This is... WEHEAD

[@ShortCircuit]

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[@typerightseesight]

what a sloot.

[@typerightseesight]

seriously tho, imagine looking over a hill at your other spartan and shooting his visor off and seeing linus hissing through the screen. lol

[@RoboWeener]

I can confirm my Vessis are very comfortable AND completely waterproof. 5 stars! Than you Linus.

[@Ryan.Huntley]

you guys need to strap it to the diablo robot if you still have it, and drive it around

[@corwin.macleod]

That's literally 790 from Lexx. It even has phone screens for the face.

[@NaveedHassan1]

Whoever decided to give linus the Wehead, you deserve a raise.

[@falagarius]

That was prolly „Director and Producer“ Linus Sebastian

[@IdentifiantE.S]

@@falagariusHe deserves this 👑

[@Br-Shaft]

​@@falagariusi would put my money on it being Bellavance's ideia first, he really likes to mess up with Linus. But yes, final decision was Linus of course

[@bluegizmo1983]

If it was somebody from Wehead, then yes indeed let's give him a raise! ... and by raise I mean let's raise a glass to them and wish them luck in the future job searches ahead when Wehead goes under for having such crap product! 🤣

[@BbBb-sd2bs]

Whoever decided on the wehead on the other hand...

[@SoggyMicrowaveNugget]

They did it... they made a product that makes everyone wearing a quest pro in a meeting seem less stupid.

[@dirk-stridrogen-monoxide]

Instead of ONE big phone ON your head, it's FOUR small phones shaped INTO a head! And they emulate the phone-isms even more realistically, with their Samsung Galaxy boot screens!

[@RomainDelmaire]

@@GH0STST4RSCR34M He's not comparing it to VR, he's comparing the concept of meeting with VR headset vs the concept of meetings with...whatever that thing's supposed to be.

[@caiocsl]

from now on, you guys MUST use this on WAN show when Linus or Luke need to be remote 😂😂😂

[@ezrarichardson279]

I second this! It needs to happen!

[@giacomorosina7804]

up

[@TheHammerGuy94]

YES!!!

[@claudiobizama5603]

Make it happen

[@graphicsgod]

Aww you beat me to it!! I say they get a second one, and they just use these things lol!!

[@TheOneAndOnlyTed]

I like how most of the parts seem to be thrown together from other products. With the phones, the speaker, and Rode video micro on top, wouldn't be suprised if the motors are out of a Dewalt drill. It feels like a science fair project out of a movie where you know that kid definitely didn't make it.

[@RyTrapp0]

Well I can tell you that no one with a functioning brain is going to get bespoke motors made for something like this, so, yea, the motors are absolutely an off the shelf 'commercial lego'

[@Bobbias]

​​@@RyTrapp0here's a difference between commercial Lego and "we just crammed someone else's product in here". Commercial Lego trends to come Unbranded, or at least less heavily branded than consumer products. This thing is mostly "we just crammed someone else's product in here".

[@randomblock1_]

The motors are probably the most legit thing about this. It's extremely easy to buy unbranded production ready motors, although the same could be said with the speakers... which they obviously didn't make.

[@RyTrapp0]

@@Bobbias An electric motor is a 'commercial lego', regardless of what everything else is

[@RyTrapp0]

@@randomblock1_ It would be so much more work trying to harvest and repurpose what would already be a universal motor anyway lol, at least using someone else's bluetooth speaker saves them a lot of hassle. Even if it's pretty damn janky.

[@MrDoebs]

Put that in Colton's office and just have Linus check-in on him from time to time.

[@BuhLooZeR]

Imagine being told you are fired from the wehead

[@NeptuneCheeseCake]

Can Linus fire people anymore?

[@klashnikov22]

wasn't sure what this remind me of then from your comment I realized it was zordon vibes lol

[@AltonV]

@@NeptuneCheeseCake he is still the owner

[@michaelmonstar4276]

@@AltonV Not the boss.

