1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,200 Now, I might look like some sort of cyber soldier freak, but I'm telling you, we're 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,120 just wearing some really cool VR tech that's going to be coming out really, really soon. 3 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:16,000 I mean, look at this. 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:23,720 And I still got the controller and I can get back into the game. This is all of the crazy tech that you can find at the Shift All booth at CES and soon 5 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,520 it's going to be coming out for you guys. Let's talk about what all of this stuff is. 6 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,600 I just need to get it off of me first. 7 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,320 We're going to talk about this sci-fi pack mule oat bag in a minute, but what I want 8 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:42,040 to talk about first is two pretty cool innovations. First, the flip VR controller that lets you do this and you're back in the game. 9 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,360 One of the biggest issues with VR adoption is the inconvenience of getting in and out 10 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:50,680 of VR. You find yourself moving stuff around, you're putting on a headset, you're suddenly blocking 11 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:54,320 out the world. To solve that issue, we're seeing a lot of development in mixed reality from companies 12 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:59,360 like Meta and Apple who are basically trying to make it so that the difference between the 13 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:04,040 outside world and the VR world are as seamless as possible, but you still have these pesky 14 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:08,240 controllers that you're going to deal with. But until hand tracking gets really good for the time being, you're going to be stuck with 15 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:13,520 controllers plus controllers offer a whole host of benefits like joysticks, buttons for 16 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,480 easy movement. Pretty much every game you're going to play is going to involve a controller and a lot 17 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:22,120 of the times that means you have to find a place to put them. If you're trying to take the headset off, it's just clumsy. 18 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,560 You have these little things, they're dangling from your wrists in an inconvenient way. 19 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,200 But you don't have to worry about that with these controllers because the moment you want 20 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,560 to grab something else, you can just flip them out of the way. 21 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,360 Because you're doing this kind of flipping motion, they've had to make a very heavy duty hinge. 22 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:41,000 They've rated it for about 20,000 flips. Who knows how many that you will use in the lifespan. 23 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,280 I imagine if you're playing a game, it's going to be really intermittent. But for me, I've been having this problem of that it's such a fun fidget toy that I just 24 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,960 have it in my hand and just like constantly finding reasons to do this over and over. 25 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:56,800 This still has all the same inputs and capacitive buttons just like the MetaQuest touch controllers. 26 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:02,560 So you have an AB button, a menu button as well as capacitive and analog triggers. 27 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,040 And as you can see, because of the nature of this controller, they've had to move a 28 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,500 lot of the tracking to the outside. It's kind of similar to like the Knuckles controllers where there's a lot of sensors 29 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:16,960 on the outside. This isn't quite final hardware. As you can see, there's still like holes in it with the infrared sensors. 30 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,800 Those are going to be covered up by transparent plastic. 31 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,760 As it stands, I think it's a pretty cool product and it's also adjustable very slightly 32 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:29,520 for like hand size. So if you're somebody with like longer thumbs or shorter hands, you can pull and adjust 33 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,520 and it's more comfortable as well as you can adjust how far back and how far forward the 34 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:39,720 joypad and the connections lie. Now I think the controller advancements are pretty cool, but I'm also really impressed 35 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:47,040 by the Meganex super light. This is going to be their new generation for 2024 for their Meganex line of headsets. 36 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:52,780 And as you can see, it's really small. You may have seen our video on LTT about the big screen beyond. 37 00:02:52,780 --> 00:02:56,740 It is a absolutely tiny headset that weighs just 127 grams. 38 00:02:56,740 --> 00:03:00,220 But to get that weight, there was a lot of sacrifices that had to be made. 39 00:03:00,220 --> 00:03:04,180 For example, you need to get a custom made face cushion that you can't really replace 40 00:03:04,180 --> 00:03:07,780 that easily. You also needed to use stick on lenses. 41 00:03:07,780 --> 00:03:11,940 There's no diopter options for adjusting for different prescriptions for people's vision. 42 00:03:11,940 --> 00:03:15,500 There was also no way to adjust your IPD. 43 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:18,860 That's your interpupillary distance. Basically how far your eyes are apart. 44 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:25,060 The Meganex does is that it allows all of those conveniences that makes the headset a 45 00:03:25,060 --> 00:03:28,580 lot more shareable and puts them in. 46 00:03:28,580 --> 00:03:33,100 We have a swappable gasket. We have a diopter adjustment. 