If nothing else all of this tomfoolery with that vive over there uuh.
Has gotten me this.
These are some packages from Alan Yates.
The godfather of the HTC Vive.
Let's open them and see what's inside.
Let's just throw them on the ground.
So, they said that they were moving offices over at valve.
Oh my gosh.
No way.
What?
It's gutted.
But wow.
That's cool.
so you can see all the BPW34's and it's without the filters.
Oh my gosh look.
That's.
I've never seen that.
Is that even.
Diopter adjuster.
But it's not like ours.
Well, yeah, this is prototype material.
Gosh.
There's more.
*LAUGHTER*.
Oh man.
And they have two cameras.
Neat.
What's going on.
I don't know what this is but I think I'm going to find out.
Oh man, it's one of those.
It's one of the prototype ones.
What do they take?
It looks like an 18650.
CR123A.
Oh my gosh.
I wonder if it uses the same watchman protocol.
It's interesting that even on this one.
If you can zoom in.
They don't have...
You can buy the photodiodes with the filters.
They chose not to do this.
Just a different plastic on the case.
I wonder why.
So at any rate, Alan said that they were changing offices.
And that this is some of the stuff that would be thrown away normally.
Treasure trove here.
What is this?
It's the guts of one of the prototypes I guess.
Hey, here's the RF module.
I wonder if it uses the same Nordic chip that they use.
It has the same NXP chip that's in the lighthouse.
These are, if you look at the back here.
These are actually the passive circuit.
So, all of this stuff that's inside right here there's gotta be like 40 or 50 parts
on there.
They're really tiny.
All of those things are put into a single chip by Triad semiconductor for the real parts.
What is this thing?
Key chains.
It's a steam controller key chain.
That's super cool.
So, it's.
My gosh it's a ton of batteries.
So they're in series.
Inside the controller they use six volts.
Which is probably to increase the reverse voltage on the photodiodes.
And steam dongles of some kind.
I don't know what this is.
These are probably just the wireless receivers which probably match up to these guys.
Which, I would love to mess with.
More wireless dongles.
That is going to keep me busy for a long time.
Let's keep digging.
Early chicklets?
Two?
Just Two?
Look at how they're set up.
Oh, there's...
Ok.
I don't know how I can make this focus on this.
So, there's still more of the passive solutions.
Hey, here's some chicklets with the tiny part back there.
All of the parts on these (well most of them) fit inside of the chips that are on here,
from Triad.
Hey.
You know what this is?
Oh, it's an adapter.
Did you already post the video of you attempting to interface with that?
No, but he told me earlier that.
Ok, yeah, we needed that.
These are some big chicklets.
This is insane.
We can turn it on and off and like when I was sitting over there and kept rebooting
the lighthouse.
We can just do this and switch the lighthouse on and off.
He must have seen you doing that and said I've been there.
I have a solution.
What?
Oh my goodness.
It is.
Oh, it's missing the.
It's missing the.
No!
It has them!
I think you guys have seen this before.
This.
I think this is the version they have a high speed IR video of.
This is the really early version of the lighthouse.
Oh my gosh.
I like the machine'd aluminum case.
It's so insane.
Since it's so metal would you say that it's metal or steampunk.
Oh that.
You know what I would love to do, is I would love to see this thing duke it out with a
modern lighthouse and see which one.
Ooh that would be an interesting idea.
I wonder if there's more people out there that they picked to send stuff to.
By the way.
Thank you very much.
By the way I was going to find some more.
What is this?
*ghasp* even more prototype lighthouses?
Oh.
I don't want to open it now but I've never seen.
I don't want to open this now.
We can go through everything later.
This is already 10 minutes in.
And we've only half.
Oh my goodness.
Hey modern ones.
Oh no it's different.
Oh it says "fixed by Alan."
Oh, I've seen that one.
That's neat.
This is very similar to the other one, but it's a little more sophisticated it looks
like.
Look at these property tags.
It's so legit.
Model: batman.
So, that one says TDM master, and the other one says TDM slave.
So, I guess that means the earlier units must not be able to synchronize with each other.
Actually, they can't, because this one doesn't have a photosensor on it.
So that means that this model and before there was no way to have multiple lighthouses.
So that must have come later.
Are these trays of sensors?
I think so.
Oh, they're all wrapped up.
Look at the shape.
Yes, they are.
Oh, you opened the wrong side of that, Charles.
They're supposed to sit down in the recesses.
Eleven.
That's such a weird number of sensors.
These are different.
Oh, what is this?
What are those?
These are the passive parts.
Oh, they're unpulated.
That's cute.
Oh wow.
so that would mean there is a mezzanine connector there that these would sit on.
So, that means if these were done in 2015 they were really bookin' it with their hardware
design.
That's no surprise.
That's how all that stuff works now.
That's insane.
I can't imagine doing anything like this in less than 10 years.
More trays.
Trays for days.
Yeah, they're all the same.
I would imagine it was for the early prototyping stage where they were 3D printing stuff and
sticking those onto things.
That would be my guess.
That's how I would do that.
If one present, the father of the Vive was not enough, there's another box.
There's another box!
Oh.
Come get closer.
Let me.
Our professional box opening tools.
Everything.
I get paid that makes it professional.
What?
Oh.
They sent you static bags with bubble.
Oh.
*laughter*, At MAGFest we had talked about taking the badges and making them so they
could work with the HTC vive.
Like the lighthouses and all of that.
We kept looking and and we were worried about the price and we couldn't make it match even
with my design.
Now, we don't have to.
Now we don't have to.
We'll be able to use these and everything will just work.
Thanks, Alan.
I know why these are cheap.
They are using the old model.
These are the old model.
They're using all the individual discrete components.
I can't imagine what this would have cost.
I mean like each one of these was probably $5 to fabricate.
So, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
That's an odd number.
By 1, 2, 3, 21, 22, 23, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58.
That's enough to cover all of MAGLabs.
We're good.
So, did Valve just sponsor MAGFest?
No, not all of MAGFest's badges, but they did just sponsor MAGLabs's badges.
So, as long as we have silkscreen on the top.
Yeah.
That's gonna be a lot of work.
But I think wecan arrange that.
Wow.
That one got hosed.
That was weird.
The rest look good, though.