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I never really was one for VR headsets especially the ones that we're seeing most recently with the gear VR and stuff like that they're really cool but after the demonstration that I went through I am now a believer in VRA it's Joshua government or authority what's going on everybody and this it's just my reaction to the demo of the HTC vive now obviously I'm not going to be able to show you what it was that I was able to see inside of our demo but I can't show you the unit itself this is only a part of all of the components that will put together the entire steam VR experience that you might end up enjoying in the coming year nonetheless what we have is the full head on unit that actually fits glasses actually what we will do is just put this on real quick and you'll see you put on I'll look a little silly for now but this is essentially what it is they told me if you go snorkeling this is kind of what it's the same sort of movement to get this on it's a very large unit that will immerse you into a particular world you have headphones on in order to hear what is going on around you and two controllers that will allow you to interact with the world around you but two laser units will be put on particular parts in your room in order to create what is effectively the room that you will be in creating this space that you will actually walk around it and that is the crux of the HTC vive you will actually be able to walk around the environment that is created for you using the world in steam VR and inside of the demo I got to go through five different places in order to really experience this for myself now immersion obviously is what is important about the HTC vive and that's exactly what you have to do you kind of have to let go and be a part of the world that is around you the first demo was of a shipwreck and I was walking around and before you get into the the actual world's themselves you're in a particular just like a very valve very steam like grid it's just white everywhere but as you come up to the boundary that the lasers create for you you see a mesh agree front of you and that is the boundary it kind of ingrained into your mind that you something bad will happen if you hit that if you go past it you might fall you know because of the sensory deprivation that way that immerses you into the world that you're about to experience is really what makes you feel like okay I better not go outside of these boundaries and that is when the demo truly began you go into a shipwreck and there are there are rails on in your underwater there are rails all over the place that you get to walk up to and look over and see the rocks below a huge whale appeared in front of me and I got absolutely terrified of it and you could reach out and try to touch you but of course you're in a virtual reality world after that was a cooking demonstration very much like the simulators that you might find on steam if you know that fellow gamers out there and you can pick up parts of the world using the controllers or triggers and you can actually hit buttons on there that interact with the world I tried to chop up some vegetables I made a soup picked up a plate threw it at the wall and it exploded in my face and it was a it was just a really good experience but what really would really blows people away who do this particular demo is the final demo which was an aperture world now I said aperture and all of you guys out there who know about portal and maybe even half life 1 to the hope for three those are the things that really us people really want to see in these VR platform steam VR with all of the games that steam has if we are able to be immersed into that world that is what it is I was trying to repair a robot from the aperture world and I couldn't figure it out I think they've set you up to fail because you can't find the part that you have to repair and as you're trying to rotate everything around trying to open up this robot you're walking around trying to find the tools that you need it's it's an incredible experience and it's just something that I wanted to share even though technically I can't really share it in the rich way that I want to but nonetheless this is the HTC vive this is the unit itself and really it's it's an incredible experience and there are so many components are going to go into it i'm told that they're all going to be Wireless even though obviously in these in these demo editions they are tethered because that this is going this is going to be a developer edition that will be sent out to the to the people who are going to develop for it and they need to have all of the variables kind of put into place but the final units are going to be Wireless there are endless possibilities for this I was thinking about a simulation type of deal where let's say you wanted to teach your kid how to drive well you can put them in a car and actually see all the components that will happen and really see what it's going to happen or maybe even a couple years down the line may be a heart surgeon is going to be able to see a body in front of him and be able to see all the parts that when he is actually at the table he will be able to know exactly what he's looking for not necessarily have to perform in the virtual world but at least be able to see what's going on and then of course movies video games of course that aperture world is still blowing my mind because you saw everything happening and when GLaDOS came in and reprimanded me for how bad my work was I was terrified because there was GLaDOS right in front of me I hope you gamers out there or with me right now because you're the ones who will understand what I'm saying and you what happened just is blown away in this demo as much as I was but in any case I really am looking forward to it HTC is of course a big part of the Android family and we wanted to see what they were up to with valve with their HTC vive this isn't necessarily an Android device but it's coming from a manufacturer that has android pedigree in its blood and we wanted to see what they were going to do outside of the Android world and this it really does look like at least to me a really good place for them to go so keep it tuned to Android 30 for all of the best coverage including perhaps a future review of the HTC vive we're not too sure what is going to happen once we get our hands on review unit I will give you my thoughts perhaps in one way or another but until then keep it tuned to android authority Mobile World Congress is slowly coming to its end and we are now here at the final couple days so keep it tuned here and remember that we are your source for all things HTC 5n mwc