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as well as hyperx so in the the most
unlikely series of events ever I ended up at the Oculus booth at CES 2015 I
definitely didn't plan to be here at all we're checking out their Crescent Bay
prototype which is actually kind of fantastic we're out of the crystally
cove and we're into the bay now before I get into the awesome experience of this
prototype I'm going to talk about the hardware a little bit Unfortunately they wouldn't talk to me about any screen
improvements but they said it is a better screen although they did say it
is 90 HZ now instead of 75 um and they
wouldn't talk to me about the very specifics of the headphones but I can
tell you the the visual experience is quite good I don't think it's 100% ready
yet necessarily as when you get close to things you can definitely see the
resolution issues but the screen door seriously bad effect that we had on dk1
is basically solved as of this point now the headphones are spatial Audio
headphones and they're going to be releasing their spatial audio SDK for
DK2 users fairly soon so that people can start programming audio where you you
drop an audio effect somewhere in a room and you can hear specifically where it is cool cool cool so if you're crouching
below it you can tell you're below it Etc um but these headphones will be
removable on the consumer version the cv1 and there won't be a development kit
version of the uh the Crescent Bay prototype so you don't have to worry
about them not being removable on this one uh the removable headphones will be
no big deal you can strap on pretty much whatever you want the tracking on
Crescent Bay has gotten a massive massive Improvement and this is where I
saw DK2 lacking the most so I'm very happy that they focused on it they
probably realized that themselves not only have they added a ton of ir LEDs
including some around the rim so that you could see the IR LEDs from the back
but also on the back of your head in a triangle shape so that if you turn
completely around it is able to tell what you're doing it can tell if you
have your head tilted it can track you even if you turn around that was a huge
issue with DK2 because once you got slightly out of the box it would
disconnect and once you got a little bit too low it would disconnect but not only
is is there more tracking R LEDs but the the framing on the camera is much wider
vertically and horizontally so it'll be able to pick you up if you move out of
frame even more and it was very very noticeable and a huge Improvement
overall now for the experience uh we weren't allowed to capture footage of
the screen so I can't show you exactly what was happening but they had some
demos specifically tuned for Crescent Bay and it was pretty freaking fantastic
I got Brandon to try it out too because it was just way too cool they had stuff
like a dinosaur that would come down and basically eat you and they had some
crazy uh FPS battle scenes where you constantly feel like something's going
to hit you in the face and both Brandon and I physically dodged the bullet that
came for us because uh while presence in dk1 and DK2 were quite strong being able
to properly stand up and move around in the environment is insane obviously this
setup does doesn't have full body tracking so I wasn't able to lift my
hands up and actually move my hands around but once that comes around going
to be ridiculous because of how much of improvement the presence was on this
device all right guys I'm super stoked that I finally got to check out the
Oculus Booth thank you guys for watching let me know what you think about the
whole cv1 uh Crescent Bay experience in the
comments down below thank you to Phantom glass for sending us here this year and
protecting our phones we have a pretty cool video coming with them soon that I
got to do a little bit of at this booth stay tuned for more also thank you to
hyperx for helping us out as well youtube.com/ hyperx you can check out
their YouTube channel they got about 100,000 subscribers there and they released some pretty cool gaming content
so thank you for watching and I'll see you guys next time