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okay so part two we're ready to get back

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at this actually we had never intended to shoot a part two of this but uh it

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would have been like a 40 minute long video so yeah let's

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go Intel skull Canyon Nook features a sixth generation core i7 processor and

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Thunderbolt 3 you can learn more at the link in the video

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description we got through all the troubleshooting crap and it looks like

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the way that it can work because you have to understand that HDMI over

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DisplayPort is not quite the same thing

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as native HDMI and that's what the Vive uses it uses HDMI over DP so the way to

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handle that then was to feed my DP

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signal all the way through the Thunderbolt cable to my Elgato dock out again through a

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DisplayPort cable into DisplayPort here and we were able to do the

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translation that way it didn't work when

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we just tried to use a mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable and go HDMI into the box

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but that means the proof of concept is

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running now so let's assemble it

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I'd love for this to be able to fit like right here so we'll call that kind of

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good enough for a proof of concept and then

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power to this the

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output

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sick I also need

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this for valves box then goes to where the hell does

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that go right I remember that goes okay

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oh actually oh that's kind of tricky

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this one needs cables going into both

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sides of it I wish I could oh you know

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what that would be a pretty freaking cool place to put it something yeah cuz

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there's already um there's already a velcro strap here MH so I'll just grab

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some double-sided uh

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okay I don't understand how this bag

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works there we go so

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that is theoretically the light

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tether now I've just got to get the bag attached to the

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headset so I've done another round of

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cable shaving which I'm hoping is going to give us

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enough clearance here to close the top of the bloody headset so first is HDMI

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then USB although this is a very short USB

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cable the 3 and2 mm audio extension I realized I can just use the original one

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it's already light and

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short and the last thing we need

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is power I could have grabbed an extra

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power adapter see they all use the same

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for the cable breakout box and for the headset itself they all used the same

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12vt power and the same size connector but even if I did bring one from

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home it wouldn't be right angle and I really don't want to destroy that cable

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so I hit a bit of a roadblock while I was able to strip down

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the HDMI cable and the USB cable to make

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the cover fit on the Vive headset which is more important than I thought because

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the headstrap doesn't go into place without it I I don't have a DC power

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plug that I can use for it because the only one that comes with the Vive that's

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a reasonable length and isn't attached to the tether is a straight and B

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already needed for the breakout box the

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good news is I found this a USB to the

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same size DC plug freaking Wicked so all

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I have to do then is take a 12vt 1.5 5

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amp power adapter which I can power in the backpack and splice it onto that

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plug Boop oh my God how am I going to do

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this it's just ripping away one of the wires every time I try and uh strip the

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outside but I'm not going to be defeated by a wire not today

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Luke do you need to shoot crap

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these are so crappy like the sheathing is stronger than the copper wires

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inside okay so flight takes off at what did I just

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do oh son of a I just spliced the

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two freaking ends together okay what's my

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excuse this may work though hold on a

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second I could totally claim to have done that on purpose I just created uh

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an adapter for that other battery bank now I don't need to use AC power for the

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Vive headset boom that's what I meant to do okay so we're back in business and

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this is great because carrying around this power brick honestly isn't much

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worse than carrying around all this copper cabling and now we can power the

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Vive with this instead I just have to

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find a place to put

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it actually that might work

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nicely oh oh oh don't you you love it

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when things just work I probably would but I wouldn't

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know oh sick

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okay that's a beautiful thing that I just witnessed right

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there so

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now we can go HDMI in

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here uh oh this is one other thing that I grabbed off camera

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just a short USB extension cuz that USB Cable's really short this is a fun

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Discovery even though these ports are all colorcoded blue they're USB 2 ports

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I had no idea I was running and looking high and low for USB 3 a TOA cables and

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then I found the original one included with the Vive I didn't really want to

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destroy that one and I kind of want what the hell these are USB 2 cables anyway

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so anyway I've got a short extension here it's kind of a ghetto extension

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it's got this like stupid extra cable on

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it then

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power which oh crap I hope that fits I

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actually didn't um see cutting towards yourself is only dangerous if you get

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impatient and press too hard

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slip really not through yet okay got to

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be through now

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ah there we

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go come on come

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off okay

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work the wires are basically just soldered right to this connector end

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here so effectively by just bending it I think

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we can make it 90° hey

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hey okay now let's see if it

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fits and if I can put it in without

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damaging it sort of fragile now well that is a

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ghetto wiring job if I've ever seen

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one the new and improved lonus tether

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oh no this

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way

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okay all right

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put on the wrong way again does this look like it's on

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wrong it does it it sits weird doesn't

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it up okay is it open or something oh no

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no it's just like sideways isn't it okay

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fine ah okay so it's the other shoulder

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then now I'm getting this all tangled up

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so this shoulder

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yes okay that feel is that the I just put it

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on this ARM to okay clearly this backpack is not the

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one that I would want to use cuz I can't figure it out shoot how did that come

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off I mean aside from it being a horrible piece of crap

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okay it's back on my USB

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extension is Mia there it

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is okay okay so I still have to power the

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headset which admittedly there isn't a

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super crazy easy way to do right

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now

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okay so let's try

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it oh okay my

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Thunderbolt dad is not showing up okay

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let's try the old reboot see if that fixes it what I would do if if I were

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actually setting this up for real is I would tie this in a knot like a tension

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relief knot so that I don't pull too hard on it cuz one aside from the weight

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and uh size Advantage uh these Thunderbolt cables are very very strong

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so you could also tie it like around the leg of a chair at the bottom if you have

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a bit of extra length and tie it here so you don't risk uh ripping the connectors

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out at either end something I have definitely done

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with my standard tether at home

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okay I rebooted the headset it's on okay uh what cable is that is that oh

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oh it went off for a second what cable is this can I do I get a little bit more

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length for that one or no no freaking

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way no freaking way I think it worked I

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mean no it worked okay hold on hold on I'll get a game

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open oh my goodness I can't even believe

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this look at that I mean that's a better

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tether

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hey I mean yes I'm wearing a backpack now but I can't even feel that okay

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let's see if it's actually working it seems like it

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though oh shoot

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right the this backpack is certainly not ideal during my benchmarking I noticed

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that if I turn to the side quickly it loosened also it actually has a bunch of

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other random crap in it right now so it's much heavier than it needs to be

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but something like a body pack that has

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all the appropriate pieces slotted into it so it's nice and tight against the

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body actually wouldn't add a lot of weight and now that I've done the proof

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of concept would work absolutely

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fantastically there's still a lot of question marks how long the battery life

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would be for the headset as well as for

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the Thunderbolt dock as well as how many actual customers would exist for a

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product like this I mean we're adding another $200 to the cost with the cable

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alone we're adding another $100 for a Thunderbolt EX card for and it only

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works on isus motherboards and it's got to be Thunderbolt 2 because Corning

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doesn't have Thunderbolt 3 optical cables yet there's still some things to

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work out you're adding another hundred over dollars for the Thunderbolt dock

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plus all of the batteries and all that kind of stuff I mean we're looking at a

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solution that would cost probably as much or more than a Vive in the first

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place though the way that I see it there's only two kinds of people who

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shop for a Vive the kinds of people who just spent all of their money or the

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kinds of people to whom $600 is nothing

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so maybe the potential customer base for

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this is not as small as you might think either way this was a lot of fun for me

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I'm still not sure if I'm going to convert my personal rig we'll see about

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that cuz there's a lot of refinement that would have to be done to the idea

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but it's very cool to see it working in practice and not have to worry about

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stomping on a super heavy thick and

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uh oh man it's awesome so thanks for

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