- A mouse and keyboard.
A controller.
These are the tools of the gamer,
but is that really the best that we can do as a society?
What if there was something that allowed for
a more immersive and exciting gameplay experience
than anything you've ever experienced before?
What if that was a thing?
Well, today we have that thing.
Ladies and gentlemen, and other people,
this is...
the arcade motion blaster.
It's a motion controller shaped like a gun
because you can use it
in games that have guns in them.
The people at arcades say that this thing can
enable the type of immersive,
you know,
crazy, mind-blowing gaming experiences
that you just can't get with a,
with a mouse and keyboard.
So we're gonna try it out today
and see whether...
it's good.
Brandon are you excited?
- [Brandon] So excited.
- Big gamer, huh?
- [Brandon] Big, huge gamer.
- You don't play games.
- [Brandon] No.
- But maybe if you had this thing.
- [Brandon] Only if I had that thing.
- If you had this thing maybe you'd get all the head shots.
- [Brandon] That's the qualifier.
(gun banging noises)
- Every time.
How it works.
Mobile, PC, and motion tracking.
All three of those things.
That's how it works, in case you were wondering.
It's got a high, high-precision gyroscope,
low latency bluetooth,
haptic feedback, (buzzing sound) like that.
Rechargeable battery, I should hope so.
Works with the top PC and mobile games.
Doom Eternal, Call of Duty, Fortnite, PUBG,
Valorant, Counter-Strike,
that's all on the PC side.
On the mobile side we got
Fortnite, Modern Combat, Shadowgun, Roblox.
Now that's what I'm talking about.
Now, they have like,
a certain amount of like, certified games,
but they also say that it should
pretty much work with any game.
We'll put that to the test.
All right, let's take it out.
Okay, whoo.
All right, I like the feel of it.
Like it, it is light,
but it also, I mean, I don't, it does,
definitely doesn't have heft to it,
but it, but it definitely,
I think maybe it's just the structure
that makes it feel good in the hand.
You got your phone holder here,
Which you can loosen that
and adjust it to your,
to your liking.
Why would you want to put it all the way around?
So they can stare death in the face as you
do a 360 no-scope on their, on their butts.
You saw, you should have seen this coming.
Um, so let's put that around there,
that's probably where you want it.
And you can also slide this all along.
Yeah, so if you want to play,
if you want to play right up in the game like this you can.
I feel like I'm there.
If you want to do that, you can,
or if you want to have it a little farther back.
Maybe this is like the situation where you have it there
and you're playing a PC game and you're
really looking at the monitor but,
I don't know.
We're gonna find out.
Looking more at the physical device here,
we got a joystick,
X Y Z buttons over here,
trigger here,
and then you have these buttons,
which I believe are the movement buttons.
So I think this is gonna be forward
and this is gonna be back.
And then this is strafing
side to side, right and left.
But I guess like, if you're holding it like this,
it's kind of like,
that's your regular joystick looking around on a controller.
And then this would be your, you know what I mean?
The two sticks?
Alright anyways,
over here we got a whole plethora of buttons.
A plethora of buttons.
Abcdefgh.
So I'm assuming you can, like, re-map these.
Arcade has given me instructions for how to set this up
because I don't think this is actually,
fully out for anyone to just buy yet,
so we're gonna, we're gonna test it out here.
First let's get it paired up to my, to this phone.
So power button.
Ooh, pretty lights.
Green, work, and blue.
RGB, baby.
We are, what does that mean?
Is that, oh that might mean it's pairing.
And we are connected.
Okay, Shadowgun War Games.
Here we go.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna start the game.
Okay, they got some Fortnite, Fortnite dances. (laughs)
Very cool, very cool.
This seems like a game for young and hip, cool people.
Okay, so yeah, indeed these,
these buttons are back and forth,
so you gotta get used to using those.
I think I have to stand up, Brandon.
Brandon I need freedom.
- [Brandon] You need freedom?
- Don't hold me back.
Oh no, bad guys!
Oh, okay I got a kill.
Who the heck is that?
Oh, it's Tracer!
(laughter)
It's not Tracer.
I got killed.
I got killed somehow,
but I already got a kill with it, so like,
this is, this is look around,
but also the joystick is,
the left joystick is also look around.
So I guess that's how if you,
if you like get, if your motion gets knocked off,
then you can like correct it that way.
So like, if I do this,
now I'm looking straight but my gun is looking down.
But maybe I just deal with that, you know.
Maybe it doesn't really matter.
It definitely takes some getting used to.
Like I will say, because I am still getting used to it.
Also, this mobile game,
and a lot of mobile games have it set to like,
automatically fire when you mouse over,
or, you know your cursor goes over a bad guy.
So it's, it's a little confusing
because I'm trying to to play this
and get some like, precision headshots
but, you know, it's firing for me
and I'm like don't fire yet I want to, whoa!
What is this game?
Is this a game that people play?
Like there are people who are good at this game.
Maybe they're playing with arcade motion blasters too
and they have more practice.
I would definitely like to see them put in a little bit more
development towards, like,
making it one-to-one,
because if you're playing a game,
like the whole point of having precision aim is
so that you can kind of like do this
and have that track to your movements in game.
But right now it's like,
it's more like this is just a big joystick,
where to go left you move it left
but that doesn't translate to exactly 45 degrees,
like the turn that you did.
