Hi, I'm pretty excited. Check this out! I've got the Tilt Five Augmented Reality glasses. I was a backer of this way back of course this is uh, Jerry Ellsworth's uh baby and uh, this has been a long time coming. In fact, it was more than four years ago that we had Jerry on the Amp Hour podcast and I'll link that in.

it's an excellent episode talking about uh, the demise of her former company which was cast Ir and there's the Valve thing which is what, uh a lot of this tech uh came from. She was working on augmented reality glasses at Valve and then um, they decided to scrap the Augmented reality division and had a co-founder and went out on her own basically and formed Tilt Five and then did a uh kickstarter for this thing. It was an indiegogo and um, yeah, I was one of the early Uh backers and I finally got my kit I've got. I was a tight ass.

I only got the uh, I only got the Le kit um with the single goggles in it, but um, yeah, it's they finally delivered after she got venture capital and everything. So she uh you know was able to really spend the time to actually develop these glasses and she has offered uh to be on uh, the show. So yeah, I will get her on and we'll uh talk about hopefully the um development of this thing And she was kind enough. Jerry Uh personally included some extra stuff as well some old prototypes.

So yes, I will be doing a teardown video. well not really prototype so these aren't the early uh, bodge prototypes. Spoiler alert for what's in the box, but uh, yeah, I. she did throw in some extra ones.

I'm not sure if they work, but yeah, we can do a tear down, but this is just me playing with it. so let's have a squeeze here. I've only got the one, uh, the small game board or the normal game board or something. Um, it does have.

There's the step-by-step instructions. There you go, that's pretty good. Open your game board, step two, plug in your glasses because you want a simple, seamless, um, experience and then step three, Download and launch a game. Jerry has also sent me, uh, some additional developer, um, demos and software as well, which I can play with.

So yeah, here's the game board. Now of course. this is the retro reflective surface. I won't show you the full thing, this is quite large, so this is all retro reflective surface.

So any light regardless of the angle that the light comes in on because these are A this is an augmented reality uses a projection based Um system so it actually projects the light onto here and then it bounces back and you can have as many users as you want and they all get their own individual viewpoint on the board because this is retro reflective material just like Apollo 11 put on the moons. How they can shine the laser back and these are like calibration dots. I think around the outside I can't remember exactly. but anyway, that's really cool.

It's got a felt backing so it doesn't slide around. very nice and in the box up. it's not terribly exciting. There's no instructions, you scanned it all in.

We've got our glasses. There you go. So they've got the uh, they've got two projectors in there and um, tons of sensing stuff and we'll do a teardown video. but isn't that very nice? As the Usbc input there, I don't know if they're battery powered or whether or not.

uh, you have to leave them completely plugged. I think you have to leave them plugged in because otherwise, um, I don't think it's Wi-fi um to like stream the game in data or whatever. I think it does go over the Usbs. but anyway, very nice.

They don't weigh much and I've already had a fiddle with this. Um, so you get like a Usb uh to Usbc um and also a Usb a adapter as well. And then we've got the wand, which is, um, what you play the game with. There it is.

So we've got a joystick there. We've got a button on the back and like Xboxy uh, type controls and stuff. Here there's another button I got no idea. I don't know about details of this thing.

As I said, there's a quick sneaky peek inside here. but yeah, basically. um, this has, um, this is not magic. This actually has infrared.

I think it's infrared leads and that it tracks. Um, it's able to track where you're pointing the wand and stuff. So yeah, it's really cool. So this is really amazing tech, so I'm really interested to actually finally put this on.

I've never used augmented reality. I don't use virtual realities, so technically I think this is going to be very amazing. So yep, I'm going to peel the sticker off you sticker aficionados. There we go.

Only use approved cleaning materials. Keep away from liquids and moisture, keep away from heat sources, Keep around direct sunlight. Avoid scratches. Keep clean with soft lens cloths.

Oh, look at that. Look at that. Ah, like a bought one. Oh there we go.

Fantastic. All right. I'm ready to plug these bad boys in and give it a burl so I'll pop the double Lazy's in there. Seems like an okay design battery apartment.