47 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:37,740 It's not working on this prototype currently, as well as we have adjustable IPD so that 48 00:03:37,740 --> 00:03:42,040 you can actually share your headset, which was probably the biggest weakness of the big 49 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,940 screen beyond, was that it was kind of for you and only you. 50 00:03:45,940 --> 00:03:50,940 And they're able to do that while still targeting a very small and very comfortable form factor 51 00:03:50,940 --> 00:03:59,780 and a weight of just 250 grams. Each eye contains a 2600 by 2600 micro OLED display, very similar to the ones that are 52 00:03:59,780 --> 00:04:05,620 in the big screen beyond. But unlike the ones in the big screen beyond, these are 1.3 inches, which means they're 53 00:04:05,620 --> 00:04:13,060 larger. Why does that matter? Well, when you're trying to take a small like postage stamp size display and expand 54 00:04:13,060 --> 00:04:18,020 it to consume the whole field of view for the user, that requires intense optics. 55 00:04:18,020 --> 00:04:21,940 And doing a lot of hard work with optics causes internal reflections which can result in 56 00:04:21,940 --> 00:04:27,260 chromatic aberration and fringing on colors, as well as it means you lose a lot of light 57 00:04:27,260 --> 00:04:32,920 from your display. Like in the big screen beyond, for example, the actual brightness of the OLED display 58 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:38,380 is in the thousands of nits, but what gets to your eyes is around 100. 59 00:04:38,380 --> 00:04:41,700 So they lose 90% of their light, bouncing stuff around. 60 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:47,020 A bigger screen means you're doing less bending and warping of that light to make sure it 61 00:04:47,020 --> 00:04:51,740 gets to the user. Now, they quote that it's going to be above a 100 degree field of view. 62 00:04:51,740 --> 00:04:55,340 They're not really going to disclose that information currently. 63 00:04:55,340 --> 00:05:01,060 Field of view is actually pretty difficult to measure. It can mean a lot of different things, especially if you have a flat display versus a display 64 00:05:01,060 --> 00:05:08,900 that's in the headset at an angle. From my impressions after wearing it, to me, it feels a bit wider than the big screen beyond. 65 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:14,180 To be fair, I have not had an opportunity to adjust the IPT or the diopters, so I'm 66 00:05:14,180 --> 00:05:19,380 not going to talk a ton about focus or stuff like that, but honestly, with the same kind 67 00:05:19,380 --> 00:05:22,660 of high resolution that we're seeing on the big screen beyond, the screen door effect 68 00:05:22,660 --> 00:05:28,940 basically is negligible. Motion clarity from this test right now feels really solid. 69 00:05:28,940 --> 00:05:32,100 There's not a ton of blur, and also there's a decent amount of brightness. 70 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:35,140 It's not the brightest display. I don't know what they have. 71 00:05:35,140 --> 00:05:42,740 If they can crank it higher, I don't know what the limits are. For me, while it's not quite as comfortable as the bespoke fit of the big screen beyond, 72 00:05:42,740 --> 00:05:46,540 I think with maybe a nice foam gasket, I usually tend to prefer those. 73 00:05:46,540 --> 00:05:50,860 I would honestly be able to wear this for a really long time. The snow looks so good on the OLED. 74 00:05:50,860 --> 00:05:57,260 There's no bloom or anything like that. At the edges of the display, obviously there's a little bit of color fringing, but yeah, 75 00:05:57,260 --> 00:06:00,540 man, I'm so excited for VR to get actually this good. 76 00:06:00,540 --> 00:06:03,700 I've been waiting for VR to be good for a long time. 77 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:07,140 I say this as an enthusiast, somebody who really enjoys their time in VR. 78 00:06:07,140 --> 00:06:10,660 There's a lot of problems, and the level of convenience that stuff like this is providing 79 00:06:10,660 --> 00:06:15,100 is really cool, but it is kind of coming at a cost. 80 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:20,180 This headset is going to be under $1,700 is what they say. 81 00:06:20,180 --> 00:06:24,100 I think they're trying to target more of the $1,200 region, which still puts it in like 82 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:27,500 very pricey big screen beyond territory. 83 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:33,020 The controllers, however, are a little bit more reasonably priced. They're $400 for a pair. 84 00:06:33,020 --> 00:06:37,860 Again, it ain't cheap, especially when you can compare it to, say, your index controllers 85 00:06:37,860 --> 00:06:41,860 or your Quest controllers. This is all outside tracking. 86 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:46,860 We've got base stations up here, all sorts of stuff, but, oh, man, I feel cool when I 87 00:06:46,860 --> 00:06:52,260 do this. Do you know what I feel a little bit less cool is when I'm wearing this thing? 88 00:06:52,260 --> 00:06:56,660 This thing is called the MewTalk, and the idea is that if you're somebody who's doing 89 00:06:56,660 --> 00:07:00,460 a lot of hanging out in VR, you're getting excited, you might be having a ton of fun 90 00:07:00,460 --> 00:07:03,620 chatting with your friends, and you're pissing off your neighbors. 91 00:07:03,620 --> 00:07:07,060 I'm talking at this volume right now, and if I put this on, you can't really hear me 92 00:07:07,060 --> 00:07:10,740 talking that much anymore. But inside, it's not just a noise blocking thing. 93 00:07:10,740 --> 00:07:13,740 It's also a microphone in itself, a wireless mic. 94 00:07:13,740 --> 00:07:20,900 Because it's noise blocking, they've had to make a couple of accommodations. For example, there's a silicon gasket to keep the noise in, as well as inside, there's a 95 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:24,180 foam material to catch all of that spit, so it doesn't just pool up in there. 96 00:07:24,180 --> 00:07:27,660 I don't think there's a way to cover up the mouth that doesn't feel either dystopian 97 00:07:27,660 --> 00:07:31,700 or fetishy. You know, this is the kind of stuff I'd wear it at home mostly. 98 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:36,820 A CES show floor is like the worst case scenario for any sort of VR headset because of like 99 00:07:36,820 --> 00:07:40,660 base tracking is so difficult, and you can see by how well this is keeping the tracking 100 00:07:40,660 --> 00:07:47,500 going that it's actually really impressive. If you aren't that into VR, you probably haven't heard of Shift-All, but I think what they're 101 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:51,340 doing is really exciting, and you're probably going to hear their name a lot more in the future. 102 00:07:51,340 --> 00:07:55,620 Speaking of the future, why don't you get subscribed to ShortCircuit and watch our future coverage of CES. 103 00:07:55,620 --> 00:07:59,260 There's going to be so many cool videos. We've got so much cool tech. Do it. 104 00:07:59,260 --> 00:08:00,760 Watch. Gosh.