HTC Vive Cosmos hands on Review and Analysis

Hello and welcome to my HTC Vive

Cosmos review. So this is my HTC Vive

VR headset. I got it for £500. It costs

£750 brand new, but I managed to get it

refurbished for only £500, so I think I

got a pretty good deal. And as you can

see, it is blue and it has lots of cameras

on it. 1, 2, 3, 4,

5, 6 cameras on the outside.

And this is the inside of the headset.

There's a sensor here which I think is

for detecting whether you're wearing it or

not, and there's a button in here. I'm not

sure what that does. And then we have

these 2 controllers. This one is for your

right hand, and then this one's for your

left hand. So when you're holding the

controller, it kind of looks like this.

Feels quite nice in the hand, very

comfortable. You've got 2 triggers on the

reverse side of the controller, and then

you also have this middle finger button

that you operate using your middle finger.

And then you've got this thumbstick that

moves in all directions, and then you have

2 buttons here and one here which switches

it on. And then for the right-hand side,

it's pretty much exactly the same but

flipped around. I wanted to show you what

it looks like when you have the VR headset

on, but you can't really see anything.

And there's a button here. If you press

it, then it uses the cameras so you

can see without taking the headset off.

It's quite nice actually. And you also

have these headphones built into the

headset, so you can move these around and

they go directly over your ears so you can

hear the sounds from the game. But I don't

use them because I prefer using my

speakers. And you also have this little

knob here that you can fiddle, and this,

um, it changes the focus. You know that

distance between your eyes? Well, some

people have eyes that are wider apart, so

use this to adjust to your eyes.

It doesn't really feel that heavy when

you're wearing it for long periods of

time. It feels fairly comfortable. You

have this strap goes over your head,

and then you tighten this knob thing to

make it tighter or looser.

So after a few weeks of using the VR

headset and doing some VR gaming, I

thought I'd make a video talking about

what I think about it and whether I would

recommend it. So first of all, I just want

to say that I would recommend it, and I do

think VR gaming is fun. But after buying

this, I started to watch some reviews,

and apparently this is the worst headset

you can get when it comes to hand

tracking. And hand tracking is when the VR

headset uses these cameras on the outside

to track where the controller is. And

apparently this headset is pretty bad for

tracking. And yes, sometimes it does lose

tracking and then it doesn't know where

the controllers are, but most of the time

if you're in a well-lit room, it's not

really a problem. Sometimes it'll say the

room is too bright. For example, if it's a

really sunny day, I have to get this towel

And then I hang it up in front of the

curtains to get rid of some of the intense

shining sunlight that's coming in because

my curtains aren't thick enough. And I

need to have all the curtains closed,

otherwise it will say room is too bright,

please adjust lighting. And then sometimes

it says the room is too dark, and then I

have to turn on all of my extra lights.

Here and here, and then up there as well.

So it can be a little bit frustrating

getting the perfect lighting conditions in

your room so it tracks the controllers

properly. My other complaint

is if you're going to be doing a lot of VR

gaming, you really need to buy a lot of

these batteries because it uses AA

batteries and the batteries run out of

power after about 4 or 5 days maybe.

So I had to buy this big box of batteries.

I got this box of 48 batteries off Amazon,

and it's just kind of annoying. Why didn't

they use a lithium-ion rechargeable

battery in these so I can just plug them

in to a charger before I go to sleep?

Instead, they make you use these stupid

old-fashioned AA batteries, and they only

last about a week. So if you're planning

on doing a lot of VR gaming, you're going

to have to stock up on batteries or get

those rechargeable AA batteries. So if

you're thinking about getting into VR

gaming, you're going to have to prepare to

spend a lot of money on batteries. And I

also don't like wearing this headset

because it messes up my hair really badly

when I wear this for hours and hours.

Ends up making my hair look weird, and

then I get this big red patch on my

forehead. So far, I don't really

feel like I regret buying the HTC Vive

Cosmos, but if I could go back in time, I

think I'd rather get the Oculus Quest

because people say it's better and it's

also wireless. I'm making a video.

Okay, don't interrupt.

I said don't interrupt. I dropped my

tablet.

