man playing with Hot Wheels is so fun huh but you know what's even better the
new Hot Wheels Rift rally the sponsor for this video and Hot Wheels wanted us
to check out their new experience which combines like a AAA racing game
experience with a next-gen mixed reality
doing this thing basically how often do
we get to unbox just like literal toys Jake we should do this more okay we got
a quick start guide it's basically saying that you can either use this as
an iPhone app and play like with a controller or is there touch controls
there's touch controls or you can play on a PS4 or PS5 like just sitting on the
couch now some of you might be confused about what the heck is going on here in
this box is a car this is called the chameleon
it's a Hot Wheels car but it's much bigger than a regular Hot Wheels car
that's difference number one difference number two there's a camera on the front
and that's because like I said earlier this is a mixed reality experience that
camera is going to perceive the world around it like an animal with eyes but
in this case this thing is going to drive wherever
you want it to but it's going to send the video to either your phone or your
console and then you'll be able to control the actual physical car from
wherever you're controlling it from now you're not just gonna be driving this
thing through your house and you know having exciting races around the oven or
something although that does sound great the app also overlays over the top
tracks and cool Hot Wheels Graphics into
the game things are going to get pretty wild hot you could say it looks like a
fast car I'll say that but it's called the chameleon because you'll actually be
able to select different cars is in the game and from your view that car will be
overlaid on top of this one you know you don't have to drive the same car every
single time so I noticed on this side there's this little swivelly bit and
that covers up the USBC charging port apparently this guy is going to take two
and a half hours to charge and right next to that is the pairing button slash
power button we also have lights here some LED lights I think when I pressed
that it went red so I guess that's the that means that you're pressing the
power button and then it's off it was blue earlier so I think maybe it's blue
in pairing mode you'll find all this out when you play with me but first we got
to find out what else is in this box because you need it what else we got we
got these little foot thing is that I think are going to hold
these Gates so they're going to be detected the symbols on here are going
to be detected by the camera and it's going to know where it is on the track
depending on that this is gate number two the best gate there are four of
these gates in the box so that's what you got to work with when you're
building your track
okay we got our four Gates set up we got
the com this guy's raring to go and we got the app installed so it's time to
set up our track via the floating robot guy is telling me that when the
chameleon when it stands in for another car whatever car you choose this will
gain its performance so it's top speed acceleration breaking everything your
life is about to change little chameleon the chameleon needs to decode mystery
programs to learn to transform itself into other cars okay so you like you're
unlocking different models of Hot Wheels cars whoa he's really wow that took a
lot out of him you could tell okay I'm decoding a new car decoding
oh that was so hard I had to use all my skills
I need to do the training which is in the campaign before I get any info about
the car there's like a campaign there's like a story in here it's like a
narrative so it looks like with Wi-Fi connection mode you'll be able to
connect to the car as long as the car and you are within range of your Wi-Fi
network makes sense but you can also do a direct connection mode where you don't
have to stay within the bounds of your Wi-Fi network however the overall range
how far away from you your car can get is smaller what's also nice is that the
rift rally system supports cross play so while you're playing on like an iPhone
or an iOS device you can play with someone who's not playing on that
playing like a PS4 or PS5 or something so to pair your chameleon car you hold
the pairing button until it starts pulsing blue and then you have to point
the camera at the QR code it comes up on screen do you see that you see the
lights oh it's green it's blue launch activity
oh look at that it looks like we're
connected says V oh what a messy room
sassy unnecessarily why let's take the
chameleon for a spin okay this looks
really cool I just want to use it for this oh
whoa whoa all right I'm glad that it's only going
that fast because on the screen it feels
like you're going a lot faster oh oh slow down crazy human don't step on my
on my bone shaker
David look it's coming I'm about to do a sick trick
let's go
what's up nice moves try another okay
I'm gonna try tilt controls
oh
wow tilt tilt is not tilt is not the way to go hmm what happens if you hold both
gas and break at the same time
oh this this happens cough cough that must
be why they call them hot wheels you can boost to inject the rift Engine with
what's a rift engine when your Rift energy is low you can recharge it with a
bit of wild driving by causing the chameleon to drift it
says that the rear wheels will lose grip and the car will begin to drift I'm
skeptical but we're gonna have to see all right
here we go there we go there we go can't
you see does it look like I'm drifting no your chameleon has different gear
settings you can toggle with the gear selector low gear gives better handling
high gear is faster I'm in high gear now we were it was Child's Play before
oh wow this is actually quite a bit faster training completed
time to build a track there's two
then we're going to have a little bit of a loop here
I'm gonna use this yeah guys I have to confess something
I'm not a racetrack designer I don't know what the left side
poured in starburton racing V wants me to meet them at gate one I got a little
date okay one there it is but I'm back as the chameleon car I wanted to be bone
shaker that's fine all right
whoa this track has a giant statue of an
amazing cameraman great job David
drive through grade three over here
yeah that's a bit of a loop whoa
I think I will go back to tap controls
four return to V in front of gate one or
be punished oh
okay and now I made a track new track
built here's a new track are you ready to use it you can like change how
intensely the track shows up in augmented reality so if you want to be
like I I am driving more in the real world you can fade it out a little bit
or bring it in I kind of want it in all the way yeah okay use track training completed
yes Dragon scrap yard okay all I gotta
do is finish in second and hit three or fewer penalty pads launch okay bone
shaker oh here we go three two one go
wow this track has some oh there's people here with me there's people
oh my goodness oh you get like a little boot oh see this is
you get a little boost if you stay on the the Hot Wheels track that's
interesting
let's go let's go okay I'm not drifting
at all we're gonna do a real drift here yes
oh no I'm completely losing
the cheering did not help it made things worse so there's the other racer there's
oh no here we go and here's the drift
yeah it was a good drift though it was a good
drift Brent where am I I'm completely lost
I forgot to look at the real world I got lost in the sauce David I know you don't
believe in me but I'm gonna do it okay
no dad would say I can do it
there finish
did I win so I was supposed to finish in second and hit three or fewer penalty
pads uh and I I got fourth and I didn't
do I didn't I didn't do well
I don't think any I don't I don't know what that is
but the important thing is I had fun thanks again to Hot Wheels rally for
sponsoring this video it was a lot of fun I learned a lot about racing and how
I'm not quite ready for it if you thought this looked cool hit the link in
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