**Star Wars Jedi Challenges: A New VR Experience**

The latest innovation from Lenovo and Disney is Star Wars Jedi Challenges, a new virtual reality (VR) experience that puts fans directly into the action-packed world of Star Wars. This unique device allows users to wield a lightsaber, engage in lightsaber duels with friends, and interact with various characters from the Star Wars universe.

The quality of the lightsabers is impressive, with decent animation and movement capabilities. The device also features a range of other mini-games and experiences that cater to fans of all ages. With its innovative use of VR technology, this device is poised to become a must-have for any Star Wars enthusiast.

**A $200 Kit to Play the Three Mini Games**

The Lenovo Star Wars Jedi Challenges kit is priced at $199.99, making it an affordable entry point into the world of VR gaming and entertainment. The device includes a range of mini-games, including lightsaber duels, blaster battles, and puzzle-solving adventures.

The kit also features a range of other accessories, including a VR headset, controllers, and a charging base. With its compact design and user-friendly interface, this device is perfect for both casual gamers and hardcore Star Wars fans.

**Spiro: The Robotics Company Behind the Toy**

Behind the Lenovo Star Wars Jedi Challenges kit lies a company that has been pushing the boundaries of robotics and innovation. Spiro is a company that specializes in creating robots and animatronics, with a focus on film and television production.

Their latest creation is the BB-8 toy, which was inspired by the beloved character from the Star Wars franchise. The toy features advanced robotics and animation capabilities, including LED lights, spinning wheels, and motion control. Spiro's commitment to innovation and quality is evident in every aspect of their work, from the design of the BB-8 toy to the development of a robotic tool for animators.

**BB-9 II: A New Droid from the Star Wars Universe**

During the event, a new droid was revealed - the BB-9 II. This Imperial droid is similar in appearance to BB-8, but with some key differences. The BB-9 II features advanced robotics and animation capabilities, including LED lights and motion control.

The device also includes a range of other features, such as wireless charging and a rechargeable battery. The BB-9 II is the perfect companion for any Star Wars fan who wants to experience the world of BB-8 in a new way. With its sleek design and advanced technology, this droid is sure to be a hit with fans of all ages.

**The Future of VR Gaming and Entertainment**

As VR technology continues to evolve and improve, companies like Lenovo and Spiro are pushing the boundaries of what is possible. The Star Wars Jedi Challenges kit and BB-9 II toy represent just one example of this innovation, showcasing the potential for VR gaming and entertainment to become a mainstream phenomenon.

