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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western Digital hey guys we're at the huge massive glorious Sony booth checking up their head mounted display and this really caught my eye because when I first saw it I actually thought it had something to do with oculus but it's not really like oculus so what's the main differences I can't I can't speak for what it's not I can't speak to what it is this is our second generation of the head-mounted viewer the hmz t3w it's it replicates really an indoor theater but it just sits on your face what's different about this one than its predecessor it's completely portable so we were talking earlier about gaming gaming is a truly immersive experience in this but so is watching a movie or what have you projects the equivalent of 150 inch movie screen from about 12 feet away so sipping this thing on when you're on the airplane plugging in your audio the content source for the video whether it be from your tablet your phone PC or what have you sit back on the plane and enjoy a truly immersive the movie experience so essentially wherever you go if you have an HDMI plug you consume whatever media is on-air essentially yeah here at the CES demonstrations we're doing where we have a plugged into both the PlayStation 4 and then tablets and mobile phones it takes an HDMI IN so if you're going from a tablet or what have you I might use a MHL to HDMI connection or if you're coming from your cable box at home HDMI HDMI perfect now they have two demos here one standing demo one sitting demo the standing demo you were just consuming content of a movie and that was really interesting because like you said on the plane in a car ride if you're in the backseat hopefully not the front seat wherever you are you can consume me to media very easily and very well it's it's I was surprised because when I tried out the oculus I know sorry the picture quality's not quite there yet I know they're not released on all that kind of stuff but you can definitely see the pixels on this one it was it was different I could see things very clearly the display was really good now can you tell me more about the display yeah the displays are two OLED panels and there are inches away from your eye there's 720p panels engineers tell me that the reason they're not 1080p is there to be a wasted resolution since those panels are so close to your eyes so twin OLED panels inches away with knows in between it just great 3d so when this this product first came out in the u.s. we called it the 3d viewer people thought well I don't want to watch 3d you don't have to so now we name it they have not this play that was probably pretty smart because when I first said 3d viewer that's exactly what I thought it was when I was playing the game it's it's you weren't necessarily controlling the car I know that's not necessarily a thing yet but may possibly be in the future but it was cool because the car was ripping down the racetrack and you could look around as if you were the guy in the in the vehicle so looking around checking everything out and with that crisp of a display like it's it's interesting because oculus the one I've tried it's also 720p and this is 720 120 feet but it's a completely different experience oculus you can see the pixel grid like I said early on this one you cannot so it's definitely awesome and I definitely recommend trying it out so the convention closed all we're trying to finish our sony head map to display video so we returned to canada i retired the suit and now we're finishing it up for those of you that are looking for an oculus this is not an oculus in my opinion if you're looking for an extremely immersive VR experience you should probably be going with an oculus if you're looking for a really high-end media consumption device say if you're using a lot of public transit or something like that this is a really good idea it's really nice for movies the picture quality is amazing but it does have a price tag as well it's looking around $1,000 plus depending on where you live I know a few of you Europeans are not going to be exactly happy with the price tag at the end of the conversion rate and stuff like that but it is a really high-end device OLED displays 720p that close to your face looks great etc etc thank you for watching our CES 2014 content if you want to see the rest of our CES 2014 content I would navigate to the channel and view everything before this because I think this is going to be the last video if you want to see all the rest of our content that we're gonna be releasing for 2014 as a whole I would subscribe to Linus tech tips and thank you to our sponsors title sponsor NCIX WD and Corsair as well