Gadgetory

so the PlayStation VR you probably saw it in my previous video I unboxed it I tried it out I had my mind blown shortly after got to thinking like what about Xbox people Xbox people feeling left out so I started experiment with the cinema mode on the PS VR headset and even before this headset existed I had experimented with previous non VR cinema headsets within the ps4 there are opportunities to watch video for example on Netflix the menu system and also play games that are not natively VR in a cinema style mode I was like what if I plug an Xbox into the headset and see if it defaults to some sort of cinema mode so I can do this incredibly insane thing which is have PlayStation components interact with Xbox as the worlds collide why would you want to do that it's not really VR in there it's just a cinema mode it's a big screen display well here's why maybe you're in a small space you're in a dorm room you're in a small apartment or something you picked one of these up for your PlayStation but this is also an Xbox sitting over there do you need a separate TV or maybe this can just replace your TV you strap this baby on you got a big screen in front of you and now it can handle all your games all your media the Xbox it's also got another HDMI input so you could have like a cable box that goes into there now all of a sudden this is your output method this is your TV jack see if you can pick up this monstrosity this is the box that comes with the PS VR headset so you're going to send the Xbox's output into the HDMI input of this box and then we have the TV out going into this recorder right now so you guys can see what's being seen inside the headset but then why does the PlayStation need to be on okay so this is where things get a little bit weird in this scenario the USB cable from the box to the PlayStation actually has to be connected and powered on for this to work yes you have to be in an environment where you own both of these there are a lot of environments where these dual console situations exist where somebody owns both so that's the scenario that will allow you to play xbox game on the psvr headset okay I think that was easy enough to fall I'm gonna push this back over the side for now let's find out how it works okay okay oh wow you know what this is not bad you know it's kind of like sitting in front of my projector out there you can go in and dive in I mean you could watch YouTube for example you could do anything you could do on an Xbox this just becomes a gigantic display I'm launching the NFL app now I'm gonna I'm gonna start with like a video clip before I actually go into the gaming this is kind of uh kind of nice I got to be honest it's like sitting in front of a big screen now something interesting to mention it's kind of like a theater so the display stays over here when I turn away it's dark over here I turn back the TV's there I turn over here it's dark it's like sitting in a movie theater essentially okay a little bit of trials fusion now cinema mode if all you have is I don't know a computer monitor or something smaller you're limited for space this it's hard to say that that would be a better experience in this oh wow Oh remember your skills here oh oh oh there we go who knows if trials fusion is the best demonstration but ultimately the way it feels in the headset is that you're sitting in front of a big display playing your your old favorites but in a way this kind of a setup it reminds me of that original Sony headset looking at this monstrosity playing xbox on a Sony headset I gotta admit I'm kind of thankful that they didn't go with some sort of proprietary connector or something theoretically whatever that HDMI source happened to be as long as this thing is connected to the PlayStation via USB that HDMI port it becomes Universal for you you just send a video feed in and you're sitting in front of a big screen version of that video feed so there you have it I don't know if it's a workaround I personally think it was just intended from Sony you're spending whatever six hundred bucks on this thing you might as well have that display available to you regardless of the input source no it's not full-immersion virtual reality but it is a giant screen in front of your face in the absence of a TV I think that's kind of cool