[@mikibish]

I feel like this didn't need to be 4 "screens" they could've used something like rear projection on a curved surface and have a much better looking product.

[@LucyLavend]

omg rear projection would've been so much better. The quality would be worse, but hey who needs high resolution screens when the person on the other side is using a crappy webcam

[@mikibish]

​@@LucyLavend I know right. The quality wouldn't have to suffer that much either considering the tech available, there's projectors that work well in direct sunlight and I reckon a micro OLED projection would easily cover the size with no noticeable loss in quality.

[@InjectTheWaste]

@@mikibish not to mention would be a hell of a lot cheaper than 4 full fledged phones and the extra mounting required. Not to mention less cables and programming work, its like the over engineered it to be worse so they can bring out a cheaper v2 and be like look how much better it is. I'm guessing the whole thing also runs off one of the phones computing power, which could probably be done better with a simple rasberry pi. I honestly don't understand how this product got this far without realising hey, we could do this for a 10th of the cost and make it literally better in everyway.

[@TobyLegion]

Even JUST 4 Phone screens and a microcomputer to drive them all would be less janky than 4 full screens which need to be turned on individually with an extra pokey. If this is their idea of prototyping I don't want to imagine what kind of absurdist jank is going on behind the scenes.

[@TechyBen]

@@TobyLegion IIRC there are screen drivers for the likes of the raspberry pi zero.

[@benwood3392]

Please use this in a WAN show if Linus or Luke can't make it, or for guest appearances

[@MartinAlejandroLiguori]

OH YES PLEASE!

[@Netro1992]

And never acknowledge it. Just act like there is no creepy mechanical head on the table.

[@jubuttib]

OH FUCKING GOD YES. This absolutely needs to be a thing!

[@ajbp95]

I'm all in!

[@CoolSilver]

In the middle for Dan.

[@BlakeHelms]

I’ve never seen a product that has had so much work with so little to show for it to solve a problem no one has. There were meetings, designs, purchases, software development and at no point did anyone ask “why are we building this?”

[@coherentpanda7115]

I imagine the original concept design wasn't a janky setup full of Samsung phones glued onto a mannequin head. They probably couldn't source the curved screens they were going for, so had to cheap out to get a product out the door for their investors.

[@BrodyAIM]

Using phones instead of a curved screen has to be the worst way to cheap out on something like this, it looks horrible.

[@faustinpippin9208]

"to cheap out on" and its STILL 2K$....

[@BrodyAIM]

@@faustinpippin9208 The Corsair Flex monitor is the same price point and it isn't even because the screen can flex, hell you can get 60hz curved monitors for under 200CAD nowadays. It seems they think the programming aspect is worth the price point but 3 college freshman in game design could make that in a weekend. Really should be about 300 but they want to get their money so they used 4 S10s instead of a curved screen that would cost 8x less.

[@bri1085]

Probably difficult to source proper screens

[@Schnabulation]

Right? I was thinking it can‘t be that difficult to make a curved screen instead of 4 phones…

[@BesWag]

I think it was discussed in a previous LTT vid, but the tighter the radius of a screen, the harder it is to manufacture. Though if you meant something like the concept flexible screens Samsung had that are now implemented in foldable phones then I think it's feasible if not expensive. This "product" feels more realistically like a proof of concept someone wanted to send to LMG to get notoriety for and a free advertisement. To show companies the extreme lengths their implementation of neural networks and accompanying hardware could get to.

[@YODAddyLIVE]

I want to see a conference room full of these things talking to each other.. Better yet put it on a remote set of wheels that can be sent around the office like one of those Telepresence Robot... Oh wait! /rollseyes

[@jdancouga]

We need a LTT video where you put this on the direct drive two wheel robot and have linus-robot-head-on-wheels goes around the company bossing people around.

[@christianholden1037]

This is the way

[@ajbp95]

That's a hilarious idéa!

[@tj71520]

virtual presence unit v2 - the hilariously creepy edition

[@perpetualcollapse]

CSF idea?