It's got the rails there. yep so it can't come off like that. So yeah, that should be fairly durable so I'll give it a bill. I have no idea about this.

I got. no, I'm just gonna like, probably scan this thing. um, hook it into the Pc And I installed the uh drivers last night. um for these ones she sent me and I.

They didn't say they detected but they didn't seem to do much. But yeah, I think um, I think some things might be missing from this. These were, um, older prototype-y ones. But well, let's see, this is the real deal right here.

And if memory serves me correctly, Jerry has talked about getting different types of like nose. um, things here. You know, for people like, I've got a fairly big nose. Um, different types of like nose adjustments.

There's nothing in the box, but yes, I don't know what the deal is there. and apparently you can wear them with your glasses as well. Um, so I do wear glasses for, you know, really up close stuff in in low light. Um, so yeah, I'm not sure what sort of lighting conditions we have to, um, use this in.

Like you know, if you got really big because this is this, actually projects out. so the actual brightness as it appears to your eye is actually reflected back from the retro reflective material. I think it's like it's well over 50 percent return light. I think it might be like 70 or 80 return light or something.

Apparently it's very good. So I guess the perceived brightness to your eyes will, uh, have to do with, um, the ambient light as well. But anyway, only one way to find out. Let's plug it in.

Well, I'm very surprised by the size of the game board. Actually, it is quite large. Here's a banana to scale. so there you go.

Yeah, very impressed. So you've got to have like quite a large coffee table or whatever to make this thing. uh, work. But yeah, so there's you know, plenty of like, you know, four people sitter.

I assume it's up to four uh, players depending on the game. and I can. you know, four people sitting around like this and you can poking and I don't know, doing whatever you do with characters. Now to be clear, there may be some bias here because I actually hate with a passion 3d virtual reality stuff.

I hate 3d movies. I hate like I've looked at virtual. I haven't looked recent like in the recent years, but I've hated every Vr experience goggle thing that I've used. I, I just no, no, I don't like it.

but this is augmented reality. This is different. This is actually projected out. This is why I backed this thing and was curious to see technically if I'd enjoy it or not.

So this is so this, uh, first reaction is coming from someone who actually hates virtual reality, right? You won't find me in Mark Zuckerberg's Bloody Wooden Meta thing. Whatever it is. According to the website, it's only for Windows at the moment. There's an Android version coming and a Mac Os version coming as well.

Just on Twitter. Yesterday Jerry actually confirmed that, uh, the Android version will actually come before the Mac Os version. So sorry for the Mac fanboys. All right.

So I'm going to plug in the Usb cable which is, um, custom shaped and it does actually slide in like that. Maybe you know, if you had a small one, you could fit a regular Usb C. It is regular Usbc, but like, physically, Um, there. You sort of have to do this when it's kind of.

You know, a custom thing like this and it's got to come out. You can't just have it flapping around in the breeze, so it's nicely integrated in there the Usb C connector. So that's done. Uh, really well.

I installed the um, the the latest beta version of the game software that Jerry, um, sent me. rather than download it from the web like the driver. Sorry, that Jerry sent me. So um, yeah, I'll plug it in.

I've got my you. I'm using the Usb A adapter. I assume that's okay. Well, there we go.

Glasses ready to boot, load in firmware. validating firmware. There you go. Starting starting the glasses.

The glasses are starting. This doesn't This didn't work with the other pair that I had so other, oh, I can hear something. Is that a fan? That's a fan? I can hear a fan. These things need to be fan called.

They're not passively called. That's a bit of a downside, but I guess if you're all playing and shouting and you know, screaming at your augmented reality game, you're not going to hear it. But I'll use it without my glasses first and let's see what happens. I do have my overhead studio lights on so it is a bit bright in here.

Game board is like it's just it's installed okay. Got the Le settings? Um, all right. I guess I just have to run a game. that's just the driver.

Now, as for these things fitting on your head. Um, last night when I put these on, you can see the photo on Twitter. I did. Actually, I, I think I cracked.

I think I cracked it. but these are the prototype ones. These are not the real ones so these have probably been used and abused. Uh, this is like the old Proto.

