if I pull that off now, I don't know how to

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do it.

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Okay, there it is. You can see that's kind of the range of available

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positions. I feel like with the arms at a more downward angle, you kind of are

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getting a more direct line right onto the display. Whereas in the other mode,

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you know, it's whatever works for you really. While I have them on my face

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here, I got to say, as someone who wears glasses normally all the time, hi.

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Having those resting on your nose all day can be really annoying. So, this is

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Man, that's luxurious. And lastly on the front here, we are now in the current

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year used to people wearing glasses with cameras on the front. These are not

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cameras. There's no cameras here. That's not that this is not that kind of

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device. It respects you. So, those are the glasses themselves. We're going to

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turn them on and and play around with them a little bit in a second. But first, I want to see what else is in

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this fancy Batman package we got going on here. A charging cable display. Just

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the USBC cable. It's for all of it. And

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it's Oh, that's a that's what that's 4 feet.

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Are we saying that's four feet? And now we have to address the superhero in the

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room, the bat shade. Okay, this is Wow.

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You know, I've never been more excited in my life. So, we got this kind of like

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polygonal geometric uh Batman face mask

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design that is going to attach to the

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front of these glasses. And I'm doing it. I'm doing it right now. I can't

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wait. And there you have it. Now your headmounted display is officially in

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Gotham mode. Where's Rachel? Whoa.

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There. Wow. I didn't even know all that stuff was in there. This is cool. We've

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got documentation papers. I'm not

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reading. I honestly I probably need to look at that in a second, but not right

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now. Down here, we've got a sound tube.

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I don't know what a sound tube is and I but frankly that's the first thing I

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want to find out. This video is now about sound tubes. What are they and how

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how do they affect our society? Oh, I

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got it. I figured it out. These go onto the arms and they pipe the sound down

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into your more directly into your ears. Yeah. Okay. So then that that top window

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is perfectly positioned to leave the vent free on the top there. speakers

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there and it comes down and comes out of the hole directly more directly into

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your ear hole. I've never seen this before. But isn't this exactly the type

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of optimization that Batman would think about. So there you go. I mean maybe

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that helps get the sound more directly in there. We'll we'll find out later, I

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guess. Honestly though, it does make it look more like a Batman. Like before it

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looked like glasses with a Batman thing on it and now it looks like wo maybe

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Batman actually wears this. So, here we have what I assume would be the

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prescription lens insert because you can get prescription lenses for this thing.

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I'm wearing contacts today, so I don't need them. But if you choose to not have

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contacts, you could get prescription lenses. There's a little nub in here.

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You clip them on. So, there you go. You will look nerdier, but it'll be on this

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side of the glasses, so no one else will know. You'll still look badass. And then

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we also have uh what I guess is a Batman

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logo that serves as a stand to hang the

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bat shade on. Anyway, when you're not in Gotham mode, you can kind of have that

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on your desk and look at it and feel, you know, feel good. All right, in the

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Joker edition, we've got the Joker

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shade. Okay, so as you can see, this kind of has a similar polygonal

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geometric design. And under this, we've

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got the same kind of accessories as in the other box. And the glasses in this

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edition are just the same model. No, no color change or anything. All right, I'm

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going to set this aside so we have more room for activities.

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And let me tell you, once you put these on,

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I'm the Joker, baby. Why so serious?

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Okay, that doesn't work. Um, so it's finally time to experience some content

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inside these glasses. And what better way to experience what Raino says is the

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world's first HDR10 display in AR

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glasses by watching some Batman. So, I'm

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connected to an iPhone 17 Pro Max here.

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And we have the Batman, the Matt Reeves

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movie queued up to what I'm told is a

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good section. Okay, this looks pretty good. I need I might need to turn it

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down. So, I went to turn the volume up and I actually turned the brightness up

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instead. And I realized that I wasn't at max brightness, but at max brightness,

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it looks really nice. They can do,200 nits of brightness with the uh micro

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OLED displays. Raineio says that this is their Hue View 2.0 5.5th generation

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micro OLED display. And I got to say, I mean, especially with the shade in

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front, you know, we got these big studio lights here, which is affecting things a

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little bit, but if the big studio lights weren't there, like, oh man, this feels

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like I'm sitting in a theater. And I actually forgot that Raino says it's

