- BAH! Oh, that's so cool. I'm sorry, dude.
- He's gonna slam-dunk it! - (cheering)
♪ (upbeat video game music) ♪
- (FBE) Today, you'll be playing a game
that's gonna throw you in an epic zero-gravity eSports competition
in space called Echo Arena. - "Echo Arena."
That sounds [bleep] cool.
- What the [bleep] does that mean, zero-gravity?
We're going to be lifting off the ground?
- What? Wait, what?
I get to be a [bleep] astronaut today.
- (FBE) Echo Arena is a multi-player spin-off
of Lone Echo, which pits two teams against each other
in a Tron-esque ultimate frisbee match in space.
- Damn, frisbee in space?
- (FBE) So this game is for the Oculus Rift,
meaning you'll be competing with your team in space
in virtual reality. - Ooh!
- We're gonna have a [bleep] blast!
- (FBE) First, we're going to have one of the developers
teach you how to play, and then we'll have you play
two matches online in the arena.
- Okay, that's fair.
- This is like some intergalactic Olympics going down.
- I'm so stoked. Let's go.
♪ (techno music) ♪
- Oh. Oh my god! Yo, this is lit.
- What's going on?!
- (Capt. Mars) Hey, Tom, how's it going?
- Whoa, no! Dude, that's a person.
- Is this a real person?
- (Capt. Mars) I'm Captain Mars, nice to meet you.
- Okay, okay.
- (Capt. Mars) This is a real person-- or a really good AI.
If you're close to environment, you can reach out
and press that middle finger button by the trigger.
- Uh-huh, and climb up?
- (Capt. Mars) And you'll be able to grab on.
- Okay, that's tight.
- This is just like Ender's Game and 12-year-old me is freaking out.
- (Capt. Mars) So this is a mini-representation
of our Echo Arena. - Awesome.
- (Capt. Mars) We're gonna be on the blue team,
and so once we're in, we'll be coming
out of these tubes right here on the wall-- ptchoo--
and then we'll be looking for the disc and score 'em
into the orange team's goal. - Okay.
- (Capt. Mars) Let's take you over and do some combat, all right?
- Combat? Wait, we're gonna be fighting?
- (Capt. Mars) You'll see a white overlay come up.
That's your punch glove.
Give me a whack there, bro. - BRAH!!
Oh, that's so cool! I'm sorry, dude.
I'm sorry, captain. - (Capt. Mars laughing)
So when you do that, it'll stun the enemy player
and they'll drop the disc, which will give you a chance
to kind of push on the offensive.
Here's the disc.
Let me see if you can catch this for me.
- Yeah, I'm ready. (disc warbling)
- (Capt. Mars) Nice.
Now see if you can pass it back.
Yeah, nice throw!
That's actually one of the better first throws I've seen.
- (chuckling)
(disc warbling) - Catch.
- (Capt. Mars) Nice. - Thrust forward.
- (Capt. Mars) Oh! Nice shot. - Okay, let's go.
I'm ready to play this.
- Are you on my team?
- (Capt. Mars) I'll be on your team.
- Hell yeah, let's go! (laughing)
(electrical surge)
- (FBE) Labib, can you put your Oculus on?
Tom, can you tell Captain Mars that you guys are ready?
- (Tom) Hey, Captain Mars, we're ready. Let's go!
- (Capt. Mars) Here we go. Here we go. - Oh, I see you.
- (announcer) Blue team, ready!
- (Capt. Mars) Follow me into tube number one, guys.
Let's do this thing.
(overlapping speech)
- (Tom) This is so cool! - (Rachel) Oh my god!
- (Tom) Come on! Let's go!
(all yelling)
- (announcer) The team has cleared the launch.
- (Tom) Where's the disc? - (Labib) All right.
- (overlapping speech)
- (Capt. Mars) You can see the outline through the environment.
(accelerating)
(loud boom)
- (Capt. Mars) We got the disc, guys.
We're about midfield, so let's see here.
Who's open?
All right, let's see. Rachel! Rachel!
- (Tom) Rachel! - (overlapping speech)
- (Rachel) Oh, wait, did someone punch me?
- (Tom) Yeah.
- (Capt. Mars) Yeah, someone punched you.
- (Rachel) God damn it!
- (Capt. Mars) Let's go, blue team. Back on orange, back on orange.
- (Labib) I got it. I got it. I got it.
- (Capt. Mars) Nice. Move it up, move it up.