One of the old Protos Jerry uh, sent me. Um, non-functional but it detects and stuff. So like I I put it on like this and it really, it really stretches it out. I don't think I have a big head, Well, by definition I'm a youtuber, so I've got a big head, right? But um, yeah, so it's better if you slip them over your head like that then there's less stress on here.

But yeah, I would have liked to see more compliance in uh, the plastic actual design like that. because yeah, if you, yeah, if you put a light like that, you really have to. you have to. Well, maybe maybe I was doing it wrong.

I was like sort of like, ah, maybe you've got to grab it like that and put it over. I don't know what the best way is. Anyway, I do have a tiny little micro crack in there. I think so they're the Proto glasses, so let's let's do the real deal.

Okay, I'm going to run a demo called Marbles Configuration Here we go: Screen Resolution: 1280 by 720. Graphics quality Good. Yeah, well. that's the only option I have.

And display one right, Display two right? Okay, Okay, so this is what we. This is what should be running okay and this will be me. So let's have a go. It's augmented reality.

Is it going to be any good? Don't know. I I think I'll be technically impressed. But yeah, please forgive me if I'm not like wowed away as a gamer because I'm not. You know, I like.

I'd rather play like a real board game than in any way. technically. I want to check these out. There's no instructions.

how do I turn it on? Center button. There we go. Something blues flashing. Do I have to? How do I connect? I assume this wirelessly connects well.

Hang on. I don't have enough lead length here. Got to be careful. Uh, no.

I'm not seeing anything. I'm doing something wrong. Hang on. No, I think I need to read the instructions.

I'm not sure if this is like paired or whatever. I'm not sure what the deal is. Oh yeah. Really need a longer lead length? Geez.

stupid me. I actually forgot to choose. Next step here and follow the instructions. So yeah, I just thought because the software was running, it would instantly work.

But no. obviously you've probably got to like pair stuff and do other setups. So yeah, idiot users like me. This is when you're developing products like this and you know the user experience.

you have to deal with idiots like me. Press the system button center button immediately below. Yeah, that's what I did. You'll see up linking blue Led indicating that one is successfully paired.

Yep, Yep. so I've paired it. Open the marbles demo which is the one I've got. No, that's it.

Um, no. I. I did the right thing. Yeah, there's there's nothing projecting out of this.

um at all. Something's not happening. I don't know. Do I have to replug it? I'll just restart everything.

I don't know. Got zippity-doo-dah I've got nothing so I don't know. I'm doing something dumb obviously. Woo-hoo I finally got it.

I wasn't doing anything dumb. I was plugging it into the front Usb port using the supplied Usb a adapter into my uh, desktop main desktop Pc here and I was just talking with uh jerry uh via direct message and she helped me out and um she said yeah, they're really pushing the limits of data rate on Usb um C. So yeah, if you plug it into like over like a ribbon cable She said like on the front panel of a desktop pc it may not work and that's why it was dropping out from the driver so it has to be in there. You can see now that it's in there and it's actually detected and it's running and I can see little projectory things happening here so it's all working.

It did default to a lower uh, I think 720 by 480 res or something, so I'll just run with that for now and then. I'll try and increase the Uh resolution later because of course larger the resolution, the greater the data bandwidth, so I'm not sure if it automatically like detected that based on what it can do, I'm not sure. but anyway, it's projecting. So here we go.

I'm going to put it on, my wand is linked up. Okay, here we go. Will it? Wow me? Here we go. I haven't got my glasses on so it might be a little bit fuzzy right up close here, but in the middle there should be fine and I haven't got much lead length so let's put on Way there we go.

Hello! Three dimensions. Wow. Okay, I have no idea how to use a controller but I'm just looking at that. That is really cool.

Wow. like I'm sitting pretty close to it and I get the entire field of view. That's really cool and like yeah, you can almost reach out and touch that ball. That's well done.

That is very good. Oh yeah, if I if I look to the camera it's turned off and it's only it's It's off. Now it's off. Now it's off.

It's off. And as soon as it detects I guess enough uh dots on the outside, it starts projecting. And yeah, like if I tilt my head like that, I can see the edge. I can see the edge of the actual projection.

even though this is low res. This is amazing. Um yeah yeah, it's pretty good. So start.

