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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom glass for the best darn screen protectors out there as well as hyperx so in the the most unlikely series of events ever I ended up at the oculus booth at CES 2015 I definitely didn't plan to be here at all we're checking out their Crescent Bay prototype which is actually kind of fantastic we're out of the Crystal Cove and we're into the bay now before i get into the awesome experience of this prototype i'm going to talk about the hardware a little bit unfortunately they wouldn't talk to me about any screen improvements but they said it is a better screen although they did say it is ninety hurts now instead of 75 and they wouldn't talk to me about the very specifics of the headphones but i can tell you the the visual experience is quite good i don't think it's one hundred percent ready yet necessarily as when you get close to things you can definitely see the resolution issues but the screen door seriously bad effect we had on DK one is basically solved as at this point now the headphones are spatial audio headphones and they're gonna be releasing their spatial audio sdk for DK to users fairly soon so that people can start programming audio where you you drop an audio effects somewhere in a room and you can hear specifically where it is cool cool cool so if you're coaching below it you can tell you below it etc but these headphones will be removable on the consumer version the CV one and there won't be a development kit version of the Crescent Bay prototype so you don't have to worry about them not being removable on this one the removable headphones will be no big deal you can strap on pretty much whatever you want the tracking on Crescent Bay has gotten a massive massive improvement and this is where i saw a DK 2 lacking the most so i'm very happy that they focused on it they probably realized that themselves not only have they added a ton of ir leds including some around the rim so that you could see the IR LEDs from the back but also on the back of your head in a triangle shape so if you turn completely around it is able to tell what you're doing it until if you have your head tilted it can track you even if you turn around that was a huge issue with DK too because once you got slightly out of the box it would disconnect and once you got a little bit too low it would disconnect but not only is is there more tracking our LEDs but the the framing on the camera is much wider vertically and horizontally so to be able to pick you up if you move out of frame even more and it was very very noticeable and a huge improvement overall now for the experience we weren't allowed to capture footage of the screen so I can't show you exactly what was happening but they had some demo specifically tuned for Crescent Bay and it was pretty freaking fantastic I got Brandon to try it out too because it was just way too cool they look like a dinosaur that would come down and basically each you and they had some crazy FPS battle scenes where you constantly feel like something's going to hit you in the face and both Brandon and I physically dodged the bullet that came for us because while presence in DK one and DK two were quite strong being able to properly stand up and move around in the environment is insane obviously this setup doesn't have full body tracking so I wasn't able to lift my hands up and actually move my hands around but once that comes around gonna be ridiculous because of how much improvement the presence was on this device all right guys I'm super stoked that i finally got to check out the oculus booth thank you guys for watching let me know what you think about the whole cv1 Crescent Bay experience in the comments down below thank you to phantom glass you're sending us here this year and protecting our phones have a pretty cool video coming with them soon that I got to do a little bit of at this booth stay tuned for more also thank you to hyperx are helping us out as well youtube.com slash hyperx you can check out the youtube channel they got about 100,000 subscribers there and they released some pretty cool gaming content so thank you for watching and I'll see you guys next time