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yeah what about it go ahead and make your jokes get it out of the way so we can get into today's topic without all of the the jokes go and make them make them good if you're going to at least want to laugh when I read them what's up guys Jase two cents here and after experiencing plenty of demos and then heading to e3 lately where I kind of got to see the latest and greatest coming our way when it comes to virtual reality obviously the HTC vive is out the oculus rift is still trying to make it out to people who bought them and then Sony coming out with its VR later this year I was like you know what I'm sick and tired of not being on this bandwagon so I hit it over to Micro Center last week and I spent 800 bucks on my own HTC vive yeah 800 bucks it's not cheap which is why I'm making this video I had no intentions of making a video I just wanted to enjoy it but the morning I enjoyed it the more I wanted to share it with you guys and help you decide whether or not this is something you should spend your money on this cost as much as most people's entire computer setup so is it worth it well guys let's talk about setup and let's talk about well how it is yeah that's what we're gonna do today what are you doing ice thought it's time for an upgrade that's little J's Xbox ah much better how did you even get in here yes made a key last time I was here no big deal well I could go for a drink right about now though I kind of feel like you've already done this whole living room thing before no there's a different channel these are horrible man well you are breaking and entering no not I've witnesses the new defined nan OS from fractal design supports full-size power supplies full-length graphics cards room for a complete custom water loop and heck even room for a couple of freeloaders click the link in the description for more details fractal Josh not included we should order pizza now everyone talks about the vibe it's so cool virtual reality is here it's lag free etc etc but not enough people are talking about the setup so that's where I'm going to start today's video because the setup is the most important part considering it is responsible for the entire experience of the yard if you have a poor setup your VR experience is going to be poor and everyone complaining about this or that should probably be making sure they actually set the thing up properly before they start taking to the forums and bitching I think more people need to do that about all kinds of things not just the vibe but I digress obviously HTC includes everything you need to enjoy enjoy VR it's got two base stations it's got obviously the headset it's got both of the hand held devices the hand wands I know what they actually call them it's got power cords power plugs thang extension cables it even comes with a set of earbuds so that you can hear in VR what's the point of having sound coming from one space if you're moving freely it doesn't work that way so stereo is actually very very important when it comes to VR now first things first we're setting up your vibe you need to determine where your space is going to be where are you going to play it it supports three modes sitting standing and room scale now obviously I'm set up for room scale in the setup process for any of the three is going to be the same so where as I'm showing you room scale here you can apply this to any of the three options now when decide where you want to set up your vibe you want to make sure you're clear any obstructions now although tripping and falling will be funny and laughing and everyone's hahaha yo you fell on your face it's not funny to just you know cause damage to an $800 unit and unless you are extremely rich and you can just afford to buy these from end-on-end I don't think you should you should go falling down so make sure your space is obstructed from any sort of trip hazards now the cord itself is also a trip hazard but we'll talk about that a little bit later in the setup but once you've got your space identified and where you want to play you're going to want to set up the base stations in two opposing corners of that space so diagonally that's at least ideal now you do want these things to be in optical range of each other you want them to be able to see each other and you want to mount these at least six and a half feet off the ground because you don't want any sort of eye level obstructions other bookshelves may be chairs or couches to cause them to not be able to track properly so the higher they are the more head level or above the better they're going to track so keep that in mind but when you place these in the corners of your space you also want them to be facing down at about a 45 degree angle because they do have a sort of a cone shape at which they can track and so you want these to be your like how do caning each other of you will let's imagine that in VR woojae coming at you there alright that was really stupid so you want these to account for about a 120 degree angle of width and then about a 45 degree angle down so that they are kind of covering the entire rectangle that you're setting up especially in my case for room scale now you want them to be too far apart anything more than about 15 feet apart it's going to warn you that they're going to have some problems seeing each other optically which means I could have used a cable to connect the two but again the cable wasn't long enough to do that so I just ended up moving one to the bookshelf and then all of the tracking issues I had went away and everything worked pretty flawlessly now