okay so part two we're ready to get back
at this actually we had never intended to shoot a part two of this but uh it
would have been like a 40 minute long video so yeah let's
go Intel skull Canyon Nook features a sixth generation core i7 processor and
Thunderbolt 3 you can learn more at the link in the video
description we got through all the troubleshooting crap and it looks like
the way that it can work because you have to understand that HDMI over
DisplayPort is not quite the same thing
as native HDMI and that's what the Vive uses it uses HDMI over DP so the way to
handle that then was to feed my DP
signal all the way through the Thunderbolt cable to my Elgato dock out again through a
DisplayPort cable into DisplayPort here and we were able to do the
translation that way it didn't work when
we just tried to use a mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable and go HDMI into the box
but that means the proof of concept is
running now so let's assemble it
I'd love for this to be able to fit like right here so we'll call that kind of
good enough for a proof of concept and then
power to this the
output
sick I also need
this for valves box then goes to where the hell does
that go right I remember that goes okay
oh actually oh that's kind of tricky
this one needs cables going into both
sides of it I wish I could oh you know
what that would be a pretty freaking cool place to put it something yeah cuz
there's already um there's already a velcro strap here MH so I'll just grab
some double-sided uh
okay I don't understand how this bag
works there we go so
that is theoretically the light
tether now I've just got to get the bag attached to the
headset so I've done another round of
cable shaving which I'm hoping is going to give us
enough clearance here to close the top of the bloody headset so first is HDMI
then USB although this is a very short USB
cable the 3 and2 mm audio extension I realized I can just use the original one
it's already light and
short and the last thing we need
is power I could have grabbed an extra
power adapter see they all use the same
for the cable breakout box and for the headset itself they all used the same
12vt power and the same size connector but even if I did bring one from
home it wouldn't be right angle and I really don't want to destroy that cable
so I hit a bit of a roadblock while I was able to strip down
the HDMI cable and the USB cable to make
the cover fit on the Vive headset which is more important than I thought because
the headstrap doesn't go into place without it I I don't have a DC power
plug that I can use for it because the only one that comes with the Vive that's
a reasonable length and isn't attached to the tether is a straight and B
already needed for the breakout box the
good news is I found this a USB to the
same size DC plug freaking Wicked so all
I have to do then is take a 12vt 1.5 5
amp power adapter which I can power in the backpack and splice it onto that
plug Boop oh my God how am I going to do
this it's just ripping away one of the wires every time I try and uh strip the
outside but I'm not going to be defeated by a wire not today
Luke do you need to shoot crap
these are so crappy like the sheathing is stronger than the copper wires
inside okay so flight takes off at what did I just
do oh son of a I just spliced the
two freaking ends together okay what's my
excuse this may work though hold on a
second I could totally claim to have done that on purpose I just created uh
an adapter for that other battery bank now I don't need to use AC power for the
Vive headset boom that's what I meant to do okay so we're back in business and
this is great because carrying around this power brick honestly isn't much
worse than carrying around all this copper cabling and now we can power the
Vive with this instead I just have to
find a place to put
it actually that might work
nicely oh oh oh don't you you love it
when things just work I probably would but I wouldn't
know oh sick
okay that's a beautiful thing that I just witnessed right
there so
now we can go HDMI in
here uh oh this is one other thing that I grabbed off camera
just a short USB extension cuz that USB Cable's really short this is a fun
Discovery even though these ports are all colorcoded blue they're USB 2 ports
I had no idea I was running and looking high and low for USB 3 a TOA cables and
then I found the original one included with the Vive I didn't really want to
destroy that one and I kind of want what the hell these are USB 2 cables anyway
so anyway I've got a short extension here it's kind of a ghetto extension
it's got this like stupid extra cable on
it then
power which oh crap I hope that fits I
actually didn't um see cutting towards yourself is only dangerous if you get
impatient and press too hard
slip really not through yet okay got to
be through now
ah there we
go come on come
off okay
work the wires are basically just soldered right to this connector end
here so effectively by just bending it I think
we can make it 90° hey
hey okay now let's see if it
fits and if I can put it in without
damaging it sort of fragile now well that is a
ghetto wiring job if I've ever seen
one the new and improved lonus tether
uh
oh no this
way
okay all right
put on the wrong way again does this look like it's on
wrong it does it it sits weird doesn't
it up okay is it open or something oh no
no it's just like sideways isn't it okay
fine ah okay so it's the other shoulder
then now I'm getting this all tangled up
so this shoulder
yes okay that feel is that the I just put it
on this ARM to okay clearly this backpack is not the
one that I would want to use cuz I can't figure it out shoot how did that come
off I mean aside from it being a horrible piece of crap
okay it's back on my USB
extension is Mia there it
is okay okay so I still have to power the
headset which admittedly there isn't a
super crazy easy way to do right
now
okay so let's try
it oh okay my
Thunderbolt dad is not showing up okay
let's try the old reboot see if that fixes it what I would do if if I were
actually setting this up for real is I would tie this in a knot like a tension
relief knot so that I don't pull too hard on it cuz one aside from the weight
and uh size Advantage uh these Thunderbolt cables are very very strong
so you could also tie it like around the leg of a chair at the bottom if you have
a bit of extra length and tie it here so you don't risk uh ripping the connectors
out at either end something I have definitely done
with my standard tether at home
okay I rebooted the headset it's on okay uh what cable is that is that oh
oh it went off for a second what cable is this can I do I get a little bit more
length for that one or no no freaking
way no freaking way I think it worked I
mean no it worked okay hold on hold on I'll get a game
open oh my goodness I can't even believe
this look at that I mean that's a better
tether
hey I mean yes I'm wearing a backpack now but I can't even feel that okay
let's see if it's actually working it seems like it
though oh shoot
right the this backpack is certainly not ideal during my benchmarking I noticed
that if I turn to the side quickly it loosened also it actually has a bunch of
other random crap in it right now so it's much heavier than it needs to be
but something like a body pack that has
all the appropriate pieces slotted into it so it's nice and tight against the
body actually wouldn't add a lot of weight and now that I've done the proof
of concept would work absolutely
fantastically there's still a lot of question marks how long the battery life
would be for the headset as well as for
the Thunderbolt dock as well as how many actual customers would exist for a
product like this I mean we're adding another $200 to the cost with the cable
alone we're adding another $100 for a Thunderbolt EX card for and it only
works on isus motherboards and it's got to be Thunderbolt 2 because Corning
doesn't have Thunderbolt 3 optical cables yet there's still some things to
work out you're adding another hundred over dollars for the Thunderbolt dock
plus all of the batteries and all that kind of stuff I mean we're looking at a
solution that would cost probably as much or more than a Vive in the first
place though the way that I see it there's only two kinds of people who
shop for a Vive the kinds of people who just spent all of their money or the
kinds of people to whom $600 is nothing
so maybe the potential customer base for
this is not as small as you might think either way this was a lot of fun for me
I'm still not sure if I'm going to convert my personal rig we'll see about
that cuz there's a lot of refinement that would have to be done to the idea
but it's very cool to see it working in practice and not have to worry about
stomping on a super heavy thick and
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