With its innovative use of VR technology and commitment to quality and design, the Lenovo Star Wars Jedi Challenges kit is poised to revolutionize the world of VR gaming and entertainment. Whether you're a hardcore gamer or just looking for a fun and immersive experience, this device has something to offer everyone.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody's norm from testa and it's Jeremy from Testim welcome to projections our show about virtual reality and augmented reality now the type of AR and VR that we typically cover and that we enjoy is it's in the high end right now it's not exactly mainstream that's right we have VR headsets they go for about six hundred dollars now yep more than four hundred right with a special price point but we want to see these devices what happens when if oh yeah hardware manufacturers can make a version of them that can reach more mainstream what does that look like is experience can be good enough and what does that cost and what does it cost and we may be seeing the first example of that with a new product that was announced this week from Lenovo in partnership with Disney now back in d23 the Disney expand Expo back in July they critically revealed a photo and a YouTube video showing some type of partnership they called it an AR AR classes mmm is very sexy it somebody just holding a what looked like a lightsaber wearing a our headset right and so a lot of speculation as to whether this is gonna be some a new piece of hardware that would just run some Star Wars software what that lightsaber men and now we have most of the details well we've used it we've used it yes so this is called the Star Wars Jedi Challenge and Lenovo is the hardware maker here they make this headset they call it the Lenovo a mirage a our heads right no so slow down if you call it a headset I think it has a display in it that's right you think I mean headset could mean all sorts of things right it is actually more akin to your mobile VR device right let your phone daydream or a gear VR exact but it's more than that and we should say right up front it cost $200 yes right so you take your phone and you put it into the this headset and by the way it can use either iPhone or Android phones hello because I phone and Android different sizes that's a technical challenge iPhones are differ right that's right so you open it up and they have this bracketing system and an adapter system right but like like the actual the the high end AR headsets that we've used before for example like the meta it is a screen that's you place the phone above your eye almost like in the visor position and then using mirrors it projects it or reflects it onto a translucent display in front of you right so you can see through it's a you know into the real world and what they're doing is taking the resolution of your screen so whether that's a 1080p iPhone or high resolution a 2.5 k Android phone and splitting that in half and then so you do see like some type of sterile image in your field of view right and no matter what phone you have that they're trying to give you the same experience yeah so what that means is if you have a bigger screen they actually crop it right so the the bracket that it goes into only uses a subset of the pixels on say a plus iPhone and that like the full screen on a lower size 5 iPhone right so the headset itself it's translucent display that goes all around but the image is only gonna be right in front of you right I was actually pretty impressed by the width of the image I mean compared we've a are is still as we've said before very early days so a lot of the AR that we've seen have been pretty small I mean nothing compared to the field of view of VR so this compared to what we've seen so far I was actually fairly impressed like that it actually goes out fairly far I was a little more concerned about the vertical restriction right because the vertical is like the width of the phone and these phones are all now sixteen by nine right you get more horizontal it's bigger than that of the postage stamp-sized that you typically describe exactly for the hololens but it's a different type of display system yes not using something that's pumping light directly in your retina it's not a projection based system so the image quality because it's reflecting off of your screen it's gonna be dependent on how bright your screen is yeah and I did ask about that I think that the OLED panels are going to give you a slightly better contrast for obvious reasons because the blacks are just off right so it's pure pass-through and that whatever pixels are lit are light sources so that's that's kind of the ideal scenario of course they were very cautious to say every every phone we'll have you know a similar experience and they're happy with where they've landed I think we're getting a little ahead of ourselves though we should explain what the experience is that you get from the actual device yes so it's called Jedi challenges and that's because it is a Star Wars themed game in addition to the headset in the display you have peripherals two of them actually there is this lightsaber this modeled lightsaber with a it looks like a chopped off blue tip right and then also this puck this uh this this beacon that you play somewhere in the room on the floor on the floor and that's because there is positional tracking there are two cameras that are part of this headset that then detect the IR light coming from that puck and also from lightsaber now with those that triangulation your position the lightsabers position and that puck they can put objects in your field of view in the real world so the game that we got to try was a Star Wars style lightsaber duel you put the puck on the ground and that provides a sense of where that plane is so they can put your opponent your VR virtual augmented opponent into the space with you standing on the same plane as you are so then you see them across the room and they advance towards you