Wow, go away! I can't even make a video

these days. So if I had to go back in time

and get a new VR headset, I think I'd

rather have the Oculus Quest because you

don't have to connect it to a computer and

there's no wires. Oh yeah, I was going to

show you how irritating the wire on the

back of the Vive Cosmos is. It's not even

tangled up, but it won't straighten out

because it keeps coiling up.

I want to try and get the Oculus Quest and

see what it's like. I'm not sure if it's

better than what I have now. I guess it'll

be slower since it's not connected to a

computer, and I guess the graphics won't

be as good. Why is the pond brown? Look!

Look, it's brown! What the hell?

That's so weird. Usually it's kind

of, you know, watercolored. It's not

usually brown. Oh, and there's green—

lumps of green stuff floating on the top.

That's disgusting. Um, what was I saying?

Yeah, if I could get my hands on Oculus

Quest, that'd be great, but because of the

stupid you-know-what Um,

interfering with everything. It's hard to

get anything off Amazon now because

everything's out of stock, especially VR

headsets for some reason. You wouldn't

have thought that there would be a great

demand for VR headsets during this crisis.

That's why I had to get the HTC Vive

Cosmos, because that was the only one

where they had stock and I got it for a

good price refurbished. My other choice

was to get that Pimax 5K

something, but that was way more expensive

and it looks kind of stupid. I don't

really know what else to say about the VR

headset. I guess it's pretty good. I

didn't think VR gaming would be so much

fun. I thought it would just be kind of

gimmicky, but it is pretty fun. I guess I

could tell you what games I have. I have

Beat Saber. That's quite fun, but I got

bored with it. It's only fun when you play

songs that you actually like, and there's

not many songs that I like that are

available on it. Had to get some kind of

mod that lets you download custom maps,

but even then they don't have a lot of the

songs that I do like. And then a lot of

the songs they do have only have expert

mode, which is too hard for me. So I have

Beat Saber that I'm bored with now. I have

Pistol Whip. I also got bored of that

because it's kind of easy. There's this

trick where you just basically roll around

on the floor like a— like an idiot,

and you jump up and down, and that way

you're pretty much invincible because then

the enemies can't hit you. And I managed

to beat nearly every level on the hardest

difficulty mode just by rolling around on

my bed. I also have Half-Life: Alyx,

which is okay, I guess. It's just pretty

bog-standard FPS shooter. The only reason

why everyone's raving about it is because

it's VR, but after a while the whole VR

gimmick wears off and you realize it's

just a pretty standard FPS

shooting game that isn't really very

special. It was fun in the beginning

picking up objects and smashing stuff and

reloading the gun, but after a while it,

it wears off and then you realize it's not

really anything special. And I also have

Fruit Ninja. It's okay, I guess. It's not,

it's not that great actually. And I have

Blade and Sorcery, which is my favorite

game currently. And it's my favorite game

because you basically just fight

people with swords and axes,

and you can chop them up, and you can mess

around with their bodies, and you can lift

up their legs, make them do weird stuff.

And you can slap them in the face, punch

them around, and do

violent things to them, which I enjoy.

There's a few other games I want to try.

I want to try that Boneworks game, and I

want to try that Walking Dead game,

but I think I'll wait a

while before I buy any more games because

I already bought a lot of games recently.

Spending a lot of money, too much money.

And I'm finding it difficult to make

videos for this channel. It's supposed to

be a cooking channel, but I don't really

do any cooking anymore because my mum is

constantly cooking since she doesn't go to

work anymore. She just cooks loads of

food, and then we have to keep eating all

the food, otherwise there's too, too much

of it left over. And I don't really get

any chance to just sit down and have a

nice chat by myself like I used to because

I keep getting interrupted and I feel

silly talking to myself inside of the

house when people can hear me. And I don't

really need to cook anymore because

there's always food lying around, so I

don't really know what to do with this

channel. I might get some VR cooking

games, try out some of those,

but then after that, what do I do? Not

sure, might have to rebrand this channel

into just talking about random things.

Look at this pond, so brown.

There's loads of little lizards in there

as well. I think they're newts. Do you

think they can survive in this? There were

like 50 of them just swimming around.

They look like fish but they have legs.

