Gadgetory

all right one of the little surprises during the keynotes something that I've just got my hands on a little few minutes ago is hashtag keyboard and as you can see right here we have the keyboard available and I've seen a lot of people walking around with it already having it constructed and using it a certain way I kind of got a little bit of a wind of exactly what it's supposed to be too and I haven't really tested it out myself because after all the first thing I got to do is construct it and that's what I'm just what to do right now we're gonna see how long it takes me to construct this little piece right here because there is a booth at the third floor that they have people there who will show you how to put it together if you just can't figure it out yourself basically I'm challenging myself to not have to go over there and need them to put it together for me so let's see what happens it's almost like a FedEx package or they have the little thing right there and let's open it up alright so there is what it should essentially look like and down here we have the parts that are supposed to be used so I'm going to attach those because it says detach here and let's take a look so and start here to assemble insert the numbered tabs into the corresponding slots and then it oak rose and there you go it only took me about a minute or so to be wall to get started but there it is now what we're looking at here is you have these little eye holes right here so kind of these are of goggles and I'm not gonna put them on right now because what you're supposed to do is right here on the bottom there's a QR code and you're supposed to download an application that will then be what you look at when we insert the phone into this area right here I hope my phone will work in this regard because I'm using the oneplus one right now hopefully it's not too big for this right here but let's go ahead and download the app while I was waiting I just thought I would try and see if the oneplus one was going to fit into the cardboard here and the answer is no but from what I can tell I should be able to still look through it when the time comes I still have quite a few minutes left to be downloading that application but yeah a little bit of comedy there for you you can see it coming out of the sides right there alright and here we go we have the app finally installed let's go ahead and take a look at it presentation at the top there there you go alright so here we are taking a look at it you say put on the viewer right there so let's go ahead and put the phone in as it tells us to and let's see what it comes up I probably look really ridiculous right now but essentially what you're getting here is a line of applications that will allow you to pick something there's this little magnet right here that you bring down and flick back up and that's what selects the thing so essentially what is happening here is it's giving you perspective and being able to look through this cardboard allows you to look through various parts of the item that is in front of you for example what is on the screen right now using the sensors on the phone it'll be able to show you around this item that you're seeing here and it shows you in quite a bit of depth the actual item itself we're putting it into this little apparatus right here allows you a little bit a little bit better look at it very 3d look here and you actually have the the full depth at 3d would allow you so that's kind of what you see let's take a look at Street View Shriya comes up and there you go oh we've got a 3d view of everything I can really like move around and see everything around me this looks like it doesn't look like San Francisco it is it is haven't just already so you have a street view basically here's what it looks like on the phone and basically it's given me a 3d look or in a depth look I keep trying to say in depth but there's some real depth to the actual look once you if you went through these glasses right here I'll look at one more application there you go Google Earth I'm looking at a 3d depiction of an area and as I look around I can actually see everything so it's a little bit like augmented reality in that sense but it really is just a way of looking at all looking at it through a real sensory type of feel because what it looks like I'm some kind of looking around and you can't really tell what it is because you have to look at the the goggles I write here so I think I actually take keep hold of this for a little bit but it is a very interesting way of looking at it something very cheap like a piece of cardboard with a magnet rubber band looks like and a couple of pieces of glass or plastic rather and it looks like so it's a great way of looking at various elements of your phone of course I don't need it only does a few very particular things but all in all I think it's a very nice little piece of kit it allows you to do a couple of interesting things so keep it 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