in this case it was kylo Ren your lightsaber that you're holding looks like you know basically Luke Skylar Skywalker's lightsaber but in a are the the lightsaber extends out of the tip of it so alignment exactly if you have a real world object this is what AR is all about you're holding a real world object yes the blue light comes out from lightsaber but they don't render the hill they only render the blade exactly so the refresh rate of your phone it's you're gonna bit sixty Hertz right most if you're moving your hilt really really fast it's not gonna catch up as much but even if you're holding it still I'm doing you're moving your slow movement how did you feel that alignment work for you it was pretty it's pretty good like I was impressed so the actual lightsaber has that IR tip on the end of it it also has its own built-in accelerometer so that's communicating with the headset or the phone in order to communicate you know angle and it gets positioned based on that IR tipping at the end so they have enough information to do it right it's just a matter of the processing power this is a question like will different phone provide the same experience or not because there are so many variables right right and then even in that gameplay you know when you're they're telling us about this before we tried it on but imagine okay if on linemen it's perfect if the refresh rate is good enough you know I want to have a full-on lightsaber battle with a virtual kylo Ren you're not having a real battle it's a it's a very simplistic game it's a game it's absolutely a video game and they give you what they call like force premonitions where they will show you a ghost of where you should put your lightsaber in order to defend yourself and it's kind of interesting because it's not a 2d game right it's the arse over AR it's in 3d so you have to position not just this way not just this way but this sort of six degrees and you have to place it in the right angle just in time for kylo to come in for his attack you block him and then you can get him back be Kors stun him and essentially it's a game of defend and attack it's the AR equivalent of a QuickTime event that's mush of mashing crime event on your traditional you know flat screen shooter except now you're actually moving your hand it's a little bit more than it QuickTime because that's sort of like press X it's positioning I think again is like Prince of Persia remember like the the sword dueling in that game it was like as very refined there's definitely like a fun mechanic there and if they amp up the the skill it seems like it could actually be a pretty decent challenge they said that Darth Vader would be too much for me to handle know at this point but I think really do have him later than Ryan Ryan played when I tried it the thing I was looking for in terms of the alignment with the world now you're not gonna get it's not light-filled you know you're not refocusing your eyes the foreground the background all focus to infinity like alignment lightsaber is one thing but how well does that floating kylo Ren fit into the world you're the room that you're in well it's not aware of anything and it's not all it knows is where that ground puck is and so it knows where the ground is so he's if you don't have an open space kylo is gonna walk through your couch and you know he looks like a ghost in they are he might as well walk through your couch and it's gonna be oriented always in front of you it's not like if he's standing there the virtual version you look this way and then you hear the sound he turned back to him uh-huh it's always gonna be kind of in your field of view right yeah and then kind of floating toward you I was impressed though given that really that puck is really it's best you know indication of where the ground is I was impressed by how much I could turn around and he would they would maintain position so like it seems to do a good job of not breaking that illusion you don't have to constantly face the same direction right please they have that three degrees I am um of detection so even if you turn around it knows you've rotated in place and then there are other games that compress so we didn't get a chance to play anything but the lightsaber duel but the two other game modes that they promised we're coming at launch are an RTS game that you play on the ground with little vehicles from you know obviously add ads and various Star Wars vehicles you play against the AI opponent I'm not sure how the controls would that work I mean and how do you select your your units and how do you do everything I imagine with the lightsaber it's an interesting question so it'd be curious to see with that as they seem to really like that game they're very proud of it the other game is hollow chess and they are calling it Hollow chest by the way it's not jarek know and they made a point of that because that's that rule set does exist ha and this isn't that this is not that they said the official rule set is a bit too complicated okay and so they wanted to make it a little more accessible and so they have created their own rules and this will be their version apologize and now both that kind of wave based RTS or strategy game and the whole chess game are gonna require good alignment to the ground to have characters and virtual objects come in the ground and the best sense that we out of that was the menu system I think in the the Jedi challenges they might say for a combat game because even before you get into fighting kylo Ren or Darth Vader they do have like a tier like a virtual menu system that floats around that beacon and you look at the planet you want a teleport to and I was pretty good yeah so I was pretty impressed I think Lenovo obviously had having developed a google tango based phone they they had the software engineers to work on AR and to make AR work with that type of depth setting data and we know that IR base beacons whether it's a movable beacon in your lightsaber or