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I know you're always on the night shift but what's up guys long hair from android authority and I'm joined here with my good friend and colleague arrived gondia and we're here at computex 2016 and we just got a chance to check out the HTC vive we've both used it before in the past so we've had a couple experiences with it but we got another chance to take a look at it here at computex because they had a couple of new demos to show us so we decided to try it out and sort of just give you guys our thoughts on the experience that we had so we both got a chance to play a shooter type game but their vote they're both very different so the one that I got to try out was basically sort of an alien-type shooter game so basically you you had this grappling hook that allowed you to teleport through various different parts of the map and you also had a bunch of different weapons like a rocket launcher a shotgun and just your standard sort of pistol type weapon and basically you're just sort of going around destroying alien drones and I'll be honest it's not the best HTC vive experience that I've had it was definitely pretty cool and a lot of fun but I've played some other demos that were pretty much exactly like it so I can't really say that was too blown away by it but it definitely was a fun experience but the experience that nabob had I was actually pretty jealous of because he played a what I thought was a much better game so why don't you go and go ahead and tell them what game you got to play and what it was like alright so if you guys obviously follow the site you'll realize that HTC have got their own in-house development team building their own vive experiences and the first game to come from this is called front defense it was pretty epic I'm not gonna lie i mean i'm a i'm a fan of first-person shooters but there was something uber realistic about it that just you it's an experience you can't quite get from say a console game an example you don't you in an almost stationary position you're kind of in this little calm very very small area but you've got a semi-automatic machine gun you've got machine garden you've got rocket launcher you've got a grenade you've got a fricking bazooka and all around you literally from here all the way around you've got maybe I think one person on the Left supporting you but then you've just got enemies from all over in front of you whether it's up top whether it's far away in the distance all coming at you all trying to shoot you and as you know if you get hit you're seeing like within the VR experience you're seeing blood spurting and things like that right for blood bank but blood splatter so you can tell you've been shot I will say really really quite complex to get the hang of the game to begin with because you almost like wait which button I mean that you're using both grips on the both buttons of the controller so you've got the trigger button than the other one the grapple but it doesn't quite make logical sense to begin with but once you get the hang of exactly how to pick up a gun to reload it or you know pick up a grenade launcher bring it to your mouth as if you're pulling the pin out and love it it's fantastic the probably the most the the scariest part of that game is where it's so lifelike that you've got a tank that's literally just coming in towards you and then it stops and then the turret comes down and you are staring this big turret in the face and you are you know that if you don't hit it with a rocket launcher or a grenade you're about to get blown to kingdom come and when I say like it's realistic you throw a grenade at it it can bounce off if you don't hit right it's that fantastic so this is HTC's first homemade game if you will call at home made and compared to I've used vibe before and compared to the other experiences this blows it away you can tell that they've really understood explain know obviously what the vibe can do and they've made a game that is designed to literally make the most of item yet compared to the game that I got to play graphically your game looked a lot better but it also looked much more immersive but tell me how cool it was to pick up that rocket launcher and shoot it because that's the part that I was really jealous about like it was really fun to pick up a rocket launcher to try and put well a bazooka trying to put a rocket launcher in rocket in it here this dude in New Era going no turn the rocket launcher bazooka round cuz you got it the wrong way cuz it's difficult to tell and it's you know it was really cool to you know where you've got dude shooting at you from up top to be able to go haha watch this look just like yeah just go and bomb him and then it was although there's something about that game if you are if you're lucky enough to have a viable to buy of Ivan you've got you know you've got the constraints on shopping usually you've got enough space you've got a powerful computer get front defense and then block off the rest of your day because you are we only saw one very small segment of that game but if it's if the rest of the game is anything like that that segment you could be there for hours and days on end right I think it's definitely pretty awesome what HTC is doing with the vibe there's a couple other demos to that we didn't get to try out they also had another one with like a whole rowing machine where you could actually play a rowing game so a lot of really immersive stuff coming out of HTC with the vibe so we're pretty happy we got a chance to check it out it kind of shows that vo doesn't need to necessarily be all about fun because the concept behind that rowing machine game was what rowing machine experience was your rowing through space which is it in touch it makes no sense to me but you are enjoying via it's a very expensive set up by the way like super uber expensive but you're enjoying VR and the immersive pneus of it you know in a world you probably wouldn't be but at the same time you're using it to get fit and there is definitely oh you know there's definitely ways that VR can be applied to actually more than just gaming gaming although it's what everyone imagines is the core crux of ER right now it will soon become very just a small amount of what you can do with in virtual reality so definitely a lot of cool stuff coming out of the HTC vive but I think we're going to go ahead and wrap up this video hopefully you guys enjoyed it there's a lot more to come at computex 2016 so stay tuned give this video a thumbs up if you did enjoy it subscribe to the channel which is down below if you haven't already so don't miss out on all of our coverage and keep it tuned here to android authority because we are your source for all things android you