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Digital hey guys we're at the huge massive glorious Sony Booth checking up
their head-mounted display and this really caught my eye because when I
first saw it I actually thought it had something to do with oculus but it's not really like Oculus so what's the main
differences uh I can't tell I can't speak for what it's not I can speak to
what it is uh this is our second generation of the head mounted viewer
it's the hmz T 3w it's uh it replicates
really an indoor theater but it just sits on your face uh what's different
about this one than its predecessor it's completely portable so when we were
talking earlier about gaming gaming is a truly immersive experience in this uh
but so is watching a movie or what have you projects the equivalent of 150 in
movie screen from about 12 ft away so slipping this thing on when you're on
the airplane plugging in your audio uh the content source for the video whether
it be from your tablet your phone PC or what have you sit back on the plane and
enjoy uh a truly immersive Movie experience so
essentially wherever you go if you have an HDMI plug you consume whatever media
is are there essentially yeah here at the CES demonstrations we're doing uh we
have it plugged into both PlayStation 4 uh and then tablets and mobile phones it
takes an HDMI in so if you're coming from a tablet or what have you I might
use a uh uh MHL to HDMI connection or if
you're coming from Ser your cable box at home HDMI to HDMI perfect now they have
two demos here one standing demo one sitting demo the standing demo you were
just consuming content of a movie and that was really interesting because like
you said on the plane in a car ride if you're in the back seat hopefully not the front seat uh wherever you are you
can consume media media very easily and very well it's it's I was surprised
because when I tried out the Oculus I know sorry um the the the picture
quality is not quite there yet I know they're not released and all that kind of stuff but you can definitely see the
pixels on this one it was it was different I could see things very
clearly the display was really good now can you tell me more about the display
yeah the displays are twoo OLED panels uh and they're inches away from your eye
they're 720p panels uh Engineers tell me that the reason they're not 1080p is
that it' be a wasted resolution since those panels are so close to your eyes
uh so uh twin OLED panels uh inches away
with your nose in between uh it does great 3D so when this this product first
came out in the US we called it the uh 3D viewer uh people thought well I don't
want to watch 3D you don't have to so now we name it the headmount display
that was probably pretty smart because when I first said 3D viewr that's EX exactly what I thought it was when I was
playing the game it's it's you weren't necessarily controlling the car I know
that's not necessarily a thing yet but may possibly be in the future uh but it
it was cool because the car was ripping down the racetrack and you could look
around as if you were the guy in the in the vehicle so looking around checking
everything out and with that crisp of a display like it's it's interesting
because Oculus the one I've tried is also 720p and this is 72 120p but it's a
completely different experience Oculus you can see the pixel grid like I said
earlier on this one you cannot so it's definitely awesome and I definitely
recommend trying it out so the convention closed while we were trying to finish our Sony head mounted display
video so we returned to Canada I retired the suit and now we're finishing it up
uh for those of you that are looking for an Oculus this is not an Oculus in my
opinion if you're looking for an extremely immersive VR experience you
should probably be going with an Oculus if you're looking for a really high-end
media consumption device say if you're using a lot of public transit or
something like that this is a really good idea it's really nice for movies
the picture quality is amazing amazing um but it does have a price tag as well
it's looking around $1,000 plus depending on where you live um I know a
few of you Europeans are not going to be exactly happy with the price tag at the
end of the conversion rate and stuff like that but it is a really high-end
device OLED displays 720p that close to your face looks great etc etc thank you
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