the beacon in the floor are good enough to give you position information yeah I'm excited about what they hinted was becoming and they strongly suggested that multiplayer is something that won't be available at launch but that multiplayer duel was something they really strongly intend to bring to the platform so you and me both potentially wearing these headset exactly holding our lightsabers and seeing the virtual blaze right how would that even work combat wise like we're not gonna actually I don't know like it doesn't know necessarily where I am or where you are yeah it's it I don't know they also in wanted to bring the Luke Skywalker training droid that makes the most sense I thought well that's how you train fit in the game I mean there's gotta be there at launch but they said no no but we can't talk about that yet but that's something that you know we very much so working on the headset itself kind of looks like the training headset with the blast shield down I can't even see that's the game that alone will be worth yeah the price of admission so it is interesting it is a mainstream for if this will be in stores and on their website so this is a mainstream attempt at getting AR into the mass Mart thats interesting like we really haven't seen any AR devices at all so I mean this is gonna be like the first like big leap into that they are meaning interaction with the real world not just holding a phone in front of you exactly exactly it by the way the lightsaber has a button on it I didn't get to use but there's a power button as well as a force power button yeah so when your lightsaber dueling you'll be able to push your enemies back and things like that it's interesting they also can change the color of the lightsaber that's not something available at lunch but maybe with that multiplayer thing you can have a red lightsaber and what I would hope is that Lenovo and potentially Disney and Star Wars uses this and thinks of as a platform and not just sell you this $200 kit to play the three mini games you know DLC in the future but think of other interesting ways as you have more people using this you know to do something a year later two years later maybe I even as phones get better you have to take advantage of those sensors as well yeah I mean - I mean I it'll be interesting to see you know what the market for this is I mean $200 it's kind of a good deal in the VR space we don't have much to compare it to in AR and it is such a unique experience it'll be interesting to me to see you know whether or not this finds a place in the in the market or not I do think the lightsaber is pretty cool I think Star Wars fans will probably dig this just because the quality of the lightsabers is pretty decent all right so that's Star Wars Jedi challenges it's gonna be out for this holiday season I think in November and we'll definitely trying it out in the office when we get to bed so Jeremy before we go I do want to ask you something you're not a r or V are related oh yes hijacked conversation a little bit because you saw some other Star Wars related toys robots at this event there were a few other toys there but the one that really caught my attention was the new stuff from Spiro okay we know them have made the bb-8 toy yeah that you guys disassembled yes yeah yeah which is no small mazing amazing toy I think they've they've done other robotics they did a Cars toy or Lightning McQueen $300 and I was interesting he actually told me some impact story on that they actually developed a Maya - robotic tool so that they have actual animators able to make whatever Maya animations they want if they would for a movie convert that into servos and everything that works in their own toy so it is pretty cool sexy like they said they had John Lasseter like consulting on the animation huh it's pretty cool anyway so this is a this is a company of geeks that love robotics and their new stuff coming out is certainly in the same vein so I was excited by these things one is an r2 unit okay which is about that tall like six seven inches tall I think he's gonna sell for I think they said about 170 okay and it's r2d2 I mean he stands up on his own he can he can spin around but then when you want to go forward he has a third wheel that kicks out of the bottom you can't even see it drops out it's totally enclosed it drops out and then he leans back as he does in the movie and he scoots around his head spins there's multicolored LEDs in his head and he makes all the sounds and and he'd again like they really nailed the animations even with r2 it has a mode where he gets hit by the Jawa gun and he spins around it makes all the sounds and then he flops over backwards Wow and it's all fun controlled it's all film controlled so yeah and it's very very cool the other robot that I saw there was the reveal oh wait hold on so if you're watching this video and you don't want any last Jedi spoilers you might want to see you next but I do want to hear some last Jedi spoilers lay it on me I was gonna surprise like there was a droid from the last gen I called bb9 II why yes so like maybe new model for whatever reason there's a new model called BB 90 and he is definitely an imperial at least that's what it looks like to me he is black with black with white stripes looks evil as can be but a ball but a ball he performs just like bb-8 except from the robotics geeky side they managed to put LEDs in the head now okay and the power for that is transferred totally inductive Oh from folks there's still two separate units yeah magnetic connection and then the head can move around and that has a part like I can understand inductive charging and power transfer from a static being a stationary device from one thing to another but this head it moves all over this ball oh my god that's pretty cool engineering on their part I mean I was impressed that may require another disassembly to see how that works I'd love to do that that's pretty and they are too unit man it's gonna