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what's up guys Ron free to hear from TechnoBuffalo and at the end of last week we got the new HTC vive and to give it a shot try it out and see what's up so first off obviously was the setup and unboxing and I gotta say this is not a plug-and-play system Andrew and Niven and Ralph's for the three people who set it up Friday evening after work and there was a lot of trouble they had setting it up one sensor would sync up while the other would unsink and then the same thing happened with remotes there was a lot of troubleshooting he took them about three hours total so this is definitely not for your average consumer moving on you're gonna have concerns about space when we first set us up we did it in our editing Bay which is a normal sized room with a couple tables and a TV but you're gonna need more space than that and the space is gonna have to be empty you're gonna need about 5 to 15 feet of separation between both sensors so we had to end up moving outside and speaking of space they're also gonna need to have your PC tethered so just bear that in mind you're gonna have to move your computer into the same room as your VR set and it can't just be any old computer you're gonna need a very high-end PC here are the specs required and for Apple users you are going to be out of luck because steamvr is not yet available on Mac sorry but the real question is was it worth it after all this drama and before I explain my experience I gotta say I was very skeptical before using the vibe because I've used some other VR headsets and the low quality build really ruins the experience but this is what makes the vibe so different there's very very little light leak it works extremely well there's a little bit of blurring or on sort of the edges of your vision but once you're in it once you spend about 1 or 2 minutes you really get immersed in the world there's no real way to explain it it's just something you have to feel for yourself I got to try out a variety of games from being in an office and making VR coffee to sort of flying through space and creating many moons and then heating up and burning them as well as saw some metal ribs off I think I'll keep my slicing and cutting skills to the Timeline not necessarily someone's organs it didn't go so well the best thing I can probably say about using the vibe is that it's built and designed so well that after probably 10 minutes 5 minutes even less maybe of using it you just forget that it's there you just sort of blend into the experi the remotes the tracking it's all so fluid the screen looks super sharp for the most part especially compared to other VR headsets it's really a pleasurable experience and probably the biggest highlight for HTC here that really differentiates them from someone like oculus who uses the Xbox controller they use two hand remotes and I love this where an Xbox controller might be a little more intuitive for traditional gamers these two remotes make it so that you just feel like you have hands and it just makes it really natural to interact with the world in front of you once you're in the VR space picking up coffee mugs typing on keyboard answering the phone moving the moon might not be so natural but it feels good once you figure it out and the last thing I was really concerned about before using the vibe was comfort you're wearing a pretty heavy headset for 3045 minutes an hour maybe if you're a crazy game run longer than that but the weight is distributed really well here and it's not strenuous on your neck at all and so those are kind of my thoughts on the HTC vive this is my first experience using this high end of a VR headset or the highest end available right now and I think HTC did a great job as well as valve with steamvr it's very well thought-out you can clearly see they put a lot of time and effort into the UI those tutorials are great very fluid experience the only hiccups that we had were really game sort of crashing once or twice but this is to be expected with such a new tech let me know what do you guys think in the comments below are you excited about VR what's your opinion on the VR as a whole as an industry do you think it's gonna stick or is it gonna be something like 3d where we see it go in a year or two this was being pushed by companies give us a thumbs up if you like this video subscribe to our channel because we're gonna be doing a state of VR video pretty soon more comparisons all that good stuff that we cannot wait to show with you guys thank you so much for watching