[@ElCeceh]

THIS

[@AnubisRubberFox]

First thing that comes to mind is the "1996-2002 Tv Show LEXX" more so the android head.

[@ARRW4]

This NFT, chatGPT metaverse in combination with 4 phones janked together makes it looks like a total comedy clueless investor money sucking device xD

[@kbhasi]

Yep! I'm thinking it was part of some sort of elaborate plan or even a viral marketing campaign.

[@extraterrestrial587]

nft??

[@fadedquill7]

I'm with you, this seems AWFUL. including the what. 3K price tag with it? You could prob muster the same thing up with 4 monster chugging devs and a bitcoin wallet.😂😂😂 I can see the potential, but this is GOD AWFUL... Like, make a flex screen or something, or put a bit more effort into it! When linus said "science project" I had the EXACT reaction when he said there's actually phones in it. 😅😂

[@PTNLemay]

This feels like something that would be really fun in like... Science centers or science museums. Exhibits, stuff like that.

[@benvel3392]

I also enjoy looking like an 90s saturday morning cartoon villain when attending my work meetings.

[@hdpb]

1 step closer to Demolition Man become a reality. I love it

[@BlackHayateMX]

This is the most creepy video conferencing device I've ever seen. I'd buy it just for the LOLs 😹

[@JasperR-s9z]

You're using "LOL" wrong.

[@jayaskme2942]

Man, the 90s called... Demolition man is jealous

[@zerotian5661]

​@@JasperR-s9zno they are not

[@alexbuckenham1663]

You'd drop $2000 for a short-lived novelty? I somehow doubt that.

[@BlackHayateMX]

@@alexbuckenham1663 NAH I'd make my own, I'm an engineer and that looks stupid easy to make. I'd use a single phone and a single rotating base, everything else makes no sense lol

[@24GirlPanda]

"Remote guests naturally". Not sure how this is natural in any way.

[@pixelmaster98]

"remote" fits though, because they're going to look so creepy, you'll be glad they're far away xD

[@Google_Does_Evil_Now]

LEXX! it's the RobotHead called 790, from the superb sci-fi show and movies called LEXX.

[@Google_Does_Evil_Now]

Omg it's so 790! LEXX was great LEXX on KZbin.

[@jono6379]

Hey Linus if you haven't mentioned this to Luke yet you should leave it in his office then remote in to creep him out

[@rmp5s]

Wow...the little conference things from Demolition Man sure turned out differently than I expected...lol

[@teebles]

NGL this was one of the funniest thing I've seen in a while product wise... and I literally just interviewed someone... if I had to deal with a moving head instead of zoom call, I think I wouldn't have been able to continue it.

[@Idiomatick]

How about a conference call and I'm on the other end... in a wehead on a desk!

[@NuminorTheFool]

So we've reached Demolition Man for technology. As they had this for their conference room scene....only it was better executed in Demolition Man somehow XD

[@CynicallySarcasticReserves]

Wow... I anticipated it sucking but God damn, is that an unnecessary product for a nonexistent problem or what xD The only reason why I can't call it a scam is because it physically exists and _sort of_ works. It really is like a science fair project...

[@toseltreps1101]

Still dumb, still jank, still absolutely unnecessary

[@caleballen1330]

The software is really neat! If it's not a scam I'm gonna guess they made the software then threw together the hardware

[@THD1083]

Imagine call centers. At Night you just see these moving heads.

[@JammyBriton]

I'd love to see you try to use it regularlly, like when you try daily driving the odd thing. A week or two of you incoporating this would be hilarious. Perhaps you're only allowed to view the other building as Linus Bot, the team could put you on a pedestal/kart in the middle of a room and you log in at anytime

[@Metal_Maxine]

What if they attached it to the robotic monowheel that dan was reviewing? A remote-presence Linus bot on the move creeping up on people's knees as they work. (edited for making sense)

[@CanIHasThisName]

I think the bigger thing is interacting with the thing, because if you're on the other side, all you really see is the video on a screen.. So it should be from the perspective of the employees who interact with Linus. Also, they should get someone interviewed BY this thing.