speak to you it's very cool wait all right that does it for this week on projections we'll be back next week with more VR and AR talk until then Jeremy and I will see you next timehey everybody's norm from testa and it's Jeremy from Testim welcome to projections our show about virtual reality and augmented reality now the type of AR and VR that we typically cover and that we enjoy is it's in the high end right now it's not exactly mainstream that's right we have VR headsets they go for about six hundred dollars now yep more than four hundred right with a special price point but we want to see these devices what happens when if oh yeah hardware manufacturers can make a version of them that can reach more mainstream what does that look like is experience can be good enough and what does that cost and what does it cost and we may be seeing the first example of that with a new product that was announced this week from Lenovo in partnership with Disney now back in d23 the Disney expand Expo back in July they critically revealed a photo and a YouTube video showing some type of partnership they called it an AR AR classes mmm is very sexy it somebody just holding a what looked like a lightsaber wearing a our headset right and so a lot of speculation as to whether this is gonna be some a new piece of hardware that would just run some Star Wars software what that lightsaber men and now we have most of the details well we've used it we've used it yes so this is called the Star Wars Jedi Challenge and Lenovo is the hardware maker here they make this headset they call it the Lenovo a mirage a our heads right no so slow down if you call it a headset I think it has a display in it that's right you think I mean headset could mean all sorts of things right it is actually more akin to your mobile VR device right let your phone daydream or a gear VR exact but it's more than that and we should say right up front it cost $200 yes right so you take your phone and you put it into the this headset and by the way it can use either iPhone or Android phones hello because I phone and Android different sizes that's a technical challenge iPhones are differ right that's right so you open it up and they have this bracketing system and an adapter system right but like like the actual the the high end AR headsets that we've used before for example like the meta it is a screen that's you place the phone above your eye almost like in the visor position and then using mirrors it projects it or reflects it onto a translucent display in front of you right so you can see through it's a you know into the real world and what they're doing is taking the resolution of your screen so whether that's a 1080p iPhone or high resolution a 2.5 k Android phone and splitting that in half and then so you do see like some type of sterile image in your field of view right and no matter what phone you have that they're trying to give you the same experience yeah so what that means is if you have a bigger screen they actually crop it right so the the bracket that it goes into only uses a subset of the pixels on say a plus iPhone and that like the full screen on a lower size 5 iPhone right so the headset itself it's translucent display that goes all around but the image is only gonna be right in front of you right I was actually pretty impressed by the width of the image I mean compared we've a are is still as we've said before very early days so a lot of the AR that we've seen have been pretty small I mean nothing compared to the field of view of VR so this compared to what we've seen so far I was actually fairly impressed like that it actually goes out fairly far I was a little more concerned about the vertical restriction right because the vertical is like the width of the phone and these phones are all now sixteen by nine right you get more horizontal it's bigger than that of the postage stamp-sized that you typically describe exactly for the hololens but it's a different type of display system yes not using something that's pumping light directly in your retina it's not a projection based system so the image quality because it's reflecting off of your screen it's gonna be dependent on how bright your screen is yeah and I did ask about that I think that the OLED panels are going to give you a slightly better contrast for obvious reasons because the blacks are just off right so it's pure pass-through and that whatever pixels are lit are light sources so that's that's kind of the ideal scenario of course they were very cautious to say every every phone we'll have you know a similar experience and they're happy with where they've landed I think we're getting a little ahead of ourselves though we should explain what the experience is that you get from the actual device yes so it's called Jedi challenges and that's because it is a Star Wars themed game in addition to the headset in the display you have peripherals two of them actually there is this lightsaber this modeled lightsaber with a it looks like a chopped off blue tip right and then also this puck this uh this this beacon that you play somewhere in the room on the floor on the floor and that's because there is positional tracking there are two cameras that are part of this headset that then detect the IR light coming from that puck and also from lightsaber now with those that triangulation your position the lightsabers position and that puck they can put objects in your field of view in the real world so the game that we got to try was a Star Wars style lightsaber duel you put the puck on the ground and that provides a sense of where that plane is so they can put your opponent your VR virtual augmented opponent into the space with you standing on the same plane as you are so then you see them across the room and they advance towards you in this case it was kylo Ren your lightsaber that you're holding looks like you know basically Luke Skylar Skywalker's lightsaber but in a are the the lightsaber extends out of the