- Hello, welcome to my brand new office.
Now that we have finally moved out of the old space,
I actually have this entire office to set up,
to do lots of work,
to do lots of video creation.
(laughs)
Who am I kidding?
I need a chill spot to be able to watch videos,
play games, and pretend to do work,
while Jared's out there doing actual work.
So it's all thanks to our good friends
over at Govee who are sponsoring this video,
who are providing not only their original,
sort of, immersion backlight,
but also they've got the brand new Backlight T2.
What's neat about this,
is that this actually takes advantage
of a dual camera setup
to give you a fully immersive TV setup.
While I have a lot of work to do
to actually build out the office,
the first thing you want to do
is focus on the TV,
which we have chosen
because it is almost exactly the right size for this wall.
Let's get this thing started.
So, we've already got the TV,
which this is again, a 65-inch TV.
Now, Govee were kind enough to send out
not only their original version of the Immersion,
but also the T2.
So, the T2 is I think,
what we're going to actually be using.
Obviously, you know, this is just the package
but you can, kind of, see the idea here, right?
If you have a very colorful scene,
you'll be able to have your TV,
kind of, almost blend into the background,
especially if you have sort of narrower bezels.
And what's nice about the Govee setup
is that it doesn't require you
to lose any performance, right?
So, a lot of other sort of setups
that require like an HDMI box and what not.
Yes, they work directly,
but the problem is you lose some features like HDMI 2.1,
or you can't run the actual apps
inside your TV or something.
This is universal.
Anything that is on your TV,
it will be able to replicate
with the RGB strips behind.
So, this is our PC.
- Do you try it?
- We'll talk about what's inside the PC later.
Let's see if it fits first.
That's.
- [Jared] See?
- Oh dude, look at this.
- [Jared] No test fitting required (laughing)
- Look at this.
There's not even a finger's worth of gap.
So inside we've got ourselves a 3080 Ti.
We also have a 12900KF,
as well as,
how much RAM did you put in here?
- [Jared] 32 gigs.
- 32 gigs.
Fun fact, this is going to be the first time
I've basically ever had my own office.
Even when I like, worked at home,
I didn't really have like,
it was a more of like a shooting space.
But this is actually like, my proper office.
(sniffing)
Smells like quality.
(sniffing)
And adhesive.
So the first step is going to be
just wiping down this surface,
which I think is actually pretty important.
Because you imagine,
if you're going to put these like,
sort of, strips with adhesive,
you don't want it to get stuck
or you don't want dust to make it sort of fall out.
This installation is pretty straightforward.
They've already kind of, pre-measured the strips.
You don't have to cut or do anything.
It's literally already designed.
(taps fingers)
Dude, this adhesive is great.
Like I know they've got the clips here,
just for a little bit of extra safety,
but like, they're not massively necessarily.
That's already like, basically done.
All right, let's do the bottom part,
and then honestly, we're done.
Look at that.
- [Jared] That was amazingly pain-free.
- I mean, I think it's mostly
because we're really talented and skilled,
but also, I think Govee did a great job
of designing some high quality strips here.
Like yes, of course,
they're sponsoring this video,
but that was way simpler than I thought.
So with our strip installed,
the next thing is to actually hook up the control module,
which really just needs power,
and it's got two USB-Cs,
one for the light and one for the camera.
So I'm just going to put this module
right in the middle here.
Like, this is a really neat setup,
especially if you're comparing this to the camera
that was set up in the original Govee T1.
This does not need any kind of sticker.
So it's actually got like, a weighted base,
which means that all you need to do
is line up in the middle, done.
No adhesive, nothing.
And if you ever need to take it off,
move your TV or for whatever reason,
you can just pick it right up.
Also, I like the fact that they're
using these two, super wide angle lenses.
Let's make sure this all works
before we cable manage anything else,
but honestly we're done.
Oh, look at that.
So we actually have a live feed from the camera.
- [Jared] That's so cool.
- So let's start, right here, and right here.
Calibration successful.
Upgrade the firmware,
and we're pretty much good.
While this is updating,
why don't we actually get the rest of the setup going?
So the next step here,
is going to be getting some audio going.
So what we're going to do
is something a little different
than what I typically do for these kind of setups.
So we're actually going to be using a soundbar
with a couple of satellite speakers and a sub.
For a room this size,
we don't need a massive amount of power, right?
Just having a little bit of that surround sound,
I think, is all we really need.
Because if I crank this thing,
everyone's going to get mad.
We've got ourselves the sub
and we've got ourselves the soundbar.
Oh, this actually,
this is going to fit pretty well.
And the fact that it's got the upwards firing Atmos.
While, I think on a soundbar,
the advantage you get with Atmos
is certainly a little limited,
because while you do get that sort of upward firing
it's not going to be anywhere near as strong
if you had actual like,
speakers in the ceiling or something.
But, it's certainly not going to hurt.
All right, my friends,
this setup is starting to look much better,
ignoring all the stuff (woman screaming)
that has not been unpacked or whatever.
But the most important part of the setup
is looking much better.
So this, is what the Govee T2 is all about.
And you can see, especially with this really cool backdrop,
I mean, the actual sync
and the colors look incredibly dope.
But that's not all we have for the setup.
While this is, of course,
the most important part,
Josh, would you mind?
Actually, Josh?
- Hey.
- Do you have some extra things for me?
