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hey everyone we're closing out our computex coverage over the next few days but we saw plenty of stuff to work on including today's quick report on the msi vr backpack and a couple of companies have V our backpacks this time around but a messiah is one of the first along with asus to debut the technology in a semi real form before getting to that all this coverage is brought to you by roseville and their new Cullinan case which uses tempered glass side panels so with this backpack first of all the target price is not finalized but it just to get it out of the way immediately they are aiming at the 2,000 ish dollar range and it will maximally sell upwards of five grand depending on the SKU in it so that stated now that we've got the money understood the VR backpacks entire purpose is to eliminate wires with VR so as many of you know just from watching tech reviews or maybe some of you have tried it there's the VR tether sort of a tether of cables that runs down the back your head and it normally kind of gets in the way as you walk around at playing with something like the HTC vive so these backpacks are trying to eliminate that I'm personally not a hundred percent sure how viable I think the idea is but they're definitely all trying and it is something to at least talk about so the thing is equipped with a custom motherboard it's not a laptop like we saw with Intel previously at CES is a custom motherboard and it uses an MX am a car that's the type of semi modular GPU that you would find in a high on the laptop so the MXM cards on this particular msi vr backpack used the gtx 980 not the nine ATM by the 980 and they are looking towards the 1080 and possibly the 1070 in the near future potentially before actual launch because it's not a real product just yet the backpack itself weighs 5 kilograms right now so around 10 pounds and it's supposed to wait less by the entry to production its weight is derived primarily from the use of all aluminum for the backpack but other materials like plastics and things like that will be introduced to the final model and of course it's got normal backpack straps on it but otherwise is all aluminum right now most of the weight comes from the batteries so it's got to gtat batteries in it these are the batteries found in ms is mechanical keyboard equipped laptop the huge gtat Titan or whatever it's called the four thousand dollar laptops with two batteries from that thing a total of twenty-four cells in the lithium-ion batteries and rated for 60 to 90 minutes of VR gameplay actual gaming with quote unquote five hours of normal use I'm not really sure what exactly that means because to me normally use is gaming but I guess if you're using it for sort of 2d desktop type applications then that would be longer use the rest of this so we said custom motherboard MXM video card it is Wireless that's the main thing and then it's got two fans so one fan as intake I think 120 millimeters that's on one side of the backpack one is exhaust on the other side blows through hits the card cools down and that's pretty much all there is for air and cooling right now that we know about requires about 60 minutes to charge the two batteries in there battery is pretty easily swappable so in theory msi will be selling additional battery packs or i guess you probably use something else out there but you'll need an additional battery if you want to do more than an hour of gaming at a time without a charging session in between you still have to shut down of course to switch the battery but it can charge while plain released target second half of 2016 there's yet no name and the immediate competitors are asus check out our Intel coverage from CES so our backpack on the channel you'll find that and I believe there's another company as well it's going to be our backpack but as a product i'll throw in a quick opinion here vr many of you know what I think of that already but as a product we are backpacks I'm it's kinda it's not quite there yet it's an interesting concept it's a very good idea because one of the biggest limiters of the VR is that mobility and the lack of it it's a little bit dangerous in some of the demos people tripping and things like that but 60 to 90 minutes yeah it's a long time in VR still not quite there yet and that will of course increase the lifespan of the plate play time will increase as these gpus and CPUs lower their TDP so that's all for the msi vr backpack at computex 2016 check back shortly for roundups from the show including best video card roundups and things like that cases some other stuff we saw the show thank you for watching as always patreon link the post your video if you want to help us out directly i'll see you all next time