tip of it so alignment exactly if you have a real world object this is what AR is all about you're holding a real world object yes the blue light comes out from lightsaber but they don't render the hill they only render the blade exactly so the refresh rate of your phone it's you're gonna bit sixty Hertz right most if you're moving your hilt really really fast it's not gonna catch up as much but even if you're holding it still I'm doing you're moving your slow movement how did you feel that alignment work for you it was pretty it's pretty good like I was impressed so the actual lightsaber has that IR tip on the end of it it also has its own built-in accelerometer so that's communicating with the headset or the phone in order to communicate you know angle and it gets positioned based on that IR tipping at the end so they have enough information to do it right it's just a matter of the processing power this is a question like will different phone provide the same experience or not because there are so many variables right right and then even in that gameplay you know when you're they're telling us about this before we tried it on but imagine okay if on linemen it's perfect if the refresh rate is good enough you know I want to have a full-on lightsaber battle with a virtual kylo Ren you're not having a real battle it's a it's a very simplistic game it's a game it's absolutely a video game and they give you what they call like force premonitions where they will show you a ghost of where you should put your lightsaber in order to defend yourself and it's kind of interesting because it's not a 2d game right it's the arse over AR it's in 3d so you have to position not just this way not just this way but this sort of six degrees and you have to place it in the right angle just in time for kylo to come in for his attack you block him and then you can get him back be Kors stun him and essentially it's a game of defend and attack it's the AR equivalent of a QuickTime event that's mush of mashing crime event on your traditional you know flat screen shooter except now you're actually moving your hand it's a little bit more than it QuickTime because that's sort of like press X it's positioning I think again is like Prince of Persia remember like the the sword dueling in that game it was like as very refined there's definitely like a fun mechanic there and if they amp up the the skill it seems like it could actually be a pretty decent challenge they said that Darth Vader would be too much for me to handle know at this point but I think really do have him later than Ryan Ryan played when I tried it the thing I was looking for in terms of the alignment with the world now you're not gonna get it's not light-filled you know you're not refocusing your eyes the foreground the background all focus to infinity like alignment lightsaber is one thing but how well does that floating kylo Ren fit into the world you're the room that you're in well it's not aware of anything and it's not all it knows is where that ground puck is and so it knows where the ground is so he's if you don't have an open space kylo is gonna walk through your couch and you know he looks like a ghost in they are he might as well walk through your couch and it's gonna be oriented always in front of you it's not like if he's standing there the virtual version you look this way and then you hear the sound he turned back to him uh-huh it's always gonna be kind of in your field of view right yeah and then kind of floating toward you I was impressed though given that really that puck is really it's best you know indication of where the ground is I was impressed by how much I could turn around and he would they would maintain position so like it seems to do a good job of not breaking that illusion you don't have to constantly face the same direction right please they have that three degrees I am um of detection so even if you turn around it knows you've rotated in place and then there are other games that compress so we didn't get a chance to play anything but the lightsaber duel but the two other game modes that they promised we're coming at launch are an RTS game that you play on the ground with little vehicles from you know obviously add ads and various Star Wars vehicles you play against the AI opponent I'm not sure how the controls would that work I mean and how do you select your your units and how do you do everything I imagine with the lightsaber it's an interesting question so it'd be curious to see with that as they seem to really like that game they're very proud of it the other game is hollow chess and they are calling it Hollow chest by the way it's not jarek know and they made a point of that because that's that rule set does exist ha and this isn't that this is not that they said the official rule set is a bit too complicated okay and so they wanted to make it a little more accessible and so they have created their own rules and this will be their version apologize and now both that kind of wave based RTS or strategy game and the whole chess game are gonna require good alignment to the ground to have characters and virtual objects come in the ground and the best sense that we out of that was the menu system I think in the the Jedi challenges they might say for a combat game because even before you get into fighting kylo Ren or Darth Vader they do have like a tier like a virtual menu system that floats around that beacon and you look at the planet you want a teleport to and I was pretty good yeah so I was pretty impressed I think Lenovo obviously had having developed a google tango based phone they they had the software engineers to work on AR and to make AR work with that type of depth setting data and we know that IR base beacons whether it's a movable beacon in your lightsaber or the beacon in the floor are good enough to give you position information yeah I'm excited about what they hinted was becoming and they strongly suggested that multiplayer is something