I guess player one, but it ain't starting so I got no idea how to start this thing. I wish I could see the balloons and stuff. That's pretty cool. Um, I can't see it on the thing here.

but yeah, yeah, this is. This is pretty good, right? This is. this is what I expected. It's well.

yeah, yeah. it takes a second. When you move your head back, it takes like maybe a second second and a half for it to show back up. But that's totally understandable.

That is very cool. Well done Jerry and team. This is very impressive. Um, if I could only play it, I don't know how to start the damn thing.

Anyway, yeah, the thing is this. Well, I believe this, uh, transmits infrared and it's going to come back. And the interesting thing, if you wave your hand over it, you can see the red green blue. Your fingers turn into red green blue.

So that's that's kind of cool. But yeah, augmented reality to me is better than virtual reality. Um because you can like. you can like Just you know.

you can put your hands in here and you can still see them. You can still see the real world. You can still see your friends right? Um, yeah. we just you know it's great.

But oh no. Here we go. Oh it's rolling here. We go.

somehow. I got it. It's it's started. somehow.

Okay, way way. Okay. Yeah, this is good. I'm gonna have to get the uh yeah.

the kids will be the ultimate, um test of this thing. So it's a marble run. Oh it can go back up hill. How does it do that with gravity? It's defying gravity.

There's a i can see one of the ah yeah, that's oh. that's that's pretty cool. And yeah, I move my head around. Yeah I can see like a there's the windmilly thing.

Um I. you can still. You do notice the splits in the board though. Maybe because it's not.

Uh, if I put it on a flat. Yeah, I can still notice the splits on the board. but this is. this is really cool.

Yeah yeah, this is good. I can see how the kids are going to like this. I've only got one controller unfortunately, so hey, ride the bumps. Oh oh no.

I lost my ball. Whoa. Am I seeing it flicker? Or is that I don't know if that's my imagination or not. Okay, yeah.

the field of view. Like I'm really close to this and the field of view is almost complete. But as I said, if I tilt my head like that, I do lose a bit of the frame in there. Oh my ball's gone.

Ah roll this way. Yes, Oh no no I'm stuck. Ah oh no no. There we go.

You have to get momentum. Oh pistons Pistons way. This is pretty fun. All right.

This is the only demo I have installed but this is good enough to let me. Yeah, this is a pretty good demo. It gives you an idea what? No oh no. hey now I can see the balloon.

See this. I don't actually need the wand, I don't actually I can just th this one doesn't need the wand at all. I'm not doing anything with the wand so like but the wand is to like select like pieces and stuff like you can see. You know if you're playing like a board game you can select pieces I believe and you can like pick them up and stuff.

This is as good or better than what I expected. Yeah, Whether or not I don't know, I'd have to play many hours on it. Whether or not it's going to hold my in like augmented reality is going to hold my interest, I just don't know. Like I said, like virtual reality, I don't know.

I haven't tried the mod. Ah, haven't tried the modern ones, but they're all the ones I've tried. I hate them. I hate 3d movies.

I hate. You know? no, no. Give me the real world. But this is.

this is fun. I like the fact that you can. Um, why? I'm like pointing the wand? I don't. I don't know.

I I don't need to. I can just sit here so you can just use it as a normal controller. This is really. this is really cool.

well done, well done, and and this and this is only low res. This is only low res. I'm going to try it again in high res. So as you can see, I can select the resolution here.

Uh, 720 by 480 is what I was playing it at. Let's see if we can bump that up. Let's see if we can get full. Uh, 1920 by 1080.

See if we can get full full Hd. I'm really going to push it. I'm not seeing a huge amount of difference actually. maybe it is there.

Maybe I have to pay attention more. but the other one was. the lower res was perfectly fine. I didn't I, you know my mind wasn't going.

oh this is blocky and low res. It seemed pretty good. So yeah well. I like got a habit of using the wand and I just don't need to.

Just don't need to. This is just a normal thumbstick controller now. And yeah it it. It does look real like I can.

I can put my like. I can't put my hand like it feels like you can put your hand under it, like it feels like I can scoop that ball up. It It really does like you're you're not seeing my hands obviously. but it feels like I can scoop that ball up and it feels like my hands going under it under it.