It's weird. I'm not sure why it's so

brown. I would love it if someone knew and

commented telling me why.

Interesting. I uploaded

a video on my main channel, an illustrated

one about people I hate, and I was pleased

with how it came out. I felt, I felt happy

with the drawings, but I feel kind of

disappointed with the amount of views it

got. For some reason, my illustrated

videos always get the worst views.

No, my tech videos always get the worst

views, and then— whoa, that was a massive

bee, just flew in front of me.

My tech videos get the worst views, and

then my illustrated videos get slightly

better views, and then it's always the

drama and cheating and girl videos that

get the most views. It's just kind of

disappointing because Because I want to do

other things like illustrated videos,

and I want to show off my artwork, show

people what my drawings are like. And I

feel like people don't really care. Most

people don't care about my illustrated

stuff, and it's just kind of demoralizing

when you spend days and days and days and

you put hard work and effort into making

the video look good coming up with the

ideas for the drawings, and then majority

of people subscribe to you don't even

care. It makes you feel like, well, if

they don't care, then why should I care?

I'll just give you some low-effort crap

like walking around my garden talking

about some random girl I cheated on since

that's what most of you guys seem to want

to see. It's just hard not to feel bitter

and irritated when you

feel like People aren't interested in what

you want to make, and then instead they're

interested in things that make people hate

you instead. I don't know if that makes

sense. Well, I guess that's what it's like

since people aren't subscribed to me for

illustrated storytimes and

they're subscribed to me for low-effort

drama videos, I guess. I think I'll

do maybe one illustrated video a month.

I'll pace it out.

If I did 4 illustration videos in a row,

then the channel would just die, wouldn't

it? If you look at the views. I have some

other ideas for illustration videos. I

think I'll do another one maybe in a few

weeks' time. I just need to recover from

the last video that did fairly poorly.

Well, it did around the same as the Why I

Hated Living in South Korea video, and

that video now has about 27k views, which

is is pretty good actually. Maybe it'll

just take some time, maybe I just need to

be patient with these illustrated

things. Maybe after a few weeks it will

get, get a decent amount of views,

same amount as I usually get. I just feel

very impatient when I put out a video, I

just want everyone to see it straight away

instead of having to wait weeks and weeks

and weeks until people finally see it.

Well, I guess that's what being a YouTuber

is like. Have to be patient.

I miss the days when I could just upload

anything and I'd get 40k views straight

away. These days I actually have to try

and think of a title that would make

people want to click on it to even get

20k+. I feel like this whole YouTube thing

is getting harder and harder.

And I'm not sure what to

do in the future. Well, anyway, I hope you

enjoyed this review of the HTC Vive

Cosmos. I would recommend it, but if I

could go back in time, I would not get it.

And I think I'd rather have the Oculus

Quest because having the wire attached to

the back of your head is really annoying

when you're trying to spin around and move

about because you trip up on it and it

gets in the way. And it limits where you

can play the game. If I want to move the

whole setup, I have to relocate my entire

computer to a different room. So if I had

the Oculus Quest, it'd be so nice just to

be able to play anywhere. I could play in

the garden, actually. Could I?

Can you play the Oculus Quest outside?

That'd be amazing, just being able to play

in the garden. One of the most frustrating

things is having to play in my bedroom,

which is kind of small, and stuff like the

desk and my bed gets in the way, and you

have to watch out not to accidentally

punch the wall or knock things over. If

you had a big play area, that'd be so,

so nice. I'm pretty sure it should work

outside. I don't know, actually. It might

say play area is too bright.

That's one of the main problems.

The room has to be not too bright and not

too dark, so I'm pretty sure this would be

too bright for the cameras to detect where

the controllers are. I don't understand

why being too bright is a problem. You'd

think being too bright would be a good

thing because then it helps the cameras

track the controllers more easily.

Oh well. I also heard the Oculus Quest has

this new new feature coming out called

hand tracking where you don't actually

need to have a controller and you just use

your hands and somehow it tracks each

finger. That sounds interesting as well.

Yeah, lots of things sound interesting,

but I can't get any of it because

everything's out of bloody stock on

Amazon. Stupid Amazon.