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Linus tech tips coverage of PAX East 2014 is brought to you by Intel and Corsair alright guys we here at oculus rift at PAX East you all moose was coming I held myself off as long as I could but it is now day two and I couldn't stay away any longer I got to try out their couch nights demo which was really good it was really fun to play any comparison to make during this video we'll be comparing to a development kit one not the HD prototype or the crystal pro prototype development kit one to see you guys know right off the bat the pixel grid is still noticeable at 1080p but we kind of expected that it is a lot easier to look past though than it was on development kit one you could look past it on development kit one but it still always looks like you're looking through a screen door this one you notice the pixels at first but once you get engaged with the game they kind of disappear and it's not actually too bad although I am still definitely excited for kind of 4k screens or two and half days screens in these VR devices the other most noticeable thing when you actually start playing with it is presents when you lean forward or if you move your head forward or you till your head side to side or any of that kind of stuff it actually reacts to that due to the tracking IR LEDs any external camera that they have now set up and that feels great and it feels natural and it really makes you feel like you're actually in the game despite sitting on a couch playing with nights that are on the table which is not happening in reality but it still actually is a lot more engaging and really increases the presence that you feel within maybe our environment another interesting question I had was about the external camera that we first saw introduced on the crystal code prototype and is now on DK 2 or this guy right here the external camera which I can't show you right now is tracking IR LEDs that are built into the front of the development kit too and if you were to play something like a Valkyrie and tried to do a back flip so you lean too far backwards and essentially took the headset like this how's the tracking IR LEDs going to work if the camera can't see them properly and if you were someone who bought an omni or has an omni already or is getting one in the future how is that going to work because if the tracking camera is set up at one fixed position and you turn around so you're not facing him anymore and the head sets like this to the camera that's going to be a serious problem and the answer to that was that they're targeting a seated position they have to be able to conquer what's on the table now before they move forward and what's on the table now is a seated position so hopefully in the future you can do stuff like holodecks while you're running around jumping over things and you could stand and you can crouch and you could crawl and you can do all that kind of stuff but for now the oculus experience is going to be seated so if you're someone that's getting an ami or someone that plans to be flipping around or mobile with the oculus that's not actually the experience they're targeting right now so just a heads up all right guys so I think the conclusion of this is that I'm not canceling my dk2 order if you will let me know let me know in the comments below let me know in the forum let me know on Twitter at slick PC I want to know what you guys think about this demo we showed you as much as we could now other than strapping the camera into an oculus rift cuz that would not work very well but oh well I had a great time it looks great the presence of being up leaned forward and backward is great low persistence on the oil ad panel is awesome I got to experience that as well and the fast 75 Hertz refresh rate is also great so let me know what you think about all those things in the same areas I told you previously thank you for watching if you want to see all of our PAX East content be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips and as always thanks for watching