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is guys we're hands on with Project Shield this is NVIDIA's new handheld
gaming system based on Android based on the Tegra processing technology and we
are going to Showcase what I think on the internets right now is the biggest
Buzz about this particular little gaming console because we've all got phones at
this point that we carry around we can play games on a touchcreen but where do
you get the integrated uh the integrated controller and where do you get the
ability to stream from a GeForce graphics card powered PC so sorry what
was your name again James James is going to show us how this technology works
with a live demo yes this is a you know as a said already unprecedented use case
no one's done this before we all have really powerful PCS at our homes and our
PC Gamers anyway and we want to be able to play that more than just sitting on
our desk so here you'll be able to connect through this and the picture
will be rendered on your PC and then beamed over as h.264 video onto the uh
NVIDIA Shield handheld so the interface is actually very simple you can see you
just press the mid button here and uh now you can see which PCS you can pair
to here we have Jensen's PC our CEOs thank you for donating that Jensen and
we just connect to it and it says it's connected now you have this very very
simple interface where you can select all of your most favorite PC games
imagine playing Battlefield 3 you know sitting on the couch instead of you know
tied to your computer desk so we can launch for example the Speed Most
Wanted and uh over so can I get you to explain something really quick this
cable coming out of the back of the unit that is not anything to do with the
gaming experience you're having here screen is that correct we're at CS it's
a lot of Wi-Fi noise so we to make sure we have good uh good reception we're
just going with Ethernet right now but we can do this wirelessly at home that's
the intended use case at home you're going to be using a Wi-Fi connection and
so long as you have a pretty good router and uh a pretty up- to- dat graphics
card you know the latency is going to be very good so in terms of ergonomics It's
s I would I would consider it to be sort of a good fit between being able to put
your ring fingers right up under the handle here so that you can easily
manage it with smaller hands I think the intended use is not just the traditional
audience of the hardcore Gamers that NVIDIA is catered to but I would expect kids to be using something like this
this will be so much more powerful that I mean especially someone like I mean
I've got a young kid I'd much rather get him something like this where he can
leverage the power P PC that I already have in my house I already bought it why
am I buying a game console that's not going to take advantage of it right so
you know what you can use it like that but you look at how long these handles are your hands are actually
significantly bigger than my own so I'd like you to just hold it there and show
them how you can adjust your hand backwards on it so that you can easily
reach the controls regardless of the size of your hands the button layout is
pretty simple so for those of you who like the SNES controller you're going to
be able to use it just like that for those of you who like a more modern controller you can use it with the Dual
analog sticks there's the two shoulder buttons up on each side so you've got a
trigger as well as a regular shoulder button and a headphone jack up here
we've got it plugged in using an Ethernet adapter and it looks like that
is is that a power connector as well so this is running off battery this is a
this is a makeshift that bracket would develop just for the Cs show one exists
so straight off there's an SD card slot micro HDMI and audio out so don't worry
guys it's a lot more elegant than that uh these plates on the top are actually
interchangeable so I haven't I have not whoa okay I don't know I broke
it there we go I'm probably going the wrong way at this
point so this green is running at what resolution 720 720p so this is an HD
gaming experience I mean that makes it pretty much close to something like a
retina display the size thre the density
speakers are awesome in fact I can even feel the vibration of the unit itself in
my hands does it have a built-in vibration or is that just the speakers
just the sound that's very very cool so start and back button are integrated
here and of course it is a full touch screen as well viewing angles I want to
get you guys a look at that because you can see looking at the yellow of the car
itself right there I'm just going to turn the volume down just oh there we go
turn the that's veryy intuitive actually see I didn't know how to do this um I
want you to see the yellow of the car as I tilted away from you so if you have a
friend sitting next to you they want to look over your shoulder as is bound to
happen with these kinds of really cool gadgets that other people want to check
out they're going to be able to see it so um have I have we missed anything
critical no I think you've covered it tell me about the battery life battery
life we're looking about 5 to 10 hours of battery life playing a a Android
based game but if you're playing with streaming PC that's going to last even
longer because all you're doing is decoding video on the device uh all the
heavy lifting has been done on the PC and I think I can speak for everyone
when I say this is incredibly exciting but I'm actually even more excited for
something like a Gen 2 gen 3 Gen 5 product where we're going to be looking
at 1080P or even greater display resolutions we're going to be looking at
the ability to I mean this is this is
incredible this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship all right well thank you very
much and a big thanks to NVIDIA for allowing us to get in here and get
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