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Link in the video description down below all right guys we're checking out the
orus VR backpack this thing's pretty sick it works with the orus X7 DT which
has a desktop 980 in it so it should be pretty powerful the demo that they used
here today was Battlefield but okay okay what the what what is this thing for a
while now people have been doing really ghetto ass cluggy solutions for being
able to run like a desktop rig off of their back or even a laptop with like a
chopped up backpack back or something so that they could play VR with the rig
mounted on their back this helps in a lot of ways it makes it so that you're more mobile and it also makes it so that
the cable isn't a problem which is really annoying if you want to be moving
around for your VR experience this thing's pretty cool it's fairly easy to
strap the laptop in the whole unit with the laptop and the backpack is only 3
and2 lb so it weighs like basically nothing when it's on your back there's a
chest strap which keeps it locked in place nice and tight there's pouches on
the side of the belt which I actually didn't try on this extended belt thing
but that's fine um the the one pouch is
to hold the controller they're having ideas that maybe in the future they'll
be able to mount a semic curved battery on the back so that you can have
extended battery life on your laptop and then for the touch controllers that'll
later be coming for the Oculus they're thinking of having um little holsters
for the touch controllers this is pretty
sick but there are some problems like for instance when we look at the gun
they were playing B Battlefield so this was one of the things that you aimed with the gun and the headset controlled
where you looked so it was kind of weird cuz if you look to the left and move the
gun to the left instead of having your screen just look to the left a little
bit it did both of those movements meaning that it totaled to like here so
it felt a little unnatural when you're playing but I don't actually think
that's the problem of the backpack that's just some other things that need
to step up and get to that level now there's some things that they can help
with this as well it's a St in experience but you don't move cuz
there's no tracking for your legs so I was playing Battlefield and just using
the little uh thumb stick controller on the gun to actually move around which is
not ideal but if you use something like a Vive this might be a much better
solution or if you have a connect set up so that you can actually see what your
legs are doing so there's actually any point to be standing at all then that's
pretty cool this is still an early revision the rift isn't out yet the Vive
isn't out yet so obviously this doesn't really need need to be out yeah that's
fine there's some things that are going to be changing one of them hopefully my
suggestion is that they're going to open up the compatibility for laptops in the
back maybe with velcro straps to tie things down or whatever more orus
laptops would be great more laptops in general would be great as well because
the more things that work with this the more other people are going to try to make things that also work with this
that aren't necessarily laptops which is super super important wearing it felt
very comfortable and all it really made me want was more of these things and a
bunch of dudes and basically what you'd think of as laser tag but an actual
video game in like a laser tag arena because that would be super freaking
awesome to run around with VR headsets and play laser tag essentially but have
it look like Battlefield that would be super cool it's a relatively simple
concept but I think they kind of nailed it let me know what you guys think in the comments down below and thank you to
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