 Hey everyone, this is Ross with The Verge. It is E3 2016. I am just outside the Alienware booth and right now I am wearing Alienware's Concept VR backpack. This is actually a full desktop PC. You've got USB ports on top. You've got little accessory bags right here. So there's like extra batteries and stuff. And the idea is this is a fully functional PC designed to run an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive level kind of headset. Untethered you can be able to walk around an arena. Good question, why would you want that? So right now there's basically two different kinds of VR hardware experiences. On one side you've got cardboard, you've got Gear VR, you've got these self-contained machines. Very low power but you can just hold everything in one spot. The other category, very high end, your Oculus Rift Vive, the best of the VR you can do, they require really big machines. So Alienware's VR backpack is trying to do the best of both worlds. It's taking the full desktop components and putting it in a very comfortable, well adjusted size thing that you can wear for an extended period of time. Obviously the high end VR headsets like Vive and Oculus right now have cameras to kind of track where you are positionally. You can't really do that on a backpack if it's with you at all times. That's why you have companies like Zero Latency who are using more of like a rougher version of this kind of idea. They've got cameras located all over their warehouse so you can kind of walk around in a much bigger space. And honestly, something that big, you can't tether yourself to a wire. You're going to trip over it. That's kind of where the big use case for a VR backpack is right now. At least until technology gets such a way that you can make everything into one headset that you can like basically carry without the huge components. In the meantime, we've got this. And at some point, everything you want for a high end VR experience will fit in the headset itself. We're not quite there yet, so in the meantime, what you've got is this kind of high school backpack experience that you can take Oculus Rift with you wherever you go. Because you really, really can't get enough of E-Valkyrie.
 Hey everyone, this is Ross with The Verge.
 It is E3 2016.
 I am just outside the Alienware booth and right now I am wearing Alienware's Concept
 VR backpack.
 This is actually a full desktop PC.
 You've got USB ports on top.
 You've got little accessory bags right here.
 So there's like extra batteries and stuff.
 And the idea is this is a fully functional PC designed to run an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive
 level kind of headset.
 Untethered you can be able to walk around an arena.
 Good question, why would you want that?
 So right now there's basically two different kinds of VR hardware experiences.
 On one side you've got cardboard, you've got Gear VR, you've got these self-contained machines.
 Very low power but you can just hold everything in one spot.
 The other category, very high end, your Oculus Rift Vive, the best of the VR you can do, they
 require really big machines.
 So Alienware's VR backpack is trying to do the best of both worlds.
 It's taking the full desktop components and putting it in a very comfortable, well adjusted
 size thing that you can wear for an extended period of time.
 Obviously the high end VR headsets like Vive and Oculus right now have cameras to kind
 of track where you are positionally.
 You can't really do that on a backpack if it's with you at all times.
 That's why you have companies like Zero Latency who are using more of like a rougher version
 of this kind of idea.
 They've got cameras located all over their warehouse so you can kind of walk around in
 a much bigger space.
 And honestly, something that big, you can't tether yourself to a wire.
 You're going to trip over it.
 That's kind of where the big use case for a VR backpack is right now.
 At least until technology gets such a way that you can make everything into one headset
 that you can like basically carry without the huge components.
 In the meantime, we've got this.
 And at some point, everything you want for a high end VR experience will fit in the headset
 itself.
 We're not quite there yet, so in the meantime, what you've got is this kind of high school
 backpack experience that you can take Oculus Rift with you wherever you go.
 Because you really, really can't get enough of E-Valkyrie.