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hey what's up guys mkbhd here and today I visited the Google pop-up store in lower Manhattan and it turned out to be pretty dope it's actually like super photogenic so I'm putting it together into this quick video for those of you who can't visit and want to see it now you can worried if you can go you can check this out so they're not actually selling anything here it's pretty much just for display and demo purposes so they're calling it a pop-up shop but I mean it's a pretty elaborate pop-up shop if you ask me but yeah basically they have it set up with different targeted areas around where each one shows a different made by Google product now on the wall in the front is this big wall of Google colored swiveling blocks and it looks pretty normal at first but kind of swivel to display different messages which is cool but when you walk past it I don't I don't want to ruin the surprise of how it's done but basically there are sensors in the room that will move the blocks to follow you it's actually super entertaining I feel like you could play with it for hours if you wanted to it's about the most pointless but coolest damn thing I've seen in a while okay over here you can see a literal photosphere made of tablets to demonstrate google photos and search ability which is low key one of Google's best products right now then there's the Google home section the whole Google home section is sort of this mock-up home set up with a bunch of normal things you might expect to see in a home or an apartment now my full google home review is coming up so you'll see everything you need to know about that product pretty soon but yeah they basically planted different prompts around and had an actual Google home in there so you can walk around the room and go through these prompts and have it answer you and perform these actions which is pretty helpful they also outs I had a bunch of Google homes and all the different colors to look at they were all unplugged obviously but you can see they're supposed to give you a sense of how easy it is to change the colors of the base if you're into that and then they had this low-light photo area and this was all to highlight the pixels camera so you can bring your own phone in there if you want and try to take pictures but it'll be pretty dim obviously but with this minimal lighting you can bring the pixel in there and I'm sure a few other smartphones would have been decently as well but this was like a prime low-light photo test for the pixel to perform well and it looks really good it crushed it so that was fun to play with now outside of that was my personal favorite area the VR section to demo the daydream view that just came out so you can see the whole area is themed like the daydream view home and all the graphics and you can see you can basically just step right up sit down on one of these swiveling rock stools put on daydream view headset and grab the controller and go to town and again the whole point is to give people a demo so most people still haven't really tried good VR yet you know like they may have heard of it but 99% of people haven't tried an oculus or a PlayStation VR or revive and even I still haven't tried all the ones I want to so this was an easy way for people to just walk in and get a demo trial in the headset watch some videos play some games and decide if they're into it and I guess a lot of people were so that was my favorite area but probably if you ask what other people's favorite area is it's just the pixel demo area it's a bunch of pixels sitting on a desk or on a table you remember how I said this is a phone you actually have to use to understand how good it is well I guess here you can pick up and use a pixel or pixel XL for yourself it's obviously still attached to the security tether but you can use Android 7.1 try the assistant and all his glory this is apparently like the most popular thing to do here and that was pretty much it I actually showed up a little before it opened to torrid so that's why it looked pretty empty no one's here but right when they opened it people open the doors and we're walking in and checking it out if I'm reviewing this thing I'm giving it like an a-minus like I was really happy with how photogenic it is obviously this LED lit beam in the middle here which doubles as a huge softbox made the lighting kind of on point um I kind of wish you could try the pixels with less of a security tether but hey for a pop-up shop that's open for a couple weeks this is sick I say check it out if you can like if you're on the area hopefully you enjoyed this quick video of all of it thanks for watching thanks for Google for having me over and I'll talk to you guys in the next video peace