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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX so our first video with the razor suite is gonna be the things that I'm actually frankly not that interested in number one is the Nabu X now I talked about the Nabu when they originally announced it back at CES last year and the Nabu X is effectively the lower-cost version of what was already a very reasonably priced wearable device albeit one that didn't have a ton of functionality so the main selling points is something like the Nabu we're gonna be it's got that sort of like privacy mode read your messages on a little oled screen on the inside thing it gives you notifications just like you'd expect any smart wearable that's paired to your phone over Bluetooth would it's got some fitness tracking stuff and then they're building in these social features that I don't know maybe you guys have a lot more friends than I do but I don't know anyone else who wears the same wearable as me in fact I don't have many friends at all so for me it's not much of a selling point but this one depending on the pricing they're saying it's gonna be $49.99 at retail although insiders could get them for as little as $19.99 might be a good balance between ok it doesn't have a lot of functionality but it's also not very expensive so it's got three LEDs on the top they are red green or blue although no color mixing is supported at this time and then basically you configure it within their app to say okay well you know Green is gonna be oh I don't know missed messages and then red is gonna be whatever else when you reach an achievement in your fitness goals then you can get the fireworks to go off and there's there's little ways that you can program it like that it's got a vibration motor and unlike the Nabu I can already say that the build of it seems to be a little bit smarter so it's got more of a watchband style band with lots of different notches so I can actually make it the right size for my wrist even though mine are quite small I had a hard time even getting a watch that was gonna fit me quite right and the overall ruggedness of it the module actually fits inside and it looks like they've built in the capability to potentially upgrade this thing in the future although lord only knows what they would actually do to upgrade it but the module fits inside and then it's got what is effectively the band it makes the band effectively like a protective housing for the thing and it really does seem to be designed to be banged around as long as it's uh within its protective casing they're quoting five to seven days of battery on it which for me is really the magic sweet spot it's the reason that I'm still using a pebble instead of an Android wear device so what do I have to say about this razors gonna have to prove to me that social integration with something like a wearable device like exchanging you know friend contact information by shaking hands with someone or holding wrists with them you know like I have the power to exchange contact information with you or see the last game you played on Steam you're gonna have to prove to me that that's functionality that people care about but in the meantime at least it's affordable if nothing else and they are doing a lot of work on the whole health side of things as well as little as I believe that a health wearable is actually gonna make people healthier they're at least building in support for things like iOS is health app so you're not tied down to just using Razer software on your phone you can actually do other things as well speaking of not being tied down to Razer software this is something I wasn't really expecting to see maybe because I don't pay attention to rumors at all maybe because I'm a caveman shut-in and I don't read anything at all but maybe everyone knew this was coming but this is their OS VR head mounted display and what it is is its OS VR you can tell there's no Razer branding on it whatsoever because OS VR is not Razer owned in the sense that they actually it's not a company that they own this isn't a product that they own they're actually they developed this product and they are open sourcing the whole thing so the idea is that they're open sourcing both the software and even this piece of hardware you'll be able to download an excel sheet with every single component inside this thing and whether it's for personal use like you want to change out the 1080p screen for your own screen if you so desire or whether it's for commercial use and other companies want to jump start their own head mounted display technologies this thing is going to be completely free for anyone to use and develop for and augment or whatever else the case may be now you might be asking yourself well what's in it for Razer than at this point well they've got a couple cool technologies that they hope to be contributing to the via space in general so one of them is a dual lens system that eliminates distortion and also actually what's cool is I believe it's with the knobs on the bottom but don't quote me on that one you can adjust it so that if you have a visual impairment if you need glasses you should be able to use this by adjusting the dials to sharpen the image without glasses and the other thing is I think they're more than anything else hoping to sell people hydras has VR takes off and becomes more and more ubiquitous so what's in it for razor well whether or not they actually release a razor head mounted display is up in the air right now but they will definitely be able to sell peripherals to anyone who's getting into VR and anyone who's getting into VR is gonna need a whole new set of peripherals because that whole keyboard mouse thing does not work very well for VR so whether or not this is a success is is a complete mystery to me because right now I don't think they have any comment pretty much whatsoever from oculus about whether they're gonna support this whole OS VR thing and I would suspect that based on that oculus right now is talking about game games needing to be developed specifically for functionality with the oculus we're gonna be looking at kind of an iOS Android type approach here where oculus might be that more closed system but more tightly integrated and OS VR might be that shaky at the start but who knows what the open-source community can do to polish it over the long term solutions so exciting and I definitely need to actually try it out I'll bring you guys another video trying it out on the floor if I get some time but the future for this one is very very hazy both of these speaking of things that are hazy CES lots of cigarette smoke in the air lots of great content and our trip here would not have been possible without our sponsors phantom glass does it store got phantom dog glass to check out the very best screen protectors we have ever encountered there 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