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the Windows 10 fall creators update is here and with it comes a bunch of mixed

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reality stuff like paint 3d and the

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mixed reality viewer along with some new

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partner developed hardware to support these mixed reality experiences and that

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is what we're checking out today the acer Windows mixed reality headset

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is the first of a wave of compatible headsets all of

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which have similarly brutal names but just what is so mixed about it and at

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four hundred dollars can it compete with incumbent vr

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heavyweights like the htc vive and oculus rift

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the meteor xr series from roseville features a black exterior with white

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interior accents a detachable five and a quarter inch bay and more check it out

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at the link below okay first things first the acer Windows mixed reality

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heads you know what i'm just gonna call it armor looks more like a mixed reality

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play set its glossy plastic finish can

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best be described as power rangers-esque and its overall feel

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is less premium than either the rift or

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the vive i mean nobody ever looks cool with clunky

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headgear but this one is probably among the uncoolest that i've

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seen yet and it has some issues with fit as well

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the padding around the goggles plugged the nostrils of almost everyone in the

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office who tried it and the headset's sole adjustment point which to their

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credit is super easy to use tightens the headband without pulling

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the goggles themselves closer to your face

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so it's designed this way so that you can

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flip the goggles up which is great for taking a quick look

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at the real world or having a conversation with a colleague but the

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result is that the bottom edge of the goggles is further from your face than

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it needs to be making it difficult to get everything perfectly in focus

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let's talk screen now compared to the rift and the vive armor uses a

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significantly higher resolution screen

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2880x1440 this results in a noticeably

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sharper image and reduced though still noticeable screen

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door effect with that said don't get too excited unlike the rift in the vive

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armor uses an lcd display instead of an

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OLED display so even just wandering around in virtual

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space there is noticeable smearing behind even moderate speed objects with

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the effect most noticeable against contrasting backgrounds almer's biggest

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claim to fame though is its inside out tracking so what this means is that the

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system's awareness of its position is all done in the helmet itself

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rather than having it rely on a constellation of motion trackers placed

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strategically around your desk this means that setup time

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a significant pain point with other solutions now takes just a couple of

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minutes but this does come with some drawbacks

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if the controllers are moved beyond the field of view of the front-facing

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cameras they may glitch out for a second while they recalibrate

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and well traditional

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outside-in tracking will always be more accurate especially if you're using

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three or more satellites so this

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combined with the lcd display already

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disqualifies armor for gamers and probably high level content creators on

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the subject of the controllers let's take a look at them you can actually

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save a hundred bucks if you don't want them but a lot of the experiences

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definitely worked better with them they're designed by microsoft so you can

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expect other upcoming mixed reality headsets to use them and

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overall while they won't win any ergonomic awards your thumb rests sort

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of between the trackpad and the joystick rather than on either of them and the

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handles don't taper toward the end for some reason the build quality is okay

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and they're small light and pretty simple to use i'm actually genuinely a

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little annoyed though that they use double a batteries rather than charging

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over usb that said the fact that the Windows home

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button takes you to a literal Windows home definitely delights me

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okay then i'm glad to hear you're delighted Linus

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but so far all you've shown is a vr headset isn't

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this the acer Windows mixed reality

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headset how does armor let you interact with both the real world

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and the virtual world at the same time

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that is a long and wonderful question

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it doesn't

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no no there's there's no funny

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punch line here it just doesn't

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and i'll be honest with you this confused us a little bit too in fact

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truthfully i i probably wouldn't have requested one of these from acer if i

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had fully understood what it was or more

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accurately what it wasn't so after some

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digging it appears as though Windows mixed reality is more like

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aspirational branding for a platform

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that will eventually support ar vr

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and mr tools like the microsoft hololens

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then it is a description of the actual products that are labeled with it today

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so despite the name headsets like this one are pretty much

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last year's hardware with a higher resolution display

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on next year's platform which makes it

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kind of hard to understand why exactly someone would buy them back in april

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when acer first announced this product pricing was going to be the big

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advantage but then oculus hardcore used that facebook money to

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kill that when they slashed the price of the rift which even includes headphones

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and a bunch of games at the same price of 400

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so should anyone buy this then

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okay actually maybe inside out tracking

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makes armor way more portable than other

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flagship vr systems since there's no satellites to cart around and then stick

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on tripods and then plug in the wall and then calibrate blah blah blah no it's

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basically plug and play and there will be lots to play the theater experience

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is legitimately better thanks to the intuitive navigation and higher pixel

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density and by the end of the year wmr

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will support steamvr so assuming your gaming rig has the horses you'll be able

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to play most of the same games as everyone else with some tracking and

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pixel response compromises so all told

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then auburn isn't a terrible product

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and for the person who needs portability it or samsung's upcoming OLED competitor

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is a much better experience than a phone-based google cardboard or whatever

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but for an enthusiast like me i mean i

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was already a little disappointed when it didn't have the next-gen vr feel that

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i would have expected over a year after the launch of the rift and the vive

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and then when it didn't even begin to deliver on the promise that was right in the name

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and didn't manage to undercut existing offerings enough to be a budget

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alternative i mean that was just the cucumber icing

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on a gluten-free cake so i'll be waiting to see what's coming from oculus and htc

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