Gadgetory

and so we at my Onix want to revolutionize gaming and giving real-time statistics to players about their heartbreak their excitement levels so they can be more immersed into their game play with the Neos QG by my onyx labs oh my god another gaming gimmick making the mouse more expensive who needs a heart rate sensor monitor and GSR sensor what is it yes our sensor anyway anything these days that will go into a gaming product to make it more high-end or leet or whatever but yeah that's the whole idea it's so ambitious we've never seen anything like this before having a heart rate sensor on the gaming peripheral might sound gimmicky but you know I might want to control or monitor my heart rate during certain types of games like sure it's kinetic cool and for streamers - if I'm streaming right now for example I want to give my viewers that extra authenticity of my reactions to what's happening inside the game definitely and the unique element for the viewer and the audience to experience while I game and so those are the three camps not including my Onix about their reactions to the Neo sqg and the heart rate sensor which camp do you belong to and I wonder if your opinion will change after watching this video and if it does let us know in the comments below let's get on with the review this could be you every time you turn on your PC super-chill CPU happy you crackin x61 ye NZXT purchase discount in the description below so it's been two years since the Kickstarter campaign was launched it was funded and now the mayor's QG or quantified gaming mouse is finally in my hands I was actually one of the early backers as well so I actually bought this mouse because I absolutely loved the nails design the shape the format is excellent so first of all the QG edition is now a different color it comes in math gray it hides oil stains a little bit better versus the black and the switches are the same to the original but the sensor is now upgraded the Pixar 3360 versus the 3310 on the original and then the reason why you buy this are the two new sensors beside the logo the heart rate sensor and a GSR sensor that measures excitement first let's talk about the tech and its placement on the mouse because that is the most crucial thing about this product the green laser here is a Pixar heart rate sensor with up to 3,000 frames per second and six point eight megahertz frequency it's green because our blood absorbs green light so when the heart beats blood flow increases and more of that green light is absorbed so the sensor measures the change in green light absorption and determines the heart rate that way now compared to my s7 the BPM is very close and calculations have been a little bit inconsistent sometimes it finishes in 10 seconds while other times it says it's almost ready but really not picking up anything for a few minutes but when it does you have a live heart rate measurement on your screen as long as you're making contact with that sensor which is the most crucial element about the knee sqg which unfortunately for me it doesn't work so I have large hands and I prefer a hybrid grip where the right side of my palm touches the mouse body with this semi claw fingers while the left side of the mouse where the heart rate sensor is located it's kind of at a weird angle and too low on the body for my hand to actually make contact with and apparently I'm an outlier in this position because my Onix obviously did there research and figured out for the majority this was the best placement to accommodate for all types of hand sizes and only palm grips so my hybrid grip doesn't really fit that description so for smaller hands less than mine and for palm grip the sensor would be okay and I gotta be honest it's quite unfortunate that this placement doesn't work for me I thought that the sensor would go under the thumb buttons where you know your thumb is always setting regardless of hand size or on the right curve behind the dpi change buttons and I consider those spots to be sort of like safe spots where contact with the skin is guaranteed now the sensor is high-quality it will pick up heartbreak regardless of skin color regardless of moisture on the skin and you can have a little bit of spacing between the skin and the sensor so like one to two millimeters is okay but in the case of my grip style the readout would not be recognized and I just couldn't figure out a better way to hold the mouse for the sensor to work again so unfortunate so let's talk about the second sensor the GSR sensor which makes perfect contact with my skin I really wish these were just flopped because this one is more of a let's put it in the mouse why not type of feature it's called the galvanic skin response sensor which measures excitement based on conductivity of your skin and this one is less important because for it to be accurate you need to be totally still so if I pinch my leg for example you can see the spike with GSR picking up something but it really is kind of pointless since it always detects something when you move the mouse the biggest question most likely from the community would be why why is there a heart rate sensor on a mouse what's the point the biggest target here or maybe the only target would be streamers right now because to give my viewers that extra element of like you know authenticity so they can see my heart rate while I'm gaming so that if I'm playing something super scary and my heart rate goes up you know I'm scared you can have that extra observational element giving audience your heart rate BPM so that they're aware if your your heart rate is rising based on certain levels of the game with really to show during really scary genres would be really awesome for competitive gameplay too from an observational standpoint so you can see if certain players on the team are more calm than others to see if heart rate increase corresponds to a poor performance or vice-versa and you can sort of extrapolate that information to coach potential competitive game gamers to do better in certain matches in certain situations but beyond this observational element right now there exists no good system to you know track your heart rate see when it was peeking see the average see the lowest and see how it was interacting during a certain gameplay you have a little bit of that in the statistics tab in the beta software but it's just too little of a glimpse of what is happening with your heart rate at the specific session for example here's a three hour gaming session you can see my heart rate is all over the place but corresponding perfectly well with clicks per second and here's another one for csgo and these sessions are automatically created so I would like some manual track feature that will allow me to create these graphs based on my in and out points now the good thing is the hardware is working well it's the software that needs to catch up they've already updated the firmware that drastically improves the time it takes to detect your heart rate so that's great and they're taking feedback on what the what users want to see in the final driver software or out of beta software for example right now we don't even have surface calibration yet but all the button customization dpi and color are working fine right now the overlay is done through the overwolf app that the super basic so you have three color choices but the promise is for this ecosystem to really grow and allow you to show a lot more information on that circle or cycle between some information I just really wish the sensors were swapped because as of right now the heart rate sensor doesn't make contact with my skin and I hope one of the very few assembling your verdaguer gaming chair just got a whole lot easier with a simple insert mechanism off the back seat onto the side rails so you mount the side screws much faster a true one-man job assembly made easy for a year but I'm very interested to hear what you guys think about this product especially if you're a streamer is it a cool thing to display for your audience and if you're watching somebody stream is it a cool thing to to see their heart rate you know maybe spiking up very high and you're wondering if they're healthy or not and maybe should stop playing but like all this information especially if you extrapolate in temporal scales of seeing heart rates over time for certain games and it would be really cool as the software matures to see you know when we are more stressed out when we're most chilled out which what does our heart do and like in 3-hour gaming sessions and one hour gaming session and etc I would love to continue this conversation in the comment section below who is very interesting for my own to observe my own heart rate going from 70 to 90 and casual gaming and over a hundred in competitive gaming so all that is very interesting but again you gotta ask if this is a cool thing of value added for your audience because this whole thing isn't really for personal use it's more of an observational perspective from like a third party viewership so let us know if your mind has changed based on your initial expectations what you thought the news coogee would be versus what you think it is now I'm Dimitri with our Canucks thanks so much for watching keep updated in the comments section because I will be giving my thoughts on new driver releases and firmware updates so guys thanks much watching we'll see you in the next video