[@dividion8102]

Say hello to the new stand-in for the WAN show when one of them can't make it in person...

[@Eli-zb2yj]

Patrick star: To who are you calling a pinhead ?

[@thatoneguy9473]

You know what the next step is, right? Mounting it on an RC car so your head can zoom around on the conference table. Nothing weird or dystopian about a bunch of motorized heads flying around a conference room rather than just having people there in person.

[@Monotof1]

My main problem with it is that it sits way too low! People usually don't have the desk at neck height, so conversing with "it" you are always looking down on the person calling in. As simple as that sounds, i do think that absolutely makes a difference having everyone in the room looking down at you if you are in a discussion. Seeing eye to eye is in many cases very literal.

[@SianaGearz]

In my head "made from biodegradable plastic" equals "3D printed from cheapest basic PLA" Which is BTW sorta not really biodegradable. It will not biodegrade in compost or landfill at a reasonable pace.

[@dauntae24]

The jokes write themselves 😂

[@Beringtom]

I'm getting a need to setup a full room of these, and remake the "demolition man meeting room scene" :D

[@Jahus]

Of course the face featured on the box is "standardized"

[@nope8637]

This is someone's lifes work. This is their passion project

[@rgonzalez1801]

As a kit, this would be pretty fun.

[@Ironpants57]

Yay!! 2k+ for a dev kit

[@FlameSoulis]

I'd actually think it'd be neat to build one of these if it was a kit. Seriously, most of it looks like stuff you could 3D print, slap some servos, some I2C displays... Only part that'd need the help is the software for getting the mapping right.

[@rgonzalez1801]

@@Ironpants57 You supply your own phones, servos, and any of the other bits. You can either buy all the 3D printed parts or print them yourself. Pretty sure it would be way less then 2k+...

[@rgonzalez1801]

@@FlameSoulis Indeed. Also, if you do it yourself, you can dismantle the phones and make this thing way sleeker.

[@Ironpants57]

@@rgonzalez1801 I was only thinking about the product to be honest and not an opensourced kit. Though I would say using screens and connect them up to a single board or mini pc would be better. Keeping one computer upto date is loads easier instead of multiple phones. Someone would have to build it from the ground up though.. The build show cased is super proprietary. Specially the avatar tech. And regardless of the HP bluetooth speaker. The hp bluetooth speaker was kinda funny to me lol. It did fit the theme though.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

This has strong demolition man vibes. There was a room full of such screens

[@BuhLooZeR]

Now I'm just imagining this being used on WAN show for the times lucke isn't there in person... That would be so stupid 🤣

[@pelago_]

Cobbling stuff from best buy together with a motor and a 3d printed robot head… this seems so dystopian but endearing in a DIY way. They need to improve the display though - just a unified, single display in like a helmet visor form factor would be so much better, material-efficient, and it would fit the aesthetic of the chassis better.

[@aeriumfour6096]

"you can do anything from Work From Home(tm) bro trust me" Y'know, they really do seem to be trying to prove the cyberpunk dystopia people right at every turn with every move they make.

[@illusivedestroyer909]

Now I can look like a voltron in a meeting and not get fired

[@publicspeaker4009]

Imagine if that thing was sending a live video to their servers

[@jasonhedtke659]

Please host a full LTT video with this 😂😂 Or better use it whenever Luke or Linus have to virtually do WAN show 😂

[@gutsncapturegaming]

5:25 Linus watching Linus Very Meta

[@antonw.415]

I think this product could be way better with one single curved display that wraps around the "face". Although it would be even more expensive to produce.

[@katech6020]

actually cheaper, since they are using 4 phones now

[@RyTrapp0]

@@katech6020 I really REALLY doubt it - how high end of smartphones do you really think they're using? Smartphones are insanely good value for their hardware; you aren't getting equivalent hardware outside of the phones for anywhere close to the same price. The economies of scale with smartphones is just absurd. No way in hell this gets cheaper with a literally custom curved display, and they probably aren't replacing the phone's camera with anything close to equivalent for the dollar.