that won't be available at launch but that multiplayer duel was something they really strongly intend to bring to the platform so you and me both potentially wearing these headset exactly holding our lightsabers and seeing the virtual blaze right how would that even work combat wise like we're not gonna actually I don't know like it doesn't know necessarily where I am or where you are yeah it's it I don't know they also in wanted to bring the Luke Skywalker training droid that makes the most sense I thought well that's how you train fit in the game I mean there's gotta be there at launch but they said no no but we can't talk about that yet but that's something that you know we very much so working on the headset itself kind of looks like the training headset with the blast shield down I can't even see that's the game that alone will be worth yeah the price of admission so it is interesting it is a mainstream for if this will be in stores and on their website so this is a mainstream attempt at getting AR into the mass Mart thats interesting like we really haven't seen any AR devices at all so I mean this is gonna be like the first like big leap into that they are meaning interaction with the real world not just holding a phone in front of you exactly exactly it by the way the lightsaber has a button on it I didn't get to use but there's a power button as well as a force power button yeah so when your lightsaber dueling you'll be able to push your enemies back and things like that it's interesting they also can change the color of the lightsaber that's not something available at lunch but maybe with that multiplayer thing you can have a red lightsaber and what I would hope is that Lenovo and potentially Disney and Star Wars uses this and thinks of as a platform and not just sell you this $200 kit to play the three mini games you know DLC in the future but think of other interesting ways as you have more people using this you know to do something a year later two years later maybe I even as phones get better you have to take advantage of those sensors as well yeah I mean - I mean I it'll be interesting to see you know what the market for this is I mean $200 it's kind of a good deal in the VR space we don't have much to compare it to in AR and it is such a unique experience it'll be interesting to me to see you know whether or not this finds a place in the in the market or not I do think the lightsaber is pretty cool I think Star Wars fans will probably dig this just because the quality of the lightsabers is pretty decent all right so that's Star Wars Jedi challenges it's gonna be out for this holiday season I think in November and we'll definitely trying it out in the office when we get to bed so Jeremy before we go I do want to ask you something you're not a r or V are related oh yes hijacked conversation a little bit because you saw some other Star Wars related toys robots at this event there were a few other toys there but the one that really caught my attention was the new stuff from Spiro okay we know them have made the bb-8 toy yeah that you guys disassembled yes yeah yeah which is no small mazing amazing toy I think they've they've done other robotics they did a Cars toy or Lightning McQueen $300 and I was interesting he actually told me some impact story on that they actually developed a Maya - robotic tool so that they have actual animators able to make whatever Maya animations they want if they would for a movie convert that into servos and everything that works in their own toy so it is pretty cool sexy like they said they had John Lasseter like consulting on the animation huh it's pretty cool anyway so this is a this is a company of geeks that love robotics and their new stuff coming out is certainly in the same vein so I was excited by these things one is an r2 unit okay which is about that tall like six seven inches tall I think he's gonna sell for I think they said about 170 okay and it's r2d2 I mean he stands up on his own he can he can spin around but then when you want to go forward he has a third wheel that kicks out of the bottom you can't even see it drops out it's totally enclosed it drops out and then he leans back as he does in the movie and he scoots around his head spins there's multicolored LEDs in his head and he makes all the sounds and and he'd again like they really nailed the animations even with r2 it has a mode where he gets hit by the Jawa gun and he spins around it makes all the sounds and then he flops over backwards Wow and it's all fun controlled it's all film controlled so yeah and it's very very cool the other robot that I saw there was the reveal oh wait hold on so if you're watching this video and you don't want any last Jedi spoilers you might want to see you next but I do want to hear some last Jedi spoilers lay it on me I was gonna surprise like there was a droid from the last gen I called bb9 II why yes so like maybe new model for whatever reason there's a new model called BB 90 and he is definitely an imperial at least that's what it looks like to me he is black with black with white stripes looks evil as can be but a ball but a ball he performs just like bb-8 except from the robotics geeky side they managed to put LEDs in the head now okay and the power for that is transferred totally inductive Oh from folks there's still two separate units yeah magnetic connection and then the head can move around and that has a part like I can understand inductive charging and power transfer from a static being a stationary device from one thing to another but this head it moves all over this ball oh my god that's pretty cool engineering on their part I mean I was impressed that may require another disassembly to see how that works I'd love to do that that's pretty and they are too unit man it's gonna speak to you it's very cool wait all right that does it for this week on projections we'll be back next week with more VR and AR talk until then Jeremy and I will see you next time\n"