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hey now Scott and I got to do something really awesome this week we won't call who are you going to call who are you going to call is what Janine says in the first Ghostbusters film yeah we got to do this amazing be our ghost busters experience the other things God does what VR yeah we it was a joke Joe like we know he doesn't like I totally forgot yeah okay um every one of the wrong then you can retire interrupting me geez anyway uh Madame Tussauds you know Madame Tussauds is if you don't know it is it's this wax museum place there's a couple of them around the world there's one in Times Square and ghostbusters the new film out later this month teamed up with this VR company called the void and the void puts together this these very elaborate interactive over-the-top VR experiences and you and I got to sample it out a few days before it goes public i believe it starts today not today guys um so this was amazing because to me this was the best VR I'd ever done and I was telling you that and you kind of like I was like real yeah because I'm never optimistic about anything no it's true uh and and and Sarah or photographer trying it out and she's like really cynical about things like the yarn she said that was pretty cool she's like it's cool which is like the highest praise you could give um I liked it a lot now I'm like I'm really I found myself getting a little bit like six super no super critical okay here cuz I you just use a line you have a refined VR palette yeah and I because the the bloom is worn off as far as like the novelty of it but it is really cool as far as how you feel like you're in another space walk around its it I mean anywhere regardless of that the VR they had of me interviewing Ivan Reitman it was amazing I felt like I was actually sitting next to him he was so real so realistic he even said hey Jeff good to meet you I couldn't believe it anyway rendering so check it out this is what we did they put you in this amazing apparatus dude the vest we had was force feedback and it was it was locationally aware so while you're walking through this Oh space this set that they build for the VR experience you felt feedback like if a ghost threw a book at your left shoulder guess what your left shoulder vibrated it's a crazy VR laser tag yeah it was a wandering with this gear can't say enough amazing stuff about this thing I think when you like really break it down it was super impressive so again like imagine they build an entire sort of fun house for you to walk through yeah the the floor shakes they and they emulated of elevator the floor shakes you could feel the walls in the VR and in real life like would you we don't even know what it looked like right next thing we had no idea like horrible it probably just looked like a bunch of set pieces because no one's actually going to see that because they basically overlay the VR over the physical world that they've created inside so like there's a part where you think you're on a scaffolding there's a railing you put your arm out to grab the rail and you grab a rail like you actually feel it of course they shake the crap out of it you think like you're gonna fall off a 40-story building but then it lines up really well they lined up real well you open doors and you're even able to do that and you feel that one-to-one connection you go in with three people total so you see the other people in that experience which is something I've never done in VR before now you talk to each other and you you know you served a little bit of communication about your plan i I just I thought it was so damn cool so I go back I would do it again I mean it's only like seven minutes you're not yeah it's probably along along the Madisonian and the extra price like it's not cheap but it's like again as a one-time experience versus buying this VR gear right in putting in your home it's probably like the right level for people and it is doing stuff you can't do at home which is wander through this huge maze of rooms and and with a backpack computer yeah totally wired Wireless like let's not forget out with that what's the age rain like what's the age range of Requirement age 14 inches oh yeah I asked them about this yeah that's smart so 48 inches I know age range but it's because of the weight of the backpack right so it's and and probably for safety too just to make sure you're not going to fall over or anything but I think it's actually they do kind of let you feel you just do whatever you want technically you could like fall over yeah I guess like if you wanted to you could climb over that scaffolding I bet that and just fall into like where someone is probably they're like dude get back right get back into the thing I don't if you removed your helmet I'm so mad I didn't do that I should I figured it would've been like eyes wide shut there's like a circle of people watching you yeah maybe all silent watch like they're probably already there probably a lot of assistance ready to help because of safety concerns if you know I would imagine it's just very bright because all of those like little ping-pong balls have to be a point in regards oh yeah we're gonna we're Marcus in the chatting okay is it immersive VR and not augmented no it's completely immersive you are putting on a headset looking through lenses right you can't see any of the real world but what they do is they built a set in reality that has the same spatial dimensions of what you're seeing in VR so like there was one part where like there was a graded sort of gate I put my hand on it and it felt like a gate