[@ilovefunnyamv2nd]

@@RyTrapp0 Samsung Galaxy S 10 Plus

[@the_undead]

​@@RyTrapp0seeing as you can get a curved monitor for $200, and each of those phones cost about $200, I would imagine it's probably cheaper to use a curved display

[@RyTrapp0]

@@the_undead If we had curved screen tech that could bend tight enough to replace all of the screens on this with one, and it was financially viable, we would see them everywhere(it'll be a fad at minimum when we reach that point lol).

[@jamesshelton308]

Oh god, just imagine a conference room with no humans. Just these damn robot heads talking to eachother. THAT'S a dystopian vision lol

[@Mellie036]

Everybody in the world occasionally has an idea only they think is great. Luckily most of us don't have the means to make something out of those ideas. Unfortunately some people do...

[@Mattoulious]

imagine that idea but a mini projector, projecting onto the inside surface of a head shape made of thin white fabric or paper. with the right electronic de-warping applied it would look amazing. the dewarping should be spot on too because the 3d map of the inside of the head shape from the point of the projecter would never change.

[@GRAS_gadgetsRepairAISimulators]

Nice to know that the retro PC light in tbe background is a prototype LTT store product

[@PhobosGekko]

This is straight out of the 90s movie, Demolition Man, with the seashells.

[@oOSpecialProskillsOo]

i can totally see something like this in big corporate boardrooms

[@bojoggs-ik8tq]

Yeah like, this is actually a telepresence product, sure it's rough around the edges, but like this plus a VR headset as an integrated system with tracked movement could be a legit thing.

[@Clawthorne]

For the love of god please use this for your next WAN Show. Just on a tripod or something hovering ominously with one of you remoting in.

[@verify6329]

I feel like the concept has potential, in a 10 years down the line way

[@johnhicks8626]

Futurama approved. Looks like new buddy/enemy for Bender.

[@RiceChrispy0527]

I think they should make the next one with a spherical display with just a hole at the top for the cameras to stick out of. Then the person's face can orbit around the display according to who they are talking to. Id encourage them to just work with the existing video calling/conferencing platforms to add support for the device, that way if a user is calling into one, they have controls to be able to shift focus of who they're see on screen.

[@pedro4205]

If you search, this is a decoy company from Apple trying to make the Apple Vision look reasonable

[@HairyDalek]

This reminds me so much of the 790, the Robot Head, from the TV series Lexx.

[@AnIrishPapaya]

I would love to see pranks done by leaving this in people's offices

[@mahidgondal6501]

this should be put on a robot that gets driven around the office and Linus can just check in on everyone with it... or even to give subscribers a realistic remote virtual tour of the studio

[@phobosmoon4643]

i kinda want one i feel like it could bee a good robotic component lmao. Throw it on some kind of chassis and u are halfway there..

[@invaderjon4691]

That looks like one of the robots from RoboCop 2 that failed the trial phase and ended his existence

[@faristhehonest]

I saw this in a convention sometime last year it was creepy and amazing 😂

[@TheObscurePoet]

Images of "Demolition Man" invade my mind.

[@MasterRainer251]

We love linus head!!!

[@christophernugent8492]

Linus on the WeHead looks like one of the Time Lord cards from Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds.

[@timd7709]

interesting idea.. i can see it as a real product once it matures and gets cheaper and better... but soooo many things need to happen first

[@natewesselink]

It looks like someone just chopped off chappie's head and stuck it on a base

[@tradingelk6914]

This is the dumbest thing ever, but it's also brilliant. Companies have no issue spending thousands of dollars on absolute bullshit, and this is like the most perfect product for that lol

[@mspencerl87]

Let's play find the holes. My teenage years summed up in one sentence

[@dlhorne42]

Really surprised Linus didn't do a "that's what she said" there... 😂

[@RebrandSoon0000]

This is a dumb overly expensive toy. Cameras can do the same thing for less, like mine was $75.

