VR Gaming Backpack Concept from Aorus - CES 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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thank you to Squarespace for sending us the CES 2016 this year check out their
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Link in the video description down below all right guys we're checking out the
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orus VR backpack this thing's pretty sick it works with the orus X7 DT which
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has a desktop 980 in it so it should be pretty powerful the demo that they used
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here today was Battlefield but okay okay what the what what is this thing for a
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while now people have been doing really ghetto ass cluggy solutions for being
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able to run like a desktop rig off of their back or even a laptop with like a
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chopped up backpack back or something so that they could play VR with the rig
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mounted on their back this helps in a lot of ways it makes it so that you're more mobile and it also makes it so that
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the cable isn't a problem which is really annoying if you want to be moving
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around for your VR experience this thing's pretty cool it's fairly easy to
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strap the laptop in the whole unit with the laptop and the backpack is only 3
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and2 lb so it weighs like basically nothing when it's on your back there's a
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chest strap which keeps it locked in place nice and tight there's pouches on
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the side of the belt which I actually didn't try on this extended belt thing
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but that's fine um the the one pouch is
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to hold the controller they're having ideas that maybe in the future they'll
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be able to mount a semic curved battery on the back so that you can have
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extended battery life on your laptop and then for the touch controllers that'll
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later be coming for the Oculus they're thinking of having um little holsters
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for the touch controllers this is pretty
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sick but there are some problems like for instance when we look at the gun
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they were playing B Battlefield so this was one of the things that you aimed with the gun and the headset controlled
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where you looked so it was kind of weird cuz if you look to the left and move the
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gun to the left instead of having your screen just look to the left a little
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bit it did both of those movements meaning that it totaled to like here so
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it felt a little unnatural when you're playing but I don't actually think
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that's the problem of the backpack that's just some other things that need
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to step up and get to that level now there's some things that they can help
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with this as well it's a St in experience but you don't move cuz
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there's no tracking for your legs so I was playing Battlefield and just using
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the little uh thumb stick controller on the gun to actually move around which is
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not ideal but if you use something like a Vive this might be a much better
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solution or if you have a connect set up so that you can actually see what your
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legs are doing so there's actually any point to be standing at all then that's
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pretty cool this is still an early revision the rift isn't out yet the Vive
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isn't out yet so obviously this doesn't really need need to be out yeah that's
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fine there's some things that are going to be changing one of them hopefully my
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suggestion is that they're going to open up the compatibility for laptops in the
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back maybe with velcro straps to tie things down or whatever more orus
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laptops would be great more laptops in general would be great as well because
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the more things that work with this the more other people are going to try to make things that also work with this
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that aren't necessarily laptops which is super super important wearing it felt
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very comfortable and all it really made me want was more of these things and a
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bunch of dudes and basically what you'd think of as laser tag but an actual
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video game in like a laser tag arena because that would be super freaking
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awesome to run around with VR headsets and play laser tag essentially but have
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it look like Battlefield that would be super cool it's a relatively simple
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concept but I think they kind of nailed it let me know what you guys think in the comments down below and thank you to
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Squarespace for sending us here to 20 CES 2016 if you want to set up a website
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a simple website for something like maybe a VR arcade where people wear
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backpacks with laptops on them and shoot each other with fake guns that would be
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great you could do that on Squarespace you could set up a Commerce module so
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people could buy tickets to your thing relatively easily you can use their
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templates so it looks really good even if you're not a very aesthetically tuned
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