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so valve has released the steam hardware survey upon the world they've given a way for us hardware enthusiasts to weigh and measure ourselves to see if we are actually worthy of VR and it's left some of us kind of wanting how it runs this test as it does the portal VR demo where it just expands a little machine and you have to try to look at it and what not but just has a static camera that moves around when it's done it will serve you your results whether or not you are ready capable or not ready Tunnel bear is the easy-to-use VPN service that lets use the web as if you're in 20 different countries learn more and try to bear for free at the link in the video description so yeah it's spoiler alert not that good-looking only nine point four percent of people have actually made it through if you look down below that it will tell you the results the results will tell you how to upgrade your system in order to become ready if you expand lower than that it will tell you how many frames were encoded how many frames were above ninety FPS which is extremely important considering VR screens are usually ninety Hertz plus will tell you how many frames were dropped by your CPU and the average fidelity of the scene or the graphical quality that it was able to accomplish while running through the entire scene so yeah nine point four percent of people actually slightly lower than that already based on the steam hardware survey so get rekt I guess we've been saying this for a long time on Linus tech tips the hardware community is not actually up there enough for VR people complain about the cost of headsets but their computers aren't even ready but let's take a sec and actually analyze where those numbers came from the steam hardware survey is it up to snuff the steam hardware survey is a simple but very powerful tool you submit your data to valve they total it put percentages of how many people are running wet on it and make it publicly available great tons of people use it we Atlantis Media Group use it we use it to quantify how many people are going for what card what chip what brand whatever and then discuss that in videos or the LAN show from time to time it's a pretty interesting concept and I we will continue to do that in the future another group of people that uses it game devs they use it to target what hardware they need to prepare their game for is it a very high end very high fidelity game while they probably need to target whatever the highest percentage of high end cards are that kind of makes sense it's a relatively simple concept but does it make sense for VR does the hardware survey actually apply properly to VR I would argue no because there's too much garbage data what is garbage data well I for one fall in this category I have probably about seven computers in the steam hardware survey but probably one of them actually exactly one of them is only intended for VR none of the other ones will ever probably do anything in the VR space they're there to play stuff like papers please or minecraft or counter-strike or Team Fortress and those rigs should not be in a percentage system in order to figure out the amount of computer is ready for VR I understand that's not what the steam hardware survey is but that's where the 9.4% came from and people have been saying for a long time including me that the community isn't ready to get an accurate representation of the gaming communities readiness for VR you need a lot of data to get a lot of this data you need a lot of people and you need a lot of hardware I'm only one man so I don't fix that category but I do have a bunch of hardware there's a problem there as well though I have a bunch of bleeding-edge current generation hardware I don't have the interesting bits like the i-5 2500 in the GTX 680 which sold a bunch and might actually still be able to skim buy into that ready category that's interesting I want to figure out what is just going to be able to make it here we specialize in things like $30,000 computers and computers that fit into bombs they're fun but they're don't really matter a ton in this data set I don't need to reaffirm that really expensive really over built modern current generation gaming hardware is able to run VR we get that it's the more interesting data that I'm looking for this is where you come in we need the community to come together and make a massively collaborative benchmarking project so we can see where the enthusiasts community is sitting in terms of VR performance we can do this on the forum the line effective community forum jumper one one eight has already done something similar with Cinebench he has an awesome thread with over 500 submissions of people Cinebench scores that's super cool I've used those results in videos in the past before and I'm not looking to sell this data before anyone in the comments freaks out this is all publicly available stuff we're not selling it I'm just one - active calm form because it's easy so yeah please submit your test results there we can see how our community is ready for VR because I'm pretty sure it's higher than nine point four percent so don't worry if you have a low-end rig if you're running multiple cards whatever it happens to be if you're remotely interested in VR or high-end gaming at all submit your rig and let's figure it out crunchyroll is a site created by anime fans for anime fans they offer the most current episodes of new shows straight from Japan like Mobile Suit Gundam iron blooded orphans and a race they also have a large collection of the most popular anime series like say Naruto or one piece and all of the content on their site is professionally subtitled head over to crunchyroll.com slash Linus and you can sign up for a 30 day free trial of crunchyroll premium if you enjoy the many benefits of premium like 1080p streaming getting new episodes of shows straight from Japan within an hour of their premiere and being able to stream anywhere anytime on a variety of devices like your phone tablet game console computer whatever you can continue your crunchyroll Premium Membership for only 695 per month so head over to crunchyroll.com slash Linus and check them out thanks for watching guys like the video if you liked the video dislike the video if you dislike the video don't forget to go on the forum and submit your test results I'm really interested what the result of this whole project is going to be also don't forget to subscribe don't forget to use our Amazon affiliate code to buy cool things on Amazon become a contributor of the Linus tech tips com forum while you're there submitting your test results and you can buy a cool t-shirt from us down in the description down below anyways if you want to see another cool video check out here another mystery video I think these should all kind of be mystery videos to be honest but anyways click OH