felt like a fence they really did a great job there's one scene where slimer passes through you like the ghost and they they like missed you right Nick you got like a little lamb yeah oh well sometimes a little bit of 40 40 meters look just 48 cinnamon experiences and exactly they call it hyper reality or mystery all marketing and marketing it is VR and if if you know about the HTC vive basically yet it's it's kind of like what HD vibe does with boundaries of a room yeah well you say it's much more advanced in the sense that they map I mean they're building this to a specific set right so they build out all the physical details that they want so you can feel like you're touching more plus they've like you said all the other sensory stuff but then it is full it's full VR bright its full VR and that's the thing and that's not looking outside right and that's what I think like VR kind of works great right now like yes you this like build these things at theme parks wherever they are build it make it this this because you know the VR the experience relies just as much on the physical space as it does the VR like if there wasn't a vibrating floor if there wasn't wind to make you think you're on top of the building it would fall flat they're add this adds something that you just aren't going to get it home right like them they realize the more senses you can throw at you to create that illusion it's not about the graphics even the graphics I feel like in a way or step down yeah they weren't the best right they weren't like if you've tried HTC vive you might have actually seen sign with a little bit better graphics but it's really there still good but it's not like yeah you feel like you're more in a game but it's everything else arts to create that sense of reality where you go oh wow I'm going to take it off and I can tabs like all the sins to touch smell feel yeah i feel like the smell was probably unintentional but that worked it was a marshmallow smell good it was it really wasn't joking when I said it smell like toast a marshmallow you did that on purpose yes UL night and asked them but I so maybe you know but you want to smell and yeah just is you're hungry you sure you're very spin on things yeah bride to feel when i was fighting the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man had to give it away but um you know that don't weird were and like wasn't it great how like you shot him in the head and his hand got burnt like it wasn't like all canned stuff we're like no no he's just loading cuz its supposed to like in the first senior in this little room in an apartment and you just tear the whole place to crack like you just use your protein it's reverie and like all the stuffs on the floor and I'm like oh that was supposed to just do that and then i shot the stuff on the floor and it popped again I was like okay this is a game this is like the Phoenix upload a video game yeah it's a real like little mini game yeah and oh man the elevator just scared me there was it wasn't too scared of that one moment the elevator that's like girl passed girl goes she comes in what's he sick I'm there something like this like I was I literally went to cover my eyes even though there were no like you I just like I would close my eyes like it's gonna be bad there's no good thing that happens with girl ghost getting on elevator it's never good never is going to scare you it reminded me of terror of terror for sure had a little bit of a tariff talabot when I went off on that balcony might sound like yeah I felt scared and I turned around and saw that my other Ghostbusters buddies stayed behind they were all way back in line I'm not going in the room of the hotel watching me to see what would happen is if I would like die it's nice yeah they did a great job so you know you got to get props to the void they did a really good job I may have sounded like a little bit critical when I wrote it because i felt like i was expecting i heard so much about the void and I thought is is redefining what I think about VR not entirely but it is really well done yeah for sure all right let's move things along a little bit vr question they want to know from Scott which of you already think is better I believe this is the vibrance the ocular oh it's a good question okay settle this right now I think the vibe is the best hardware going right now for a number of reasons i think that the visual quality and the headset looks a little bit better the the controllers the room element and there are more games right now that you can get on steam i think oculus touch is going to catch up to that quite a bit I like oculus is a compact feeling though in the design of just the package i think is a little more consumer-friendly i still feel like though for the average person you're probably better off just getting something super cheap like a gear VR totally and waiting you know PlayStation VR is pretty cool I want to see more about that I feel like that's a good price for the system that's definitely the most accessible yes especially if you have a ps4 that's kind of the one I'd want to like your diver so you have to worry about buying a new system all right right exactly is I'm not like a pc gamer and so like it mean investing yet to invest in the PC and um you know the stuff is going to get better in like a year totally and and the games are gonna keep you better so this won't suck as much wearing that's the thing is that yes i'm lee like how many times you're going to buy a new heads yeah we're not there yet but we're on the road for pair of glasses and earphones that's it right i like the best vibe