But it's not. Of course because it projects back so that that's really that's really very cool. I I want to get hit by the hammer. Boom There we go.

Hang on. Oh I'm just checking. just checking the whoop. Oh no yeah yeah, it died if I go too close.

But everything's in focus. You don't have to be a set right. When I go further back I can see the resolution. Now I can see the resolution like I can like.

It gets fuzzier because of the resolution. like it's It's a smaller part of the wider field. I I guess is the best way to explain that. but as I go in but it doesn't lose focus at all and I can look around that to see the balloon.

So yeah yeah it's it's it's fun. I do the the ultimate test will be the kids to see if they like it. So I'll take it home tonight and I'll give the I'll give the kids a demo. they'll be fighting over it so jerry I'll have to order another.

I'm pretty sure they'll like it. I think I'm going to have to order another headset Um, so another wand and glasses. But but the problem is, we don't. I'll have to run it from my laptop.

So yeah, well, like that's the thing. Like you've got a lead length, you are quite limited, and you've got to have a Pc. So, but of course, to have um, like wireless in this, you probably wouldn't get the bandwidth required. And also, it adds huge power consumption.

Um, things and stuff. So I'm not sure how much power the uh, projectors and stuff take. I can plug a Usb monitor power monitor into it and find out how much power it's taken. But Jerry said, yeah, they're They're on the limits of the data rate.

The Usbc data rate that they can push. But I'm playing this in full Hd and yep, that's pretty cool. Okay, I'm going to try that one more time. I'm going to try that at the lowest res like 640 by 480, right? Seriously, there's not a huge amount of difference.

Like, if I go back, it's still. it's still fun. Like, yeah, it's still fine. Like in 640 by 480.

No waka's at all. I assume if you've got two player, you've got two balls, you know, and you race each other and then you could. That'd be really cool. It's probably not a single player game, I think.

Just like the Oasis, you know It's never meant to be a single player game. I think you know this is designed to play with your friends around the coffee table and I can see how this this is going to be a winner. Really? I I can see that. Yeah, I think I think Jerry's under something here.

Yeah, isn't better than Vr. Like because this you can have fun with your friends. You can still see your friends like this and it kicks in. It'd be nice if it kicked in a bit quicker.

Oh, actually there we go. Like it takes one, two, like maybe a second, second and a half to kick in. That's a little bit annoying. Um, being able to see the lines.

I g they kind of like vanish when you're actually. you know if you sit, if something's still you, you notice them. Otherwise, it just you know when you've got motion blur and you're playing and stuff. But yeah, it's really sharp, it's in focus, it's got a wide field of view and and it does feel very immersive.

It's very impressive. Yeah, it's It's exactly what I expected. Like, you know, yeah, it's I don't know. maybe I've got a good enough imagination to realize what this would have been like technically.

But yeah, yeah, it's And as I said, it's probably a yeah. It's definitely on par with my expectations that is for sure. maybe even a bit better. But yeah, you can play this at low res and I believe.

Um, yeah, you might even be able to play it from the Usb on your phone, Usb C port on your phone. Uh, once once the Android version comes out. two thumbs up. That is really good.

Well done, Jerry. Um, the noise from these things. It's not as loud when you put on your head. it's louder here because it's like it's like coming out the top and so when when you've got it on it, it's not actually not as loud.

It's louder when you have it here, so it's not distracting at all. And the weights? pretty good. They feel reasonably comfortable. I kind of maybe like the robustness of the they.

They feel, um, fragile. Like, not not hugely fragile. But they do feel a little bit fragile like, you know you've got to be careful with them. Um, but these are basically a first-gen product, so I'm you know, I'm sure they will, um, improve.

but no, they're more than good enough. This is this is going to be really good. This is going to be successful. All right.

I'm just going to try uh, some other demos. Now I've got what's called Physics Gun and sorry you can't really see this. It's tiny up here, but on the on the game board it actually looks fantastic. And by the way, I'm shooting this with my studio, uh, lights off so I have it fairly dim in here.

It's just over 220 lux at the moment. for those you know reference for those playing along at home. So 220 lux. So it is quite low light and um, there's plenty of uh, light coming back.

