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this is sean hollister with the verge and i'm here with vizio just showing off their new co-star box it's a google TV device you can see it there in the corner and we've got the new controller here as well we saw these previously at CES but for the first time we're going to walk through the user interface here and show off the Google TV take it away right now he's going to press the vizio button here in the center of the remote and that brings up a panel on the side which is using per pixel alpha blending you can see there to blend into the video opening behind it and give you kind of a transparency effect so it's not interfering with your view of content and you can go through some of the apps here and show us what this interface is all about and I love the movies and TV app here which is google's app i'll show you what's currently playing on your attached dish box if you're using dish and you can get information about all of these things and switch to them and generally have a more intelligent television experience sends a command of the dish box here and we'll watch x-men first class but there's a lot more Google TV if we want to we like something we're seeing here we can press the button again and pull up Chrome browser and do a search right from the google TV interface the remote here has a qwerty keyboard on the back so you can flip it over there's a gyroscope inside that'll turn the bottom of it off so you aren't accidentally doing TV commands while you're typing something in and you can type in something you'd like to search for and bring it up on the browser I perhaps looking for something related to x-men first class find out more about me people go to IMDB or Wikipedia or the like and one of the other things that's here in the vizio co-star google TV box is online they've got a partnership with on live here to bring streaming games to the TV set-top box so you can have your your streaming game console basically for a $99 out by the same as the onlive micro console except you don't get the controller here controllers an extra purchase but you get google TV no for that price you can play a few games right on the remote itself which companies Matt McCray told us to spent months working with onlive to get the latency just right but there's also the onlive universal controller here which is a fifty dollar ad on peripheral that comes with a USB dongle for load latency and also does bluetooth if you want to connect it to the television that way and jump right into a game here from the interface and or into the arena here which lets you aspect eight and watch other people playing games on on live in real time we got to try out the onlive patroller for ourself a moment ago and it's really hard to tell with whole hidden see here at the show given the given the Wireless interference but we are told that improvements are being made all the one thank you for watching