[@Raccoonov]

but cameras are less personal

[@RebrandSoon0000]

@@Raccoonov You know whats personal? PEOPLE, not goddamn stupid toys. PEOPLE need to be around PEOPLE, not cameras!

[@Raccoonov]

@@RebrandSoon0000 that’s true, people are more personal, but you were suggesting cameras

[@TDSP9981]

Holyshit, that thing was made by someone who watched Lexx and thought 790 was a thing to make in real life

[@ryancooper3629]

Do I smell the "wehead" challenge where Linus has to use this thing for all video conferencing for a month?

[@mellertid]

Ah, next level you just tell your AI to cover for you and keep sleeping.

[@therealandycook]

This would be much better then remote guests joining board room meetings via regular telepresence. Especially with full articulation. But it needs to be very very simple for both the meeting holder and the remote guests to manage.

[@garethsnaim8174]

F**k me, Megatron on my table making sure I am working.

[@SillySnowFox]

Is anyone else getting major Lexx vibes off this thing? (Specifically the disembodied robot head that's in love with the captain?)

[@ruashua]

I mean.... the thing is kinda neat, and the implimentation is almost.... McGyver-y clever, I'll give them that.

[@948320z]

As many have already stated... it MUST be used in a WAN show. Do it lol

[@GrimOfDonuts]

I will make a conference room with just these, and everyone from around the world will go into it for conference meeting. BUT, each one will be on a roomba.

[@alexenochss]

yeah this thing totally needs to be mounted to a chair/ground supported mannequin and dressed to the max in ltt merch not even just for a remote linus or luke but for like remote guests on the show and stuff

[@Zayfod]

Does anyone remember the robot head from Lexx? Because I'm getting STRONG 'robot head from Lexx' vibes from this thing.

[@MinatoGzenx]

It amuses me that they promote it as "in real MEETING SPACE" as in "meatspace".

[@joeymatthews1234]

@linus's comment about waterproofing in the summer: down south where snow isn't really an issue, we get most of our precipitation during spring and summer rainstorms in which case, waterproof shoes are pretty nice when dealing with puddles everywhere.

[@13Omood]

OMG PLEASE DO A WAN SHOW WITH THIS

[@nicholasvanbussel]

This reminds me of Demolition Man. The future has arrived!

[@GlorifiedGremlin]

This better be used for Luke when hes not able to do WAN show in person 😂

[@magrudergrinder23]

Man this thing makes Jibo look state-of-the-art.

[@SilverLuna07]

As an office person I can totally see this being used IRL, but maybe with just either 3 portrait oriented screens side by side or 1 curved convex screen in landscape orientation. The software's already there and it would probably take the cost down considerably.

[@EspyMelly]

The fact this is made out of a bunch of phones is absolutely hilarious.

[@CallardAndBowser]

They should have used the Disney Haunted Mansion Madame Leto rear projection technology for this thing.

[@costafilh0]

They need to use this as a head for the BN Spot robot dog! Let the apocalipse begin already!

[@TheNewton]

This was a rollercoaster of annoyance, skepticism, enthusiasm ,excitement, and no idea what the final review would be.

[@sushimshah2896]

I'd say the 5x S10es alone would be worth $750-1000

[@redseafrog]

I can see the film industry prop masters/artists using this for a sci-fi robot movie/tv show. I would defiantly watch such a show.

[@maybe6536]

Using phones instead of curved screens just makes it look like a science fair/final school project

[@PanoptesDreams]

I love it. The future of yesterday is tomorrow. It needs heavy refinement, but having a moving head camera chat bot thing, is really neat.

[@Channeldyhb]

Please please please use this on a win show next time one of you can't be there in person

[@MMOchAForPrez]

When they start having Weheads talking to each other for their meetings, we'll know we've come full circle

[@vbun4662]

This can't be a serious attempt at a product, but I gotta give props to the idea because it's pretty funny. Maybe a serious version of this idea would be fun when your one out of town friend can't make it to boardgame night.