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supposed to be like a 201in

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display that's 6 m away from you or about 19 ft. With the shade on, it's

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like I'm sitting in a totally black room. And it it does like if I kind of

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believe for a second that I'm sitting in a theater and that I'm I got a pretty

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good seat looking at this theater display. That's what it seems like. Now

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to get back to what I was trying to try out, which was the speakers, which are

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apparently a quad speaker array co-tuned

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with Bang and Olofen. We're going to play our standard. We're going to we're

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going to play the play the classics. Oh, and I should mention before I play it,

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the Crab Rave is SDR video content, but thanks to the Vision 4000 chip on the

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radio Air4 Pro. Uh, they have this AI

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SDR to HDR conversion mode that you can

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access just by opening the menu here. So, I'll have that experience plus the

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speakers. Let's go. So, going from SDR to HDR mode, you can immediately kind of

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see like the whites and the colors.

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There's a bit more like pop to the colors. Everything's a little bit

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brighter. Darks are a little bit darker. You can tell that it's not like native

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HDR content, but it gives a little bit of a boost. You can make use of some of

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the capability of this device to like express that higher range of of colors.

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I'm going to turn these speakers up now so that I can hear the uh quad speaker

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array. Jeez. Okay, so that's max volume. Holy crap, that's loud.

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Yo, that's pretty good. These speakers

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are pretty good. Uh, hold on. Give me another minute.

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I got to say it is better than you would expect

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glasses mounted speakers to be. Now, what if I turn it down a little bit? Cuz

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I I probably wouldn't want it this loud, honestly. I feel like if anything is

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like I would like to be bumped up a little bit, it would be the mids, but I

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don't even know. Maybe I take it back. It's pretty good, but bear in mind

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that's without the sound tubes. Are these supposed to kind of help with the

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privacy aspect? Like maybe you can play sound without it like

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other people hearing it as much. Okay, we're going to listen to the sound with

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the sound tubes on. And in order to do

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that, you want to go into the settings in the menu here and just enable sound

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tube mode.

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Wow. I don't know. Does that seem louder to you guys? Because that seems much

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louder to me. It sounded pretty good. I I still prefer the sound without the

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sound tubes, but you're getting a benefit in terms of the trade-off with

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the volume there. Now, while I'm still connected to the iPhone here, I'm going

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to open the Raino XR app, which

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apparently uh allows you to experience 2D to 3D conversion software feature

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that Reineo has uh has just launched alongside the glasses. This will take

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your 2D photos and videos and allow you to view them as 3D. It's a custom kind

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of experience. And the phone is the cursor. Interesting. I can you can move

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it around like a like a Wii mode. So, as you move your head, the display is just

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locked to where you are. There's it's not like tracking your head or anything, but it does look like there's a bit of

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depth. There's a space field in the back and there's a UI in the front. Oh, okay.

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So, this is a spatial this is a 3D video taken by an iPhone, presumably this one.

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Uh, and yeah, there's a bit of depth to it. Yeah, I could Whoa, whoa, whoa,

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whoa. We just went under a table. Hey.

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Okay, that's kind of fun seeing your 2D videos and photos like in 3D mode. You

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know, it's probably not something you want to do like all day every day, but

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that was kind of cool. And of course, what kind of game are we going to play

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with the Batman edition? Batman

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Arkham City. Don't ask me why we're playing Arkham City instead of one of

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the other ones, okay? Just just don't. So now this is honestly I you know it's

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probably not news to anybody but this is the use case that I find most compelling

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for these headmounted displays and it's running at 1080p which as I've said

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before on this display is is plenty for

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something that is right in front of your face. Wow. So playing that video game

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really did make me feel like what it's like to be Batman. Oh, and I forgot to

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mention while I was playing the game, uh these can go to 120 Hz. They have a 60

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Hz and a 120 Hz mode. So, there you have it. The Raino Air4 Pro Batman Edition or

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the nonBatman edition, the uh regular

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version. Uh right now you can get it for $2.49 and the Batman edition is 20 bucks

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more, 2.69. Thanks to Raino again for sponsoring this video. Uh it's been a

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while since I checked out one of these headmounted displays, as I said, and uh

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I think I want to keep playing with this one. Subscribe to ShortCircuit for more

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