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the arc MIDI r2 by fractal design features massive air flow and highly flexible liquid cooling support click now to learn more welcome to part 2 of ghetto shield the ghetto shield device has now been completed so we'd love to give you guys a tour of our setup a first slick why don't you walk through the process of creating the ghetto shield okay so what we used for the metal on the back was actually just an old side panel that I had laying around and just grabbed a dremel you can do with like snips or a dremel or in fact I think we recommend you do it with snips probably do it with snips just cut out a shape for us the easiest one was like a really simple T it will probably be the easiest if you just do a really simple T you'll be able to just hand bend it so don't worry about that it's ghetto for a reason so don't worry about that yeah I just chuck it in a vise and then use that to hold it in place while you just bend it well you bend it and then at the almost same time you can use epoxy you epoxy it to the battery pack so that you still have full functionality of your controller and use buy another battery pack insert so you can use this just normally for your xbox or you can use it to be the ghetto shield so then once you have all that bent in place you're gonna have grabbed some velcro cut a strip that's about the length of the T on the back and then just put the gritty side on here and the fuzzy side on here so if you want you can use your phone case although honestly I'd recommend another option we had was getting a like a throwaway phone case yeah so you can clip the phone in and out but then if you use a case anyway having the the fuzzy side of the velcro really isn't that bad I've had this on my phone for like a week now well we've been working on this and it hasn't really bothered me that much so yeah yeah so honestly the best if you want to use this a lot probably just have a permanent foam case for it but it works this way as well ok so then the app then the app so the app is called splash top read it's free you need the mobile version the mobile personal version on your phone and then you need the streaming version on your desktop they're both free really easy to install and don't come along with any adware so that's actually quite nice and then it is tuned more to work for it 800 by 600 not shield which is awesome well we tried twelve of 1280 by 720 and it worked and it was somewhat playable if you're playing a game like a driving game that doesn't really rely on twitch reflexes but you're gonna get flash but okay well if you're playing like an arcade II style casual driving game however for something like a shooter 800 by 600 was much much more responsive so we'll show you guys a real-world demo of what that looks like so vsync I'm going to go back so I'm actually controlling right now so through this dongle right here which is just a regular Xbox 360 wireless dongle for PC if the game it doesn't support full-screen windowed mode it's not going to work with Splashtop it will well you just run windowed mode and then you have stupid UI things which is annoying right yeah okay you should probably find something that works full speed windowed but it will work if you can at least run it in windowed mode okay so let's go ahead and and sort of showcase its its combat worthy now it should be noted that this is not a drop-in replacement for a shield shield has a custom UI for launching games you may have noticed that our computer here has to be running at 800 by 600 in order to get this working wear a shield allows you to just stream from that desktop without funking up all of your settings it doesn't have the same kind of battery life as shield it doesn't have the same kind of battery life as shield you're just using the battery life of your phone and of course there's this sort of whole clunky solution but there are some advantages number one is you can use an Nvidia or an AMD graphics card totally doesn't matter in fact even for Nvidia graphics cards you have to use Kepler with shield whereas with this you can use use anything because every time it's just grabbing the image that's on your desktop it doesn't care what your graphics card is which is quite nice which is very cool so I'm actually playing right now here I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to move over here so you guys can actually see what the gameplay experience looks like somewhat here we'll do a side-by-side comparison to show the latency which is actually quite minimal in this setup so we have a fairly optimal game which is running fullscreen window like we're talking about previously and then 800 by 600 it's it's pretty nice so the other cool thing about our implementation is that one of the advantages of shield is it has a real a good wireless solution well we're using wireless AC because the HTC one happens to support wireless AC if you have a Galaxy s4 or an HTC One they both support this particular standard so we are able to get pretty reasonable Lego there's a jump so you guys can see what that looks like so we're able to get pretty reasonable throughput although like I said before 1280 by 720 really didn't perform well enough that I'd call it usable now I'm not a great first person shooter player when it comes to controllers anyway but I think there's some baddies coming here we go boom boom boom boom boom so disregard them this is yeah assume that the misses are because I can't aim not because it's too leggy to use because it actually isn't it's very cool so don't think of this as a replacement for shield think of this is more like a test her to see if you like it yeah see if you like the idea instead of spending three hundred dollars spend three dollars like including the cost of the glue to make the thing and find out if it's even something that you'd care about and it's it's kind of a fun little project it was fairly entertaining to cut a side panel and strap it to a controller and play a computer game on my phone and this all assumes that you actually have an Xbox 360 controller in the first place which not everyone will we figured there's probably a way to get it working with a wired one using an on-the-go cable that that will work but you will only be able to play Android games for now on here on here there's a new thing of streaming software I forgot to point out that sound is streamed as well from the PC and you can have it you can have it come through the PC and you're playing on here so if you're in the same room and you have a nice sound system or you can just push it to the phone or there's there's tons of different settings there's another program that people are oh I guess person it's a single guy is working on a contra of the name of it right now and don't have it brought up but it is going to be able to send controller input through the phone to the computer and do the same type of dealy so eventually you'll be able to have a wired controller plugged into your phone through an OTG cable and then be able to play games without using this somewhat fairly difficult to use don't move so there you go guys that is project ghetto shield Thank You slick for making this possible no problem it's actually kind of cool it works surprisingly well I'm not good don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos don't forget to comment on this video let us know what you think of the ghetto shield and don't forget to like this video if you think slick has fantastic hair or dislike it if you don't like his beard