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hey it's Josh regard from Andhra Authority what's going on everybody and we're here at e3 super excited I'm here with Andrew crush who are actually very affectionately called crush II in our team I'm here with grouchy and you may know him from the FDP we have lawn and Darcy here as well and our first meeting of the day today was with merge VR so actually the guys over here were able to get a demo of it actually got to try it out so I'm gonna let grossie give us a rundown on what merge VR is all about all right so basically merge VR is a VR headset obviously it is made of a high quality foam they call their right yeah and polyurethane yes and then it's adjustable and unlike some of them the top strap you actually can take off so it's more comfortable for people with like lawn has tell they're for people with long hair they're not gonna have problems with this way the cool thing about this is that it's not just it is cardboard compatible I wanna get that other way it will be fully compatible with cardboard but beyond that they'll have its own ecosystem of apps that take use of this remote and this remote it's kind of like the kind of a Wii Remote so to speak swing things around like if you're playing a game that requires action you just swing it through and you know reload there's fire button to trigger buttons and yeah it'll work with any Android phone right now that you in the preview we showed off iOS yeah you're gonna see the guys that were that we got the demo way that with merge VR obviously it was made using an iOS device so I got slid through there and we were able to play some more they were actually adding I didn't do it they were able to play a there's like a wizard reach I was like a you basically I don't know what the game was called it was just a demo but you had a wand and you have these like pumpkins and like bats and stuff and with the pumpkins to shoot at them and then with a bat you're sitting here you know yeah that's the thing about the controller's that actually is a one-to-one movement with the actual with the actual game itself so it is like a Wii Remote in that way it just doesn't look like one which it kind of does but it actually has the movement in there and it actually is able to latch on to the side this is the part that I remember it's actually able to latch them to the side and that motion tracking will be able to allow you to have even better AVR like perspective I suppose to the term yeah and so yeah and then of course it is have it I can use your phone sensors to track as you move things around so uh as far as pricing everything I think they said they're looking at about a hundred and thirty dollars final retail and when final retail does arrive it will have Android even though we saw a demo with iOS Android will be a priority and we'll be ready to go and also wasn't there a connection to the cardboard applications with their that cardboard apps would be compatible with it for the most part actually yeah I said that basically anything cardboard related will work on this and then they'll be an ecosystem of apps they're gonna have their own app where you can like find curated created information and then it will then link over to the Play Store so you can download from there and it's a as its own UI for like selecting apps once you once you load up the app you put it on and then you could find it use the headset to navigate so it's it's definitely you know it's a cool way to expand on what cardboards doing you know I haven't had a lot of like compared to Josh's had you know the vive and you know I think VR is gonna be a huge focus here at e3 most likely and there are already a lot of people where you could only be able to meet it could be said right off that you know Android isn't it's we're not at the same point as we are with the rift I mean obviously but it's a lot more accessible to price things a lot lower it's it's something that anyone can have and it's a lot more mobile I mean you look at the equipment evolve for the rift you have to hook up the you have to hook up your rig you have to hook up you know yeah this you could take anywhere you can take your phone and that's it's it's light it weighs nothing you know it's and even the material will help if you have it on for long periods of time it'll help with the whole sweat is why probably most and the long hair problem that we said earlier lies right over other side over there well we do have merge VR we have a lot more vor platforms so take a look at and a lot more Android gaming platforms to talk about so make sure you keep it tuned here to andrew authority we're coming to you live from e3 here in LA my hometown