Gadgetory

hey it's James from the verge I'm here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and I am looking at LG's 360 VR which is a virtual reality headset that connects to their new flagship smartphone the g5 I'm currently going through a little bit alright I just went through a London bus and now I'm underwater I'm on a rollercoaster ride looking at magical sunken chests full of g5 smartphones unlike the gear VR which is Samsung VR headset LG's doesn't have a slot that you put your phone into instead it has this tether here that connects to the smartphone directly this means that the headset is lighter just 118 grams but it also means that there's not this kind of gasket that fits around your face and blocks out external life it means you kind of have an awareness about what's going on around you all the time which definitely takes away from the immersion so the 360 VR was announced along with the g5 but it'll be coming out sometime later in the summer at the moment the content you can access with a 360 VR it's mainly stuff from Google cardboard as well as VR stuff on YouTube but the whole concept of it isn't going to be as convincing for the HTC vive for example you're connecting to a much more powerful PC this is running from your smartphone that means there's lag when you move your head about compared to other VR headsets it's just a bit underdeveloped for more information about the 360 VR and everything else LTS announced recently you can go to the verge comm or check out youtube.com for slash the verge for more videos