It doesn't seem dim or anything. So so this one is. I'm not sure like it's got like a moat with something like liquid falling into it. and then I can actually point at objects and I can pick them up with the button and I can move them around.

And the physics like it actually moves other objects. I can push one object with the other so I can pick this up and then I push this and this is this is really cool and this is one of the augmented reality things. Um, you know one of the Um scientific medical applications and stuff like that that you can get with these. You know you're doing certain.

I don't know. You can maybe use this for surgery, can you or whatever and you know you can actually manipulate things in the space and this is this is actually really impressive. It's really good. It feels really natural and it feels like I'm like yeah, I like it, feels like I can grab it, but then unfortunately you're very disappointed When your hand like my hand tries to come up.

my hand looks like it is below this object. but then I bring it up and it just vanishes and it's so disappointing. so disappointing. Um but yeah this is a really cool demo and that's coming.

Really? I can get that right in front of me. Wow wow and that and that really? um yeah I could. but once again I can't put my hand behind it but that that that focus is incredible that like it stays it really well. It's It's higher detail now because it's right.

it fills up my field of view more. This is a really low res demo. That's why it's so small on the screen. Capture here.

but wow yeah this is. this is really amazing. I can bring that object right up and then I can leave it there and I can look around the object like that. Oh whoa.

My table just wobbled. as in the virtual table just wobbled. Really? I can grab and manipulate objects. And can I wrote I don't know if I can rotate them.

no I can't seem to can't seem to rotate them. but I can manipulate them and move them around. Very cool. Wow.

And Jerry said that they're working on the sound. I can't actually hear the sound. I've got my speakers turned off. um now.

So like before I was having the audio comes through the speakers but I can hear like I can hear the water dripping now. Unfortunately when there's no major sound like you know, there's no music playing in the background. It's really quite quiet in this room. at the moment.

I can hear the fans whirring and that that's a little bit annoying. It's a little bit annoying. but of course, to get rid of the fan and have passive cooling on this thing, um, it would have to be much heavier. You know you've got to have aluminium in there for the heatsink.

For the passive heatsink And stuff like that, be interesting to get the thermal. uh, camera on. I won't do that in this video anyway. Yeah, I can hear it, but I can hear the dripping of the water in here.

The ooze, the green ooze. It's a river of slime. All right. I've got a Lego example now and I can use the wand to point at stuff and I can make my little Lego character jump.

I wonder if she's got the rights to use the Lego? I don't know, But oh oh, can I almost made it through? So I've turned my studio lights on now? You can't see them, but I'm getting 1400 lux and that's quite a lot. Uh, whereas we're only getting 200 lux before, So now I'm going to give it. see how less bright is it? No, it's It's still fantastic. There's still no problems whatsoever.

Obviously, you can't see what I'm seeing, but really, there's not a huge amount of difference there. Okay, I'm going to switch my studio lights off now. Yeah, it's better. Um, yeah, you definitely don't don't want to play it with.

you know, like a thousand Lux. Um, you want to play it with like a couple of hundred lux or something like that? It is definitely like the colors are richer, they aren't as washed out, But no, it was still very playable with well over a thousand lux. No worries. All right, let's see if we can see through this lens.

Um, it's going to be difficult, but that's that's what you're seeing there. You can you can see through, But yeah, you won't get the experience there. There's the wand I was telling you about, but you, I'm sure you're not going to get the same experience as looking through, and you certainly won't get the stereoscopicy effect through both. But yeah, it's really difficult to shoot footage through this.

Oh no. all right now we're talking. We've got like this is called Forest Campaign and I've already battled one dude. Here we go.

So I'm going to battle a dude. All right. No, come on, and demon, come on. And then I can smash the buttons.

Boom Boom. Come on. Yeah, you're right. So this is just a joystick control thing.

Shack slash backslash. Can I beat the demon? This is pretty cool because you can like, like you know that that tree's in the way at the moment, right? Trees in the way and I can look around the tree right? It's it's very good. It's very cool. Come on.

One more strike. Can I kill the demon? Come on, I got him. Yeah, it's cool, right? So you can actually look around stuff. Yeah, you really need a longer cord length, but this is pretty impressive, right? The graphics on this are great.

