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hello and welcome to cnet's live coverage of CES 2016 the consumer electronic show we're coming to you live from the cnet stage in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center I'm Bridget Carey and I'm Jeff Bakalar in every morning this week we're here with the inside scoop where we sift through some of the more interesting announcements and news stories that will hopefully help you see through the hype happening here at CES so today is the official start of CES the doors have opened and thousands of attendees are flooding the show floor yeah last year's attendants logged in at around 170,000 people and we're expecting similar numbers this year so let's get started with the big news today now one of the stories making headlines this morning is news that broke well it's not on the show floor but it was a follow up to something that we first reported on earlier this this week that's right this morning oculus rift pre-orders went live and to my surprise it's only six hundred dollars and I say only because I was getting ready to spend a thousand dollars on a new oculus rift there's a lot of hype for a long time on this product absolutely a lot of speculation about how much it would cost again I thought I'd have to you know refinance my mortgage but no it's only going to be six hundred dollars you are though and there's a there's a huge caveat here you are going to have to have a pretty powerful gaming PC to run that kind of hardware yeah 600 is just the head that's the headset the xbox controller and that sort of apparatus you do need a pretty powerful PC to run that to be able to run the oculus as well so I guess all in your may be looking at a thousand dollars when it comes down to it probably a little more than that but that's what we're dealing with when it comes to brueggers so it it's I I mean I'm like basically at the checkout screen so I you know if you want to click it let's click it let's let's jump in together let's jump into the rift oh you know V are we expected to be a big topic at the show sure right now so far as press we got an early look at the HTC vive pre which is the updated version of HTC's version of this and the little extra thing that makes it stand out is the fact that it helps you basically not trip over your own furniture yes so this is interesting so some of the big sort of criticism about the vibe is that well it's going to have me sort of moving around the space that there could be furniture in and other obstacles that I can easily trip over when when I'm wearing a huge mask on my eyes so they're sort of introducing a parameter that will prevent you from falling over yourself but I think the answer little camera that actually looks out into the room it knows that you're there and you can actually see things on your phone this is just shadows you can actually make out details and what's in front of you I kind of like how you know every VR sort of product out there and I guess the vibe is is maybe the most sort of practical realistic competitor to what oculus is doing but you know it's kind of cool that they each have their own sort of gimmick I hate to say gimmick because what you have to right now with with sort of wherever you are that but it's I think the vibe is really the one product that's going to give the rift sort of a run for its money I'm not sort of see how that shakes out the spring sometime but we don't know too much about that none of those real specific concrete details but you know we've played around with the vibe our editors have gotten a chance to try that out and you know I think everyone's pretty sold on the technology so I'm glad to know that jumping into VR you've got PlayStation more well now its PlayStation VR I'm still stuck calling in Norfolk oh you know you've got like three kind of heavy hitters that are all jumping in this year so it'll be interesting to see where the dust settles and where people tend to migrate I think that oculus rift coming in at six hundred bucks is a big surprise yeah a pleasant surprise so definitely psyched to for the fact that people will be able to afford it some people and I'm curious what else we're gonna see in the show floor now that it's open when it comes to VR I mean so far we were seeing things about the experience around you not necessarily the tech of the goggles themselves but there was this thing we saw at a preview event at night called the immerse it as in as in sit your butt down on this chair bring your dad that is that is moving yeah and and jumping up and down so like a Disney World attraction ride the movies as they say it Universal to the ice we have we have a first-look from Sarah who got a check it out and it's kind of interesting because you I think they give you the option to sort of put it on when when there's a moment of sort of like acceleration where you can say like okay now I'd want to experience that right up this is the kind of stuff you had to go to an arcade and pay like five bucks or ten bucks for it sit down I made a roller coaster guys yeah I don't know if this is something that I could really bring in my apartment I feel like my downstairs neighbor might be upset you're like oh you know you can't be doing that here well there's some more practical stuff we saw last night from Intel sure had this smart helmet now think back to what Microsoft did with its hollow lens and Intel showed off something that was practical for the workplace right it's called the daiquiri is I don't if it's as tasty as a daiquiri no it's not daiquiris the name of the company and they're using Intel's m7 chip and technology called real sense to sort of give you an augmented reality experience with a hard hat design so you sort of look like you know almost like a stormtrooper and in a weird way and what it's going to allow people to do is sort of use industrial sort of workplace worksite applications the demo they showed was someone wearing this hard hat helmet contraption and sort of being able to see through a bunch of pipes and which pipe was defective that's exactly what makes the most sense for things like the hollow lens to I mean if I'm trying to fix something on home and have no idea how to fix it I want to be able to see in front of me some instructions and that's why this makes sense for a workplace or someone who's you know just trying to get the layout like a blueprint of something in front of them and overlay it on the wall that you know that they're standing in front of and it's a great tech demo I think it blew a lot of people away last night but at the same time it's like okay that's great technology but people have to develop for that and people have to sort of you know take a step back and say okay this is amazing technology but how do we use it in a way that's Universal for a lot of people I could see this being a more proprietary situation where if you're sort of going to have to go on a case-by-case basis regardless this daiquiri smart helmet it's available now it's shipping today we're going to see it on the stage actually later today later today on tomorrow daily so that's going to be great I one o'clock here at the scene that stage so pretty psyched about that going to stick around and see if I could get my hands on long another late breaking news came from a VW yes volkswagen they got it they had a bus concept car called the buddy I enjoy wintech as a cute little name but this was different you know we saw some earlier concept car tech a few days ago that was pretty extreme look like a Batmobile here's a here's a concept car that might be more practical though and we have a some video now of the presentation from the other night yeah it's pretty cool you like you say we're usually used to these flashy sporty sort of cars but no this is a car for for real people right for maybe people who need that kind of I don't want to say minivan situation but yeah this is probably where that fits uh it's like you said it's called the Buddy b.u.d.d.y and it just has a lot of like practical technology built into it and you know they're saying well hey you know by 2019 we anticipate a car battery like this to be able to charge eighty percent in about 15 minutes which is pretty free it sounds also practical if you're going to you know I don't know make a pit stop at the grocery store or something really quick the only we wanted to do 15 minutes I mean that would be convenient absolutely like a rapid charge situation like kind of what we have with with some phones now they take away all the mirrors for uh cameras which is pretty impressive and you can kind of see like who's getting into the car with a series of mirrors we're actually going to get to see this later today which is pretty rad around twelve-thirty you have a live shot with buddy and I don't know I I just this is the kind of car that I just want to maybe give a hug to it's a buddy it's a part of it it's a cute little car so yeah you know i like i said it's definitely a fresh change of pace really awesome to see something where it's not this over the top Bruce Wayne only sort of invention yeah a concept car that you might go all right