 Hey, it's James from The Verge. I'm here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and I am looking at LG's 360VR, which is a virtual reality headset that connects to their new flagship smartphone, the G5. I'm currently going through a little bit... 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's 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 light. 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 360VR 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 the 360VR is 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, that's just a bit underdeveloped. For more information about the 360VR and everything else LG has announced recently, you can go to theverge.com or check out youtube.com forward slash the verge for more videos.
 Hey, it's James from The Verge. I'm here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and I am
 looking at LG's 360VR, which is a virtual reality headset that connects to their new
 flagship smartphone, the G5. I'm currently going through a little bit... 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's 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 light. 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 360VR 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 the 360VR is 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,
 that's just a bit underdeveloped. For more information about the 360VR and everything
 else LG has announced recently, you can go to theverge.com or check out youtube.com forward
 slash the verge for more videos.