See, I don't know what the kids are going to think about this. It's going to be interesting to see. See the thing is like I can get closer up to that and like I can look around the tree and inspect. You know and see things and you know and my character disappears behind the tree and stuff.

Yeah, you know it's it's really very cool. So yeah, it feels like there's like a like a diorama thing in front of you. You know, even though my mind knows it's not real. But you know it's pretty good though.

That's impressive. Night match, Get in. Okay, so I've got this, uh, demo pack configuration it's got now. Fantastic graphics quality.

So I'm going to go for broke. I'm going to go full Hd. Yeah, no, I'm not seeing the value in the full Hd here at all. This seems to be no more impressive than what I had before.

Anyway, I don't see any difference between fantastic quality and the you know, just the lower res. Uh, just the good quality that I was getting That that's what it says. the fantastic or good. I don't see fantastic here.

It's just the same as the other one, so I don't know There we go. I did actually rotate the board around and I am actually facing the other direction now. So if I go like that, yeah, I you rotate the board and it's again because the dots are in different orientations now. so it knows which orientation is your board.

So I've got to play it in this orientation. And now my joystick should be correct. Yes, it is okay. Got it all right? Cool.

Oh, there we go. Yeah, so why do I have to pick up the aliens or something? Yeah, yeah. okay. This menu is in front of this.

this one and and stuff like that, It's really. yeah. it's really cool. It's novel.

Um, whether or not the appeal like lasts over the long term. I I just don't know. But it's very cool. Like, technically, it's brilliant.

It's absolutely brilliant. And it's fun. It's fun to play. Yes, I want to go again.

Yeah, the audio is really low. You can drop them to clear them. I can barely hear that. Use the targets to shoot.

You barely hear the voices. So yeah, whereas you can have it come through your system audio like I can turn on my speakers and it's going to come through now. but you don't want to have to rely on your system audio. I guess that's the whole idea.

And then everyone can get their own audio I don't get. So yeah, I can't wait to. Yeah, I'm gonna have to get another pair and and really like it's not designed to play on your own, you know you really. I should have ordered the two two controller pack but I just wanted to try it out and see the just technically and I'll do a teardown video inside this thing and um give it a big thumbs up.

If you want me to get Jerry on, um you know, interview with Jerry and talking about the development of this thing and all the tech and stuff like that. um yeah, leave your questions in the comments for Jerry because um she has offered to come on so that's really cool. So thank you very much Jerry for helping out. Um yeah, I would not have guessed like a data rate port um issue there but that that is that is really fun.

I don't feel tired, my eyes don't feel stressed. um like like in Virtu in uh Vr. My eyes always feel stressed. I don't like it at all.

Um and yeah no this this feels good because I like you still see the real world so it's it's a winner. Well done Jerry and team. Fantastic! I think it's taken like a good couple of years. Three four Well, we had Jerry on the amp hour four years ago.

Um, and she was working on it. Then I'm not sure when I backed it, but it was a long time ago and I finally got it that she has delivered. Fantastic and I think it's going to be a winner. So yeah, I guess the only thing I can say is that I'd like to see like a next-gen version of the glasses that just a bit more physically.

You know, the vibe of these feels like you know if I go like this I'm going to snap and apparently um, these have like um, you can do like you can talk with friends so you can like do it across, you know, on the other side of the world or something. they've got like sp I think believe they have like speakers in them or something and a microphone. You can actually talk to other players and things like that. something like that.

I don't know, um but I think that's that's the case. But this is this is really cool. So they've got the two micro projectors in there, bounces back off the retro reflector, and um, and the you need the alignment dots in here to keep it all aligned. I think she might have mentioned that on the amp hour um thing years ago, but yeah, technically technically it's It's brilliant and it's a real good idea.

And I'm glad somebody has done the augmented reality thing because everyone focused on the virtual reality side. You put your goggles on and your bloody go into Zucker's metaverse wankery thing and no, no thank you. Um, if I'm going to do anything like this, I want augmented, not stupid virtual reality, so that is really cool. Anyway, thoughts and comments down below: catch you next time.