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i'm definitely a fan of good vr experiences and i'm sure there are quite

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a few of you out there that feel the same but the investment required to get a

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good vr experience can be pretty big

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it's definitely a barrier of entry for a lot of people who'd like to get into vr

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so when lenovo reached out about doing a sponsored showcase of their mirage solo

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daydream vr headset and their mirage camera i was intrigued it's got two

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cameras on the front here and this is something that we've seen before in

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Windows mixed reality headsets but

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it's also completely self-contained with

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no wires or separate pc required

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so let's take a look

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it's not actually on yet we're just gonna roll the animated intro for now

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let's put the camera aside for now and start off with the mirage solo headset

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this is the world's first stand-alone

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daydream head-mounted display in the past all daydream headsets were

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essentially a shell with lenses that you could slide your daydream compatible

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phone into side note here google only actually

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lists 10 phones as daydream compatible on their website three of which are

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pixel devices so if you want to go that route make sure you double check that

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list with the mirage headset none of that matters it has its own built-in

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computer phone thing to do all of the rendering so

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standalone means there's no trip hazard wires all over the place and no external

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sensors that you have to drill into your wall or mount to your desk or whatever

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and as a side bonus you won't drain the battery of your actual phone like you

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would with a google cardboard you know in case your mom calls or whatever

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the exterior is made of like a soft touch off-white plastic with padding

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here here and here and then it's got this dual action adjustability with the

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button on the bottom and the knob at the back to accommodate pretty much

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any size of noggin look at that i o and specs are about

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what you'd expect for a modern computer phone

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a modern thing with a usb type-c port on the side for charging 64 gigs of

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internal storage and microsd expansion of up to 256 gigs the other side then

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features a power button with status led and volume controls and a headphone jack

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it also comes with a little daydream remote oh there it is

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that while fairly simple indesign works pretty well for the types of games that

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you'll be playing on a device like this which i guess means it's time to get

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started i'm gonna fire up some blade runner here so most of that seems pretty

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normal so far for a vr headset so while

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Jake's getting blade runner fired up i want to talk you guys through what's

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really different here the front is where things get really

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interesting sorry here you go so the mirage's dual 13 megapixel

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front-facing cameras power some new tech from google called world sense

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so in combination with the usual internal inertial sensors like a

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gyroscope and a magnetometer magnetic meter magnetometer magnet is that right

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and a magnetometer these cameras allow

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for six degrees of freedom of movement

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that means the headset not only tracks your head but also walking

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dodging leaning whatever you can pretty much move

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however you want and information collected from the cameras should allow

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the headset to keep track of where you are because even the best gyroscope is

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going to be subject to some degree of drift now if you do

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obstruct the view of the cameras or the room is too dark worldsense will

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automatically fall back to tracking just your head then once the camera's

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vision improves it resumes full spatial tracking and can even remember where you

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were it's pretty darn cool

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do you have a setup yet uh i know how to do that i am

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the world's biggest professional of all time

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we have accomplished more than any other

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media group hey i'm happy for you all right

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uh you could try the eclipse game what

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do i do uh i don't you should probably stand up i feel like this is definitely

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a better game to be standing up uh sure okay

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you want to reset your view i mean it's definitely still powered by

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phone graphics like i don't want to set unrealistic expectations for people

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and the tracking the tracking is what impresses me

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compared to other phone based vr solutions that i've tried before

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so this one's pretty cool and a couple of the other games that kind of stood

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out over the last week or so are fire escape and then blade runner

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revelations depending on whether you're more into

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puzzle solving action or or story

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now with that said if educational content is more your jam the bbc

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actually created an incredible underwater exploration of the california

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coast and google has a tech demo that they're calling audio factory now it's

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mostly just a showcase for simulated spatial sound

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but it's also a good bit of fun especially since it's free

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also for the non-gamers youtube vr can be a great reason to try out vr i mean

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everyone knows i think already that you can watch regular videos like LTT

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like they're on a big screen but there's also thousands of existing vr 180 and vr

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360 videos on the platform and next vr even lets you watch nba league pass

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games courtside in vr

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and we're adding one more thing that you might want to watch uh where is it

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ah thank you this is the mirage camera so it's a

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lightweight point-and-shoot style vr 180

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camera featuring dual 13-megapixel wide-angle cameras capable of shooting

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30 FPS 4k vr 180 video so it supports

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either saving content directly to your phone as a 2d video uploading it

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straight to youtube or even live streaming at up to 4k vr 180 also to

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youtube without any configuration required whatsoever so we are going to

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be using this to do a vr tour of our office that you'll be able to watch over

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on the lenovo youtube channel now the idea behind recording

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180 degrees rather than 360 is that it

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doesn't require image stitching which improves the image quality and it can

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help with both ensuring that people don't interfere with what you're trying

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to film and maintaining the focus of your viewers

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vr 180 can also be used to provide a super cool stereo 3d experience when you

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watch the footage back on a vr headset it's actually

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really trippy uh go check out the vr 180

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studio tour that we made in partnership with lenovo we're going to have that linked in the video description and it

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is best viewed with a head-mounted display like the mirage headset or a

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google cardboard so if you have one try it out and then after that if you're

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interested in picking up a mirage solo headset or the mirage camera check out

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the links in the description and then we also have links down there to a couple of other creators who also made videos

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on the two devices we featured today so thanks again to lenovo for sponsoring

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this video thanks to you guys for watching if you dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it

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hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the

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video description okay i kind of already said that but it's part of the standard outro what am i going to do at this

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point also down there is our merge storage has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should

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definitely join