I'll attack the goalie.
Ah-ha. (loud boom)
(Capt. Mars grunting) - (Tom) Oh, I missed!
I dropped it. - (Capt. Mars) So close.
All right, Tom, see if you can get it back up there.
- (Labib) They're on the other side. Oops.
- (Rachel) Tom, I'm over here.
- (Tom) Here you go.
- (Capt. Mars) There you go. Nice throw to Rachel.
Throw it in! - (Tom) Yeah, Rachel!
(all cheering)
- (Rachel squealing) - (Tom) Woo!
- (Rachel) Oh my god! - (Capt. Mars laughing)
- (Rachel) The adrenaline has kicked in, guys!
- (Tom) High-five. Yeah! (whooping)
- (Rachel) I'm completely turned around.
Oh my god. I made a goal.
- (Capt. Mars) The round's resetting. - (Tom) We gotta go quick.
- (announcer) Three, two--
- (Capt. Mars) You guys want to hold onto my shoulder.
We can all just catapult. - (Tom) Oh, hell yeah!
I'm holding on. - (Capt. Mars) Oh, you got it?
- (Tom) Yeah.
- (Capt. Mars) You can push off me for some speed.
Go ahead and push off and pull forward.
(loud crash) - (Tom) Oh!
- (Capt. Mars) Ooh, they got me. They got me.
- (Labib) Right there, right there. Right there, Tom. Get it.
- (Capt. Mars) You got it, Tom.
- (Labib) Dude, I keep hitting the punch button.
- (Capt. Mars) Labib, Labib! - (Rachel) Where'd you go?
- (Capt. Mars) There you go, Tom. There you go.
(all cheering) - (Tom) Okay, okay.
Not too bad.
- (Labib) Tom got that W right there. Let's go.
- (Tom) Captian Mars just set me up for that. Hell yeah.
It's so cool. It's like a zero-gravity actual sport.
- It's so much fun.
You feel like you're almost playing soccer/quidditch on the field, like,
"Yo, pass it to me real quick," and moving around.
Setting up a screen so your teammate can go through and score,
so there's different aspects that make it feel like
a real sport going on.
(electric surge)
- (Capt. Mars) We'll be going in number five here.
- (Brandon) Let's go to number five, guys! Ready?
(screaming) Let's go! Oh my god!
U.S.A, baby! Where you at, orange team? I'm comin' for you, boy!
Oh, a solid steal, Captain Mars.
- (Capt. Mars) Bottom right, Eric and Brandon--
- Okay, there you go. - (Capt. Mars) Brandon, there you go.
- (Eric) Oh my god. - (Brandon) YEAH!!
- (Eric) Oh, what just happened?! Oh, I got punched.
- (Capt. Mars) They got punched.
- (Eric) Violence isn't the answer, orange team!
- (Morgan) If it just goes in by itself, does that count?!
- (Brandon) That's all that matters. (loud boom)
- (Morgan) I just punched someone.
- (Brandon) That's what's going on, bitches!
That's what's going on!
- (Capt. Mars) Eric. (Eric yelping)
Nice! - (Capt. Mars) Nice! Nice pass.
- (Brandon) I got that butt. Let's go!
- (Capt. Mars) There it is. There it is.
- (Brandon) Go! Go! Go! Go! - (Morgan squealing)
- (Brandon) No! [Bleep]!
Where'd it go? (sighing) - (Morgan) He has it.
This guy has it. Connor. - (Capt. Mars) Oh no.
- (Morgan) It's over here. Aaaah!
- (Brandon) Get it, get it, get it, get it!
- (Eric) I got it.
No! - (Morgan) Someone get it.
They're targeting me!
- (Capt. Mars) Nice push, guys, nice push.
- (announcer) Blue yanks it away!
- (Capt. Mars) You got someone on you, you got someone--
- (Brandon) No, no, no, no.
- (Capt. Mars) You got time, you got time.
- (Brandon) He's gonna slam dunk it. (all cheering)
- (Eric) Oh my god, there's color! It's like a Pink Floyd laser light show.
This is the best moment of my life!
- (announcer) Three, two, one! - (all) Woo!
- (Brandon) Did we win? - (Capt. Mars) Good first game.
- That was the most exhilarating moment of my life.
- That was intense.
- It's just so insane, that you're interacting
with people virtually, you know?
(electric surge)
- (announcer) ...two, one! - (Tom) 'Ey, let's go!
