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- Hi, I'm Michelle Ehrhardt,

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deputy consumer tech editor for Gizmodo

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and I'm here with breaking
news reporter, Kyle Barr,

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who is also on the scene,

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and we're going to walk through
some of the coolest stuff

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we saw at CES 2023.
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Probably my favorite thing that I saw

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at CES was the new HTC Vive.

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HTC has been like making
these high end VR headsets

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for a while now, but they're
mostly like tethered to PC.

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There's a couple of enterprise
solutions that aren't

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but this is a consumer
facing standalone headset

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that's sort of positioned to compete

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with the Meta Quest Pro.

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And it has this feature that
I really like to it where,

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I'm farsighted, so I've never
had a really great experience

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with VR, you know, having the
lenses right up in my face.

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But what the HTC Vive XR Elite has,

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is it has these adjustable
diopter lenses on the inside

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where you can dial in your prescription

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like anything between
one and six, I think.

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So you can wear the headset
tune to your prescription

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without needing to wear glasses
inside of it or whatever.

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So Kyle, I know you were
wandering the show floors a lot.

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What was some of the coolest
stuff you saw at CES,

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that like genuinely impressed you?

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- So I got to go all the
way out to the south end

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of the strip.

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I got to test out Unistellar's new

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light pollution reduction technology

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from their Equinox two and
their EV Scope two telescopes.

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Vegas is a good testing ground for this

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because it's just full
of lights all the time.

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- More than New York, I'd say.

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- It's definitely just
a huge hotbed of light

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and surrounded by darkness.

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Looking at this technology,

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we got to see the triangle galaxy,

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and as it zooms in on this,

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it tracks the coordinates
automatically based on a catalog

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of thousands of different
celestial bodies.

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It's slowly picked out the galaxy

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and increased the resolution over time,

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building more and more on its own display.

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