but really the highlight features here are of course NVIDIA phys x and 3d
vision whoa
who are you i'm you but from the future
2016 is crazy the phones they got no headphone jacks what i know
and who are you i'm you and you from the even more future in
2018 a new hardware product will come out from facebook what what
yeah they're making hardware now
wait wait what's happening to us you guys are interrupting my video
if i don't make awesome content today both of you future line i won't exist
you got to get out of here quick take the portal facebook is
sponsoring a showcase you gotta complete it before i
before i
what's this showcase
the portal and the portal plus from facebook are not quite like any device
that we've seen before because portal is specifically about making video calls
feel more personal so facebook's goal here is to make your video calls feel as
much like an in-person hangout as possible hence the name
so how would it do that i mean obviously
facebook doesn't have some never before seen camera under screen technology that
would allow you to make eye contact and look at the person at the same time
maybe that'll come in the future but they did manage to give portal at least
three main ways to make video calls more immersive
first portal is hands-free when you have
a live conversation with someone you're not holding their little face out in front
of you no your hands are free to talk all italian or you know cook or whatever
the case may be but it's not just that portal is totally
free standing or even that you don't have to touch it in order to place or
answer calls hey portal call Colton
no i don't want to talk to that guy it's that the camera will actually reframe as
you move around your space and automatically widen the shot if more
people enter the room it's not as fast as your eyes but it goes a long way
towards making conversations more natural especially since you can wander
pretty far thanks to the camera's 140 degree field of view
the second wave portal makes you feel more present is kind of related to the
first one it's called spotlight so if you were in a room full of people but
only one of them was let's say opening a present for example your eyes would
probably want to focus in on that and follow that action instead of giving
everything in the room equal attention like most cameras do with portal you
just double tap on the person you're interested in and the camera will keep
them in frame just like your own eyes would if you were in the room
finally number three is audio with two full range drivers two tweeters and a
four inch sub as well as a four microphone array portal has a lot more
audio hardware than your typical video calling device and it works well to keep
your friends voices from sounding well like a speakerphone perhaps more
importantly though portal's signal processing what they call smart sound
does a solid job of enhancing the voice of whoever's talking and minimizing
background noise even as you move around the room it still sounds pretty clear
from far away now given the focus on video calling i'm sure it doesn't come
as a surprise that facebook has built in some extras by pressing this button you
can activate the same filters that you'd find in messenger it's got a really cute
story time feature that adds sounds and ar effects and it allows you to listen
to music together don't worry though you have to accept someone's request to have your portal
just start playing music and thankfully you each have your own independent
volume controls this is actually a feature that i'd expect to become more
popular as people get used to the idea and as facebook expands their music
service support because right now each person has to have either a pandora or a
spotify premium account bringing us to the elephant in the room
none of these cool features mean diddly if the product doesn't take privacy
safety and security seriously so what has facebook done in that
department well like other voice enabled devices portal only sends voice commands
to facebook servers after you say hey portal and you can delete your voice
history in the facebook activity log then if you want to physically
disconnect portal from even being able to connect to the cloud you can toggle
the camera and the microphone off with this button up here and when you do
you'll see this red light these icons and this toast telling you that they're
off and if that's still not enough for you facebook actually went out of their
way to include this little camera cover inside the box but wait there's more
facebook says that all their video calls are encrypted so they don't listen to
view or keep the contents of your portal video calls and the ai technology used
by the camera runs locally on portal not
on facebook servers and even though portal smart cameras can keep you in
frame facebook has verified with us that while it does recognize the shape of a
human versus say a couch it does not
have facial recognition period
that's a definite plus as is the fact that surprisingly portal has amazon
alexa built right in so you can check the weather control your smart lights
set timers and all that good stuff it's also got a handful of other apps
including food network and facebook's watch video app
so cool but how much does it cost
well i was actually legitimately quite surprised to learn that the smaller
portal equipped with a 10.1 inch 1200 by 800 screen 10 watt speakers 12 megapixel
camera is only 199 while the larger portal plus has the same internals and
camera but with a 15.6 inch 1920x1080
screen 20 watt speakers and an accelerometer which lets the screen go
like this and this one is 349. not only that but
they have a deal where you can get any two devices big small or a mix and get a
hundred dollars off so the facebook portal is available now
so you can get yours today from amazon best buy or directly from
portal.facebook.com check them out at the links in the video
description so thanks to facebook for sponsoring this video i don't think 2012 Linus
would have seen a hardware product from facebook coming in a thousand years and
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