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lonus Tech tips coverage of pax 2014 is brought to you by Intel and Corsair all

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right guys we're here at oculus rift at PAX East you all knew this was coming I

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held myself off as long as I could but it is now day two and I couldn't stay

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away any longer I got to try out their couch nights demo which was really good

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and it was really fun to play um any comparisons I make during this video

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will be comparing to development kit one not the HD prototype or the uh Crystal

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Cove prototype development kit one just so you guys know uh right off the bat

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the pixel grid is still noticeable at 108 but we kind of expected that it is a

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lot easier to look past though than it was on development kit 1 you could look

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past it on development kit 1 but it's still always looks like you're looking

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through a screen door on this one you notice the pixels at first but once you

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get engaged with the game they kind of disappear and it's not actually too bad

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although I am still definitely excited for kind of 4K screens or 2 and a2k

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screens in these VR devices the other most noticeable thing when you actually

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start playing with it is presence when you lean forward or if you move your

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head forward or you chill your head side to side or any of that kind of stuff it actually react reacts to that due to the

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tracking LEDs and the external camera that they have now set up and that feels

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great and it feels natural and it really makes you feel like you're actually in the game despite sitting on a couch

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playing with knights that are on the table which is not happening in reality

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but it still actually is a lot more engaging and really increases the

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presence that you feel within the VR environment another interesting question

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I had was about the external camera that we first saw introduced on the crystal

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Co prototype and is now on DK2 or this

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guy right here um the external camera which I can't show you right now is is

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tracking IR LEDs that are built into the front of the development kit too and if

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you were to play something like e Valkyrie and tried to do a back flip so you lean too far backwards and

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essentially took the headset like this how's the tracking IR LEDs going to work

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if the camera can't see them properly and if you were someone who bought an

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omni or has an omni already or is getting one in the future how's that

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going to work because if the tracking camera is set up in one fixed position

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and you turn around so you're not facing it anymore and the headsets like this to

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the camera that's going to be a serious problem and the answer to that was that

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they're targeting a seated position they have to be able to conquer what's on the

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table now before they move forward and what's on the table now is a seated

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position so hopefully in the future you can do stuff like holidex while you're

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running around and jumping over things and you can stand and you can Crouch and

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you can crawl and you can do all that kind of stuff but for now the Oculus

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experience is going to be seated so if you're someone that's getting an omni or

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someone that plans to be flipping around or mobile with the Oculus that's not

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actually the experience they're targeting right now so just a heads up

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all right guys so I think the conclusion of this is that I'm not canceling my DK2

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order if you will let me know let me know in the comments below let me know

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on the Forum let me know on Twitter at slick PC I want to know what you guys think about this demo we showed you as

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much as we could now other than strapping the camera into an Oculus Rift because that would not work very well

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but oh well um I had a great time it looks great the the presence of being

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able to lean forward and backward is great low persistence on the OLED panel

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is awesome I got to experience that as well and the fast 75 HZ refresh rate is

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also great so let me know what you think think about all those things in the same

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