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here we are at CES 2016 I'm Scott Stein this is sean hollister and virtual reality we've seen a lot of it this show is full of it but the biggest stuff PlayStation VR oculus rift HTC vive is coming out in just a few months so what's this show about six hundred dollar oculus rift that was announced is VR for us who is it for at six hundred dollars it's for me because I'm a tech journalist and I have to buy it I don't know if I'd be able to buy that and a gaming PC if I wasn't my job not for me yeah that's the thing is I love oculus rift I love HD five using them but I think that price you add it up and maybe it was never meant for those of us who were not hardcore PC gamers I've come to him a mental state where I say that's early adoption stuff and then that's why mobile perhaps existed ok so the low end it was supposed to be for us oculus was supposed to be for us 300 350 dollars it was supposed to be something where all of us could afford that for our existing gaming PC's okay maybe that's not all of us but a lot of us it was Emma Braddock it was meant to be democratic no it's just sweat there's the high end rift oculus and who knows how I expensive I don't know which they're gonna kill thousand dollars gonna be out there it's gonna be up there and even though that stuff's high-end it's still tethered you're tethered with a cord to the ground yeah you're not going to bring someone home to look at your oculus rift pc system but you might pull some out of a bag and show them my phone you can take the gear vr with you it's ninety nine dollars you put your phone in it and what we've learned here at cas not only is the gear VR much better than the other cell phone viewers we've seen where you stick your phone in there what we're seeing peripherals little brass knuckle objects a rink controller for samsung miss developing where we're going to start to see that immersion in the phones to you'll be able to put your hands and demography are as well soon and then with the pace of cell phone technology how quickly that stuff develop Oh like that and overtake it possibly especially with 3d depth sensing cameras and the ability to go everywhere we're going to find out more this is just a taste and we'll be reporting soon on these VR systems stay tuned from Las Vegas here we are at CES