(whimsical music)
- What's up guys, David and Jay here
and virtual reality is no longer just a gimmick.
With mobile tech getting better and better
it's pretty safe to say that VR
is almost ready for the masses.
So in today's episode of App or Crap,
we're going to be taking a look at the Netflix app
on the Samsung Gear VR
or what I like to call the GeR.
Now since I have a bunch of experience actually
using VR, we're gonna have Jay put on the headset
and walk us through the Netflix app,
giving us his initial impressions.
You ready?
- Okay, home screen and click on my good friend Netflix.
Me and Netflix go way back.
And that is freakin amazing.
This TV is huge.
This makes me feel bad about my apartment though.
(laughter)
Puts my place to shame.
I'm sitting on a red couch,
and there's a Netflix remote that I can't touch
but I want to right there.
There's a couple of Netflix shows,
Daredevil,
I'm Asian and that guy's Asian and that's a white guy,
I'm not sure who that is.
I'm looking,
it basically operates just like you would
if you were using a remote or controller at home
with your regular TV
but instead of a remote,
you can see the little cross hair that you actually point
to each item and click
so I'm assuming you just go here
and then click on the side.
There you go.
And the first thing that pops up is
the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, fantastic.
(laughter)
And it's loading up and it's literally,
oh my goodness.
It's almost like, I just kinda had a brain fart
cause the immersion is really really awesome.
Everything just turned off.
All the entire room just literally turned off.
Alright so I tap the button on the side
and now everything turned back on in the room,
so it's back to kinda normal.
I guess I could, oh there you go.
So I just have to look at the options in the corner
here and, oh, I don't know how,
oh, here's the return button,
so you have to kinda look around the entire screen
which I guess could be kinda annoying
because you have to literally like look
here and here.
Maybe if you had like a central console
where I could control everything in the center of the TV.
- [Voiceover] Let me ask you this.
How do your eyes feel right now?
- My eyes feel really good.
They don't hurt at all.
Back in the day when I owned a Virtual Boy
it was almost kinda the same exact design.
It's like a giant face helmet.
- [Voiceover] You don't feel nauseous?
- No I don't feel nauseous,
I well glasses now and I'm pretty sure it's because
of the Virtual Boy.
- [Voiceover] Do you see any pixels?
- Yeah.
- [Voiceover] You moved your head forward.
- It's not to a point where it's like
pixels on a PlayStation One or old Xbox.
- [Voiceover] It's not too much but it could be better.
- It could be better.
With this phone being as high quality as it is
as we go into the future it's probably gonna just get
better and better.
But this doesn't feel like a gimmick at all,
that's a great thing about it,
it doesn't feel like a gimmick.
- [Voiceover] So could you see yourself
using this to actually watch Netflix?
- Yes.
I don't even have to think about that.
It's, yes.
- First and foremost I guess I gotta ask you,
what do you think, app or crap?
- It's definitely an app
compared to some other experiences
that you told me about VR,
people getting sick or things I've read about.
Did not get sick at all wearing this thing.
- There are some cons right?
- Yeah.
- So what would you say they are though?
- One thing I do wanna say
and I noticed it after we watched playcback
is that it fucks your hair up.
(laughter)
- [Voiceover] You didn't say anything.
It's more so dependent on the actual headset,
not necessarily the app right?
- True, true.
- So the pixel does need to be better,
that's due to the screen on the phone.
The weight is due to the headset itself
and the phone being mounted onto there.
And the hair (laughter),
we're gonna count that as a con.
- Y'all just wear hats like this fool.
He never has a problem cause he always wears a hat.
You couldn't orientate it to be fully relaxed.
If you watch a video,
I'm like sitting up the entire time
and I wanna lean back on that couch
and be able to look up and watch,
but whenever I leaned back I had to look down
to actually watch what I'm watching
so being able to re-orient it
to where I could literally--
- Like make it up so when you're lying down?
- Yeah.
- [Voiceover] Really it's about the pros.
What are they to you?
What's the biggest one?
- [Voiceover] The biggest one for me is just
watching the app.
I was really expecting something that was lackluster,
like, "Okay, Netflix."
It's literally going to be the same exact thing
I see on TV with all my other devices,
but no, they went out of their way
to create an entire room.
- That is pretty much it for us and this video.
See you guys in the very next episode.
So stay tuned.
- Wear a hat.
- (laughs) Wear a hat.
- Just wear a hat.