- I have quite a few.
- I actually didn't know until
we started working on this video.
Josh has a ton of Govee stuff at his apartment,
who he very graciously tore down
and let me borrow for this video
so we can actually try some stuff out.
Is this a Govee tree?
- So, this is not a Govee tree.
(Austin laughs)
All of the goodies are in here,
but I'll explain later.
(indistinct)
All right, Austin.
So here, I mean you can take a,
take a quick peek, you know?
- Okay.
- [Josh] The non descript bag of lights.
- Oh, this just needs just a little splash, right?
- Exactly, so we got two of these.
These are just all my personal products.
I don't have the packaging for this anymore.
So excuse all the wires.
- Holy.
- Oh, that's, that's the big one.
- What is going on here?
- This is what? The glide light.
And you can connect all of these together.
Govee had the whole lot of options for us.
And you can customize these light bars.
We have six different light bars.
Look at this. you just clip them together.
- Where are we going to put all this?
I don't even think there's
going to be room for everything.
- So, I mean, like I said,
we might not have room for everything,
but maybe something like this.
Maybe put a little under glow
underneath the, underneath the couch.
Might be able to accomplish that with this.
- We put something actually inside the cabinet,
because right now we have our custom gaming PC,
but it's like completely dark and invisible.
Like you just can't see it behind the crate
because it's like, just very dark in there.
- No, we definitely have options for that.
- So what's this guy?
- So yeah, so this is just,
this lamp is what I found on Amazon.
The Govee product, its just a light bulb inside.
This is a smart LED bulb.
- [Austin] Oh, okay, okay.
- So yeah, simple enough.
You can plug this into literally any,
sort of, lamp source that you have.
Like I said, you can sync it all
with your different colors
and it works, works really, really well.
- Theoretically, if we can use
what the T2 is getting as far as the image
from the TV and pass that RGB information
through to other lights in the room.
Theoretically we could get a whole bunch
of the room all synced up on the exact same,
sort of RGB thing.
- There's some customization you can do,
also specifically picking a color palette.
Well, let's say, you know,
let's say we're turning gamer room into romantic room
and you want to get some, some pink and red.
- This took a turn,
I said to you today to come help with some RGB.
(indistinct)
- All right, all right,
lets get, lets get started.
(lighthearted music)
- Okay, so we've got a little bit
more done on the setup.
So I don't think we're fully done with things
but we've got the little tree here.
We've got the little lights to,
kind of, splash them on the wall.
So I'm feeling pretty good about things,
but let me actually show you what it looks like,
when it's fully up and running.
So, I'm going to pull up a Denki video here.
- Oh.
- [Austin] I've heard Denki, you makes terrific videos.
- [Ken] No it doesn't.
- That looks pretty cool though, right?
You can see the actual sync of the lights behind.
- [Josh] Woo.
- [Ken] Oh, I'd hang out in here.
- [Austin] We can do a whole lot more than that
because we also have the TV and the stereo.
- Oh, let's take a listen,
let's take a listen.
(trumpet music)
We should be here more often.
Listen, we can, we can get used to this.
♪ They get blickies poppin'♪
♪ Aint no options for my partners ♪
♪ So they resort to scams and robbin ♪
- Okay, I'll pause copyright music over for a second.
For such a lightweight sort of setup, right?
Because we basically just got
the sound bar in front of us.
We've got the two satellite speakers and the sub right
underneath the couch here.
I don't mind bothering everyone in the office.
- I don't mind.
- Matt, do you care when I'm cranking it in here?
- I'm on the other side of the building
(laughing)
- I can't hear anything from over here, so.
- We're not just here to look at some pretty lights.
This is a place for camaraderie.
This is a place for friendship and
for forging the bonds through intense games of.
- [Matt] Fortnite?
- Wait, what are we playing?
- We're not playing Fortnite.
No, no.
Actually we've got a bunch of emulators on here.
So it's one of the things that this PC,
is that we've got an emulator
for almost everything.
- [Ken] Legally obtained games.
- Yes, we, we juiced the Wii and we put it in the PC.
- [Ken] You juiced the Wii?
- We juiced the Wii.
- You milked the Wii, you know? (laughs)
- What could possibly go wrong?
Let's smash.
- Wrong couch.
- All right.
- I have to remember how to play
- Dude. So we're all in the same boat.
No one knows how to play.
- (indistinct)
- [Austin] Yeah, Xbox Control is going to trip me.
- [Josh] Get the smash thing.
- [Austin] I'm getting, I'm getting, I'm getting.
- [Josh] I want to smash.
Wait?
(Austin screaming)
- [Josh] I'm button mashing.
I don't know how to use it.
- [Austin] I'm going to steal it from you, Josh.
You're not going to have that anymore.
- Everyone ready to go to the Kirby Cafe?
- [Josh] Get me out of the pot.
(crowd shouting)
- [Austin] It's getting spicy in here.
Look how good this RGB actually looks though.
I mean, especially when you look at
how well it helps the TV to, kind of,
blend in.
- The RGB looks great,
when I am about to wreck Mario.
- [Ken] I've only seen him on you, on (indistinct).
(cheering)
(indistinct)
- Yes, I got it, I got it at the end.
(laughing)
- [Austin] Lets go baby.
Smash champion of the world right now.
Thank you very much to Govee
for sponsoring this video
and enabling the office to turn into Austin's smash zone.