people tend to treat building high-end computers like creating a sculpture the
construction is slow and meticulous time
is taken ensuring that every individual cable is roted and managed perfectly
Investments are made not only in their cuttingedge Hardware but also in things
that offer little to no performance Improvement like beautiful brushed
aluminum and tempered glass from their Superior components to their fine
craftsmanship to they seemingly cult-like Community it's easy to
understand the passion and like sculptures the best personal computers
are all about the Builder's attention to detail it has a GTX 980 like a desktop
PC it has rubber tubing like the International Space Station it has
strapping like a pickup truck it has a magnesium aluminum alloy frame like an
F1 car it mounts to your back like like
a jetpack it features an AC to DC
voltage converted power delivery system like the cray supercomputer and it
features dual exhaust ports like an F-16
fighter jet the LT Edition VR backpack
may just be the most revolutionary closest to falling apart piece of
technology ever pulled out of a Craigslist ad
the be quiet! dark based Pro 900 modular design supports a variety of different
layouts and configurations click on the link in the video description to learn
more all right so first off I need to give a shout out to the drive YouTube
channel and Corbin Goodwin for their awesome video the zero given RX7 which
inspired the intro to this video Corbin's car is badass go check it out
now getting back on topic why did we make a VR backpack it's actually rather
simple we wanted to play with it and you can't buy a commercial one yet the B1 VR
backpack that we checked out from aorus in January at CES this year is vaporware
and the same is true for the Zotac VR backpack that was showcased at computex
this year and while MSI has announced their VR1 backpack and I've heard
through the grape find that a certain space fairing organization that rhymes
with Bessa H anyways they're going to use it
for immersive training of their astronauts which is very cool and that
also is not available yet so if you want
to solve the problem with the long cable that runs between the headset and the
computer also known as the tether coming up with something yourself is the only
way lonus had one idea but while he lightened the cable itself he ended up
wearing a backpack full of electronics so large and heavy that many of you
wondered if he wouldn't be better off just you know putting the Computing
device on his back directly this doesn't remove the tether but it will remove any
issues with the tether as you just need to Cable manage it from well your back
so I set out to do this as cost effectively as possible without
compromising on the experience I started
with a proper hiking style backpack frame with a waist Buckle the weight
mitigation is really not a big deal this
thing with all this Hardware weighs less than the bag I used to carry around
school with just textbooks in it but as with many things the most important
reason is cost I got this backpack for
25 bucks off Craigslist from a lady who seemed like she would have rather had
anyone come pick it up other than me
after removing the bag off of the frame I had a perfect solid lightweight frame
I got the straps for another 20 bucks from Home Depot and some spare waste
rubber tube from tan for free 45 bucks
all in and with some more time spent deal shopping and thinking of your own
creative ways to mount your laptop it is
possible that you could get even lower overall none of this was that hard I
spent a bunch of time planning out the best possible way to mount everything
looking up thermal properties of different materials online and what not
then I finally went to Home Depot to grab some gear to get it done and
thought hey what about straps like like pickup
trucks and that solution worked perfectly well and was Far easier than
what I was actually thinking of doing so just head out to the local store
junkyard get inspired and get her done it's not that big of a deal now the
reason I chose to do this with a laptop instead of various desktop components
wasn't actually the difference in difficulty it would have still been
doable but I just didn't feel like it was actually a compromise the percentage
of people buying gaming capable laptops
is increasing at a surprising rate in no small part due to their performance even
this last generation Acer Predator X17
has a high performance Intel Core i7
6820hk a desktop grade 980 dual 256 GB
ssds in raid zero 32 gigs of ddr4 memory
and more including an air vent layout that worked perfectly for this setup not
to mention that for somebody that already has one of these laptops 45
bucks isn't too much to invest in order to be able to swap quickly between a VR
backpack experience and the normal laptop experience that you're used to
now I know this video isn't going to get a million views and I also understand
that it probably doesn't deserve it the internet currently is fueled by hype
drama and memes and this video contains
none of those sometimes I just feel obligated to to make a video where I
show that it really isn't that hard to just create something of your own I'm
actually rather proud of this rickety little bag it's mine I was the one that
made sure it matched the standard lonus Tech tips orange and black colors I was
the one that scared the nice lady while picking up the Magnesium aluminum alloy
frame and I was the one that thought to
use the strapping I like to think of this project as a reflection of me it's
not perfect but I'd like to think that it's very functional and I'd like you to
go out and create something that is a reflection of you send a picture or
video of it to me at Linus and tag me if
you want to reply at lukor LFR and by
this I do not mean just a collection of
computer parts that you happen to plug into each other I'm sure most of you
watching are sufficient enough at electrical Lego to get that done now go
make something cool and make it for you
just let me know about it thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you
know what to do you can dislike it but um LT backpack man will be very sad if
you do that because um I don't I don't know where I'm going with this like the
video if you liked it subscribe if you liked it as well if you want to buy
something uh uh a laptop there we go
check out the Amazon Link in the video description down below also discuss how
terrible my creation was on the Forum the LTD Community Forum they're great
over there um and in the description down below you can buy a t-shirt not
this one but like ones that are like this one I just don't think this one's
available anymore but you know that's cool whatever if you want to see another
video check out this one where I turn an old computer case into a test bench also
pretty cool