because I don't want wife aggro I want the set up to look clean I ended up going over to Lowe's and buying some small channelings so that I could put basically make a frame around my white window with the white channeling and then the wire is pretty much hidden with the exception of where it sticks out at the bottom and then plugs into the wall but that's a lot less of an eyesore than having a black cable draped across a beige wall go and spend the twenty bucks or whatever this cost it makes things a whole lot easier so once the base stations are installed you go ahead and plug the link box into your system using the included HDMI cable the power cable and as well as a USB extension cable and you want to plug all those into the black side or the side that's not Orange and it goes into your PC the side that's orange is dedicated for your headset now you can plug those same plugs from the headset into the link box on the orange side and then that's going to control the headset itself so the next thing you're going to do is you're going to install steamvr and that's a free download obviously and that is a software that's going to control the headset it's also going to link any of your games with steam that support VR automatically and it's going to say play in VR if the option is there now the next thing you have to do is actually set up your play area so what you're going to do is you can take your headset set it in the middle of the room you're going to take the controllers set them on the floor and launch the VR room setup it's a pretty simple program it actually guides you through setting up your space it's very very easy at one point you're going to actually trace the room with the controller while holding the button so it's going to learn the boundaries and it could set up the chaperone grid which keeps you from running into things and as long as you do a proper set up and you make sure that that space is unobstructed every time you play then you're not going to have any sort of problem now the cool thing about the headset is it actually has its own audio three-and-a-half millimeter plug attached to it so not only can you use the earbuds with shake which they come with I don't actually recommend it when the sound quality was okay but the earbuds tend to fall out and the last thing you want to do is go sherry earbuds with other people because you know you're going to want to play this with other people and share the experience with them so I just ended up using a set of headphones I think in this case I used a set of HyperX cloud twos and then just use those because it's a lot easier to share headphones that it is to share earbuds that's just disgusting especially in the summer but now that you're set up you can actually enjoy some free stuff that comes with VR now with HTC vive comes the lab and the lab is really cool it's got a bunch of different stations where you can take an orb and put it on your head and experience a bunch of different things there's a game called longbow which is really really fun in fact I've spent so much time on that where you pretty much are it's like a tower defense game you're an archer standing on this tower you can set the arrows fire you can blow up TNT barrels as hordes or waves of horde come at you and try and beat down the castle gates and your job is obviously to shoot them with the bow and arrow now you got to have be strategic about this they come in different positions here and you want to use you know the various things that are in the map for you to help blow them up sparingly because you only get it once each wave and every time a wave starts then you can you get a reset on those but that is a super fun game it's like VR tower defense and it actually gets tired you keep drawing this bow you keep knocking the arrow and drawing this bow and you get tired because even though you're in VR you forget that it's just free space you actually are flexing as you pull this bow back and you're kind of going man this is this is getting this is getting hard here and yeah that's what she said but it's a lot of fun and it's actually a good amount of exercise depending on what you're playing you you're up and out of a chair which is a good thing now another game that I tried out and it is it's just one of the things that I always thought would make VR extremely cool is a game called a chair in a room today you will perform simple memory test in front of you is a ball and three cups I would like you to hide the ball under any of the cups move it around and reveal the ball I will observe your progress basically it's like living a horror movie now you would think oh the graphics aren't that great but once you put on VR the graphics it takes a second place to the immersion and you can imagine things like jump scares or games where objects move on their own and it gets very loud you have a headset on and it's loud and things are jumping at you and it you react accordingly and sometimes you forget you're in fear in fact I almost fell in coconut monkey was laughing at me because this thing happened and I jumped and I almost fell over and it was you forget you totally forget you're in VR which is I think a testament to how good the experience is because if you can forget you're in VR then it's doing its job if you're constantly thinking to yourself oh whatever and this VR okay it's laggy then the experience just isn't going to be very good you're going to you're going to forget that you're in VR or you're going to forget that you are playing a game you're going to be stuck on the shitty experience but that hasn't been the case with