It's more like do this for a little bit
and he'll turn left for a little bit.
Okay, so that's enough of that
I'm gonna try Fortnite now, the classic.
It's giving me, it's giving me the on-screen controls,
like the touch controls.
Sorry, but I don't need them. (gun cock)
Lock and load.
Okay, so now I have to press A to jump.
It's the first time that I'm,
I have to use a button.
Oh gosh, I have to jump or
I'm gonna be stuck in the party bus.
I don't want to be the last one to the party.
You can also do it by like,
recalibrating that way,
'cause it's, it's definitely not one-to-one.
I'm, this might be a little bit worse than War Games.
Or uh, Shadowgun War Games.
What am I doing here?
(laughter)
I looked down so far that the screen reversed.
I'm gonna die so fast.
Oh, bad guy!
Oh!
(laughter)
Okay, and I want to adjust my view a bit.
Am I going the wrong way?
I am.
Like it's definitely cool.
Like it's definitely, this is definitely a cool experience
and I'm enjoying it.
It's more intuitive than, you know,
a noob who would pick up a controller for the first time
and just be like "what am i doing?"
Like you look left, you look right, that's how you do it.
But it's still, you still have to spend some time
to get used to it.
And honestly the biggest thing to get used to
is the movement mechanics.
Like left and right with your thumb like this,
and forward and back with your,
like middle finger and pinky?
Or maybe you can just like, adjust your,
your grip like that?
I don't know.
I mean it's, it takes some getting used to.
And see if I can get one more kill and then,
or, or get killed myself.
(laugher)
Oh, Brandon I never thought I would get kills in this game,
for real.
That's amazing!
I love Fortnite!
Linus!
I'm getting kills in mobile Fortnite!
You know what?
I take back what I said about this being kind of janky,
because I, who am a complete Fortnite noob,
like I played some PUBG.
I played a little bit of Fortnite like,
benchmarking for a video before,
but like I have not played mobile Fortnite at all
and I have gotten, how many kills is that?
Three or four kills?
That's ridiculous.
Okay, well, the verdict for Fortnite is good for this thing.
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Okay so what we just did,
connecting via bluetooth,
is the way that you would use this just with your PC
without streaming it to your phone.
But, if you want to stream the game to your phone
so you can look at this.
You're streaming your PC game to this
and you're like moving around all the way,
360 like that,
then you want to use their special app called Space Disk.
So, okay I'll try a PC game without Space Disk.
Here we go.
See now this, I did,
I automatically see that this is a problem
because I can only look one direction.
I mean I guess I, oh I can do this
and scope all the way around, hmm.
This might be better than I thought it was.
I'm doing this and it's like, it's like a mouse.
- [Brandon] How's the latency?
- I, there is almost zero latency
from what I can tell.
I mean it's a bluetooth peripheral,
so obviously there's gonna be some latency,
but like, I'm not seeing a ton.
Die.
Oh!
What difficulty is this on?
It's a bit awkward because, you know,
I'm not aiming like where I want to aim
but that would be solved by
streaming the game to the phone
and then I could be like looking where I'm aiming.
So I feel like I want to do that.
This is kind of interesting.
It's like, it's basically like holding a mouse
that you control by like, moving around like that.
Aha!
I'm not gonna talk about all of the technical issues
that I just dealt with in order to get to this point,
but we're here I'm streaming a PC game to my mobile device.
I'm controlling the mouse with the Arcade Motion Blaster,
so suffice to say, there were some technical issues,
They have a document telling you how to deal with them,
but here we are, I just want to play some games.
So here we're, I'm just gonna do it.
So now I'm, I can spin all the way around
and I can see how this goes.
Let's look for some bad guys.
Brandon, what do I do?
- [Brandon] Are you feeling latency?
Are you feeling like...
- There's definitely latency.
There's definitely choppiness.
Yeah there's just maybe a little too,
there's just maybe a bit too many...
- [Brandon] That sounds like too many vairables
that would allow for a bad experience.
- Yeah, there's too many variables.
The motion blaster is connected to my PC via bluetooth.
The PC is streaming via Wi-Fi to my phone.
This thing's not connected to my phone.
I wonder if that would be better,
if like, your, the blaster was connected to the phone
and then that was serving as the controller
going through the Wi-Fi connection for the game stream.
Suffice to say that this particular setup where
this is connect to the PC,
your PC is streaming to your phone via Wi-Fi,
is not the best way to use this.
Oh, and we got disconnected.
So that's a good place to stop. (laughter)
Guys, what to say about this?
I mean it's definitely cool.
PewDiePie backed it.
I think PewDiePie has like a special bundle
that you can get with this.
It's definitely fun,
like if you're the type of person to,
to get something, and you want to fiddle around with it
and like tinker, and things like that,
there's definitely a lot of potential here
for really cool experiences,
but if I was to tell you that it's something you can
just pick up and immediately have the
best experience with ever,
that's not true.
It definitely takes some fiddling.
I will say with their suggested games that you try on,
on Android, it's pretty much plug and play.
And I think the best time that
I had with this thing in this whole video was fortnight,
right, I got like four kills dude.
Yeah, at uh, at the end of the day,
this definitely takes some work
to get used to
and I don't know whether
the industry will want to,
you know adjust to this.
When we've got pretty decent method of control already.