- (Labib) Let's go.
- (Tom) Uh-oh, someone's already up there.
- (Capt. Mars) Team's already there. Team's already there.
- (Rachel) I punched her in the face. - (Tom) Nice, nice.
- (announcer) And there's the steal! - (Labib) Beautiful, guys.
- (Capt. Mars) All right, let's move forward, guys,
let's move forward. - (Labib) Back in the orange zone.
Back in the orange zone.
- (Tom) Nice.
Nice grab, Rachel.
- (Rachel) Is there anyone on me? - (Tom) Nah, you're good.
Oh, someone's comin' behind you, though.
- (Capt. Mars) There's one coming up, one coming up.
- (Labib) Oh, ooh-- I got it. - (Tom) Take it, Labib.
- (Capt. Mars) Yo, throw it! (all cheering)
(whooping and laughter) - (Labib) Let's go. 'Ey, 'ey, 'ey, 'ey.
- (Labib) You guys see that moving screen I set up?
All right, back at it. - (Tom) Just like that, guys.
Just like that. - (Labib) Let's go.
- (announcer) And orange clears it! - (Tom) Oh!
That dude just decked me hard!
- (Labib) Let me get that! Ah!
- (Capt. Mars) You're good, you're good, you're good.
Take a shot! - (Tom) Take a shot.
- (Rachel) Take a shot, Labib. - (Capt. Mars laughs)
Nice! (all cheering)
- (Tom) Nice shot! Hell yeah.
- (Labib) That was long-distance, let's go.
- (Tom) I know! That was some distance, dude.
- (Labib) Let's go. - (all) Woo!
- (Tom) Let's go.
(electric surge)
- (Eric) I don't know how to do this, by the way.
- (Capt. Mars) Let go before you get to the end of the tunnel.
- (Morgan) He's already got it. He's already got it.
He's already got it. Aaah!
- (Eric) No! Come here. Come back here, Connor!
- (announcer) Blue catches the enemy pass.
- (Capt. Mars) All right, Morgan-- - (Morgan) I'm right here.
I missed it!
- (Eric) What? - (Capt. Mars) There you go.
- (Eric) Grab it!
(overlapping yelping, yelling) - How did he do it so quickly?
NO! Crap! (Capt. Mars laughing)
- (Eric) I like the guitar solo, though.
- (Brandon) I'm comin'. - (Eric) Go! Go!
- (Morgan shrieking) - (Brandon) I wasn't ready.
All right, come on.
- (Eric) I feel like we're doing really weird archery.
- (Morgan) Okay, okay, okay.
- (Eric) Captain Mars just got the disc.
And we just desperately need to get some points.
Hey, hey, hey! Hwah!
Just punch them.
- (Morgan) Wait, what happened?
- (overlapping speech)
- (Eric) Which way to go?
- (Brandon) 2-3, them winning for now.
- (announcer) Five, four, three-- - (Morgan) I'm on you, Brandon.
- (Brandon) Oops, we didn't make it in time. Oh well.
- (announcer) The teams have cleared the launcher.
- (Eric) I want it! - (Capt. Mars) Here we go, guys.
- (Morgan) Go, go, go. Ah! Aaaaaah!
- (Brandon) Woo! - (Capt. Mars) There you go.
- (Brandon) I'm coming with you.
- (Eric) First in the game, first to score a goal.
- (Brandon) No, I lost it. No!
- (announcer) Team orange yanks it away.
- (Brandon) Come on, you got it, you got it!
All right, come on! - (Eric) Ohhhh!
- (all exclaiming)
- (Eric) Guys, we got 30 seconds. We need to get this.
(exhaling deeply)
- (Capt. Mars) Brandon? - (Brandon) Yep?
Brandon! Brandon! - (Brandon) Dang it!
(all cheering)
- (all) Woo!
- (Brandon) Last second goals are the best second goals.
You were all struggling really hard,
and then Captain Mars just kind of grabbed it and it went bink!
And it went in.
It's amazing. I was floating.
It's the coolest experience ever. - It was pretty [bleep] cool.
- This is the future of video games,
and I'm just so excited to see how far it's gonna go.
- The only difference between this and real sports
is that this, you can just sit at home
and wear some goggles-- - In your underwear.
- That's it.
- Thanks for watching us play in the Echo Arena
on the React channel.
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- Hey, guys, I'm Zach, producer at the React channel.
Thank you so much for watching,
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See ya!