the HTC vive now I am 3ds sensitive I don't watch 3d movies I have a 3d TV I never turn on 3d I don't go to 3d movies they give me a headache and I think that's because I'm very farsighted and when you take something and stick it on your face that can tend to mess with someone has vision like mine very very very farsighted and putting something close to me tends to cause me a lot of optical issues but that doesn't happen with the vibe and that's why I went out and bought it because every demo I went and experienced it was just constantly a good experience no headaches no issues whatsoever that game I just told you about called a chair in a room I spent four hours on it last night four hours in VR and didn't have any issues whatsoever other than the fact that I kept jumping and screaming like a girl and yeah it's so good and it's so scary not the game but the experience that the experience of being in this horror game you watch it on the screen as someone's playing it because you can mirror the screen and you can see and hear what they hear and see what they see it's not the same whatsoever there's this level coconut monkey was playing in it it's like dark and attend this Chapel and the lighting is real bad no flashlight and you're looking around he's he's like no what I want to do is I wanna do this because coconut monkeys kind of a bit kind of a chicken kind of a baby you know huh I love the guy but I can say that he's he's really a chicken he doesn't watch scary movies he doesn't like roller coasters or any of that stuff so at one point is like no can't do this took the headset off and I'm going you big baby what the heck's the problem this isn't all that whoa okay yeah this is a hell of a lot scarier in VR than it is because when you're in a room like this and it's lip and you're looking at a screen and you're moving a mouse you're like oh yeah it's you're focusing on this spot but you still are cognizant the fact that you're in a lit room is for whatever you put the headset on it's dark the sound is is very realistic that the sound is in VR as well so it's tracking of when you move your head and where it's coming from is extremely accurate just like it is in real life yeah it really starts to screw with you what I find interesting about the vibe though is when I show my friends the vibe and they try it out they're like woah this is so cool oh wow the only thing and you're enjoying it because you have a history to pay how old you are you have a history of games and evolution to where my day the first console I ever owned was an in television and then an Atari 2600 and then a Commodore 64 and and schr an NES I'm an SNES and NES a Nintendo Entertainment System and I see how far we've come and I look at this and I go this is just so freakishly unimaginable I can't believe I'm experiencing this but what's funny is when I take my seven-year-old Little J bring her up here and put it on and she starts playing it she just immediately starts playing the game and it's like yeah this is cool neat oh look bow and arrow yeah that's cool whoa look a puppy you know she doesn't get all oh and all like wow this is so cool because she doesn't have she doesn't have any sort of of real baseline to determine where we've come from so to her this really cool stuff is just normal it's just normal to her so I really found that interesting I kind of thought my daughter's going like wow but no the older the person who tries it out the more wow they are and it's funny too because I said I should get my dad to try this because my dad's turning 74 and it's like what would he think of this and it's funny my wife goes you might give him a heart attack so don't know make him play the scary games now I know this isn't like an in-depth guide to the HTC vive I just kind of wanted to share my experience to show you what the setup was like and hopefully allow you guys to determine whether or not this is something that's worth it to you it's not cheap by any means 800 bucks like I said that's as much as most people have to spend on their entire computer setup and your computer has to be able to run it as well so it's a minimum of $100 investment if your computer is already ready for VR and the better the graphics cards and stuff you have for VR the better the experience is going to be right now I have it running off the 1080 amp though or the zotac amp extreme and I have no issues with fps or drop frames or any of that but again you know if you're if you're running a lower-end graphics card you're going to have a lower-end VR experience which you can't blame on the headset so definitely run the VR experience app in the steam to make sure your VR ready and at least go from there because if you have to spend 800 bucks on the headset and another 3 or 400 bucks on a graphics card then you've got to update other stuff then you're looking at a lot of money and only you can answer whether or not that's worth it anyway guys thanks for watching today's video hope you've learned something about the vibe today if you want to see anything specific with the vibe let me know I might even consider doing some live streaming with the vibe because it's it is ridiculously fun and I wish everybody could experience this so yeah if you guys have an opportunity to go and try one at some sort of a gaming event or anywhere they're showing off the vibe do it trust me at least do it to see whether or not you're sensitive to it and whether it makes you sick I'm usually sensitive it doesn't make me sick so that's what made this a whole lot of fun anyway guys thanks for watching as always I will see you in the next video