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as well as hyperx so in the the most

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unlikely series of events ever I ended up at the Oculus booth at CES 2015 I

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definitely didn't plan to be here at all we're checking out their Crescent Bay

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prototype which is actually kind of fantastic we're out of the crystally

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cove and we're into the bay now before I get into the awesome experience of this

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prototype I'm going to talk about the hardware a little bit Unfortunately they wouldn't talk to me about any screen

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improvements but they said it is a better screen although they did say it

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is 90 HZ now instead of 75 um and they

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wouldn't talk to me about the very specifics of the headphones but I can

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tell you the the visual experience is quite good I don't think it's 100% ready

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yet necessarily as when you get close to things you can definitely see the

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resolution issues but the screen door seriously bad effect that we had on dk1

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is basically solved as of this point now the headphones are spatial Audio

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headphones and they're going to be releasing their spatial audio SDK for

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DK2 users fairly soon so that people can start programming audio where you you

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drop an audio effect somewhere in a room and you can hear specifically where it is cool cool cool so if you're crouching

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below it you can tell you're below it Etc um but these headphones will be

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removable on the consumer version the cv1 and there won't be a development kit

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version of the uh the Crescent Bay prototype so you don't have to worry

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about them not being removable on this one uh the removable headphones will be

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no big deal you can strap on pretty much whatever you want the tracking on

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Crescent Bay has gotten a massive massive Improvement and this is where I

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saw DK2 lacking the most so I'm very happy that they focused on it they

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probably realized that themselves not only have they added a ton of ir LEDs

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including some around the rim so that you could see the IR LEDs from the back

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but also on the back of your head in a triangle shape so that if you turn

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completely around it is able to tell what you're doing it can tell if you

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have your head tilted it can track you even if you turn around that was a huge

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issue with DK2 because once you got slightly out of the box it would

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disconnect and once you got a little bit too low it would disconnect but not only

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is is there more tracking R LEDs but the the framing on the camera is much wider

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vertically and horizontally so it'll be able to pick you up if you move out of

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frame even more and it was very very noticeable and a huge Improvement

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overall now for the experience uh we weren't allowed to capture footage of

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the screen so I can't show you exactly what was happening but they had some

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demos specifically tuned for Crescent Bay and it was pretty freaking fantastic

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I got Brandon to try it out too because it was just way too cool they had stuff

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like a dinosaur that would come down and basically eat you and they had some

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crazy uh FPS battle scenes where you constantly feel like something's going

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to hit you in the face and both Brandon and I physically dodged the bullet that

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came for us because uh while presence in dk1 and DK2 were quite strong being able

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to properly stand up and move around in the environment is insane obviously this

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setup does doesn't have full body tracking so I wasn't able to lift my

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hands up and actually move my hands around but once that comes around going

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to be ridiculous because of how much of improvement the presence was on this

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device all right guys I'm super stoked that I finally got to check out the

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Oculus Booth thank you guys for watching let me know what you think about the

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whole cv1 uh Crescent Bay experience in the

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comments down below thank you to Phantom glass for sending us here this year and

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protecting our phones we have a pretty cool video coming with them soon that I

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got to do a little bit of at this booth stay tuned for more also thank you to

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hyperx for helping us out as well youtube.com/ hyperx you can check out

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their YouTube channel they got about 100,000 subscribers there and they released some pretty cool gaming content

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so thank you for watching and I'll see you guys next time