That cabin is a 14-ton spherical steel capsule only two meters in diameter, with a single,half-meter-wide circular plastic window for viewing.

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It's nice to work in one window while viewing content or chatting in another, but since everything feels shrunken on this giant screen, the setup isn't perfect.

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The experience went from one of exploration in the tech demo to one of gimmickry in TF2 -- the game's VR Mode is little more than a new window for viewing the game, and has almost no impact (at least in our demo) on gameplay.

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The service, called Home Premiere and available first in April on DirecTV, will air movies that have opened in theaters as recently as two months previously, which makes them fairly hot commodities under the impenetrable set of viewing-window rules that now dictate when theatrical releases can be seen in the home.

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