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it's really funny oculus even has this bush a set up right here with their logo I think that's pretty funny hey it's Josh regard for management authority what's going on everybody and I'm coming to you live from the oculus connect the second year of the Developer Conference of oculus has for their rift platform but also with Samsung for the gear VR platform now there's already a video of me giving my reactions to the to the announcements of the new gear gear VR that comes in at $99 which i think is really great a very easy price point and entry point for people who already have samsung devices and it will bring some of the best VR experiences to a lot of people all right so I already gave my reactions to that and it's actually over to my left right here where Samsung is kicking it right now but over to my right is oculus touch now if you remember back at MWC this year we were all really blown away by the HTC vive which is through the partnership with valve that HTC is bringing VR in their own way and it was because there was a lot of touch and the fact that you can actually walk around in an environment in order to really be a part of this VR experience now what oculus touch does is actually very much the same thing except there are a few changes yes you do have the entire set connected to a computer and you're seeing me actually Don the whole thing right now it's gonna go to a computer it should have a wireless component to it considering that the person had to hold the wire while I was walking around with it and that was the case for HTC vive as well but what oculus has done is they've created the small space that you're able to walk around in just like in the vibe but now the inputs are actually geared taught more towards the gaming aspect it's because the actual controllers wrap around the hands and then the circular areas where the contacts are communicate with the computer and with the sensors to give you a one-to-one access to where your hands are and now this isn't something that's necessarily new but the actual controller itself is pretty much in the shape of a gun so the two demos that I actually did wear of gunslinger stuff so the first one that I did was simply a shooting gallery type kind of like in the Old West where I had two pistols and what what happens is on the bottom portion where your index feet are rather your middle finger would lie is a grabbing button which is where you're going to grab and interact with a lot of stuff and by holding that you're holding up the guns or any of the items that are in the world what made this really cool was the second demo which was called a bullet train so essentially you start on a train and you're given the ability to teleport this is the way that you're gonna move around in the world rather than just be confined to just one particular area what you do is you hold the a button which is one of the space buttons on the top and then you're able to teleport forward now this is a game by epic so you can imagine that it was actually epic because when the train stopped after I learned how to teleport and pick up guns and shoot them I was put into this train terminal or train station where all of these soldiers were coming after me and you're able to teleport to a bunch of different places grab a bunch of guns and shoot a lot of people and it was really awesome see what was really great about it is that you can teleport all over the place you're able to even teleport to your enemies and be able to disarm them and when he disarmed them they automatically disappear and died and whatnot and you had rifles and shotguns and pistols and they were just it was just really really fun for anybody that was the has played first-person shooters or anything this really puts you in the shoes of the character that you're usually playing in games like that so it was a great demo showing the capabilities of their touch platform obviously they're going to be two controllers but the reason why it's actually really fun especially for the gamer types is that they actually have inputs that cater to gaming but that's not really all that they have the were workshop in toy box type games where you actually put into a space and you have to grab and actually manipulate parts of the world so there was that aspect as well but the games that I played were of course the shooting gallery types and the bullet train one which is the one that came after that a super fun a really great way for oculus to kind of put their touch platform forward and to be able to compete with the likes of HTC vive with the way that they were able to show their movements and also their interactions with the world those particular types tend to have wands kind of like the PlayStation Move and whatnot but the way that oculus is doing it does seem a bit more intuitive and allows you a lot of different inputs and movements because there were control sticks on the actual controllers so you feasibly you should be able to move around the world it might be a little bit weird because you're in a small Square area but nonetheless there's a lot of input on there for you to be able to really manipulate so that was just a reaction video it's kind of hard to really show via our platforms on a video like this which makes our job a little bit tougher so the best we can do are these reaction videos and I wasn't even able to record the TV that was showing what I was doing in the VR thing unfortunately but hopefully you get an idea of just how cool VR is continuously getting now much more advanced it's getting as well and with HTC vive stealing the show back at MWC oculus is able to steal their show obviously into their show with their rift and touch platform so key between 234 even more don't forget to check out the gear VR video that I did just just a little while ago then you're probably seeing on the channel right now so you can see what Samsung had in store for this oculus event keep it tuned to you 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