show time again welcome to the show where we talk Tech and uh usually there
are two of us but today as you can see I am on my own Luke's not even here to
enjoy the brand new now not only
including his Twitter handle lower third
but also alignment on the logo fix lower
third I'll just have to appreciate that all by myself so it's been quite the
eventful week both here at l Media Group
and you know outside of lus Media Group
uh we were making some pretty significant progress on our upcoming
headquarters we had a lot of people tell us that hey yeah the sound on that uh
chair racing Channel Super Fun video was not super fantastic and oh shoot I just
realized my title is wrong this should be the W
show um weekly Tech and and gaming talk
Fridays at 16:30 boom that is updated so a lot of
people said the the sound was not not very exceptional but we have actually
made significant progress on that since then and uh it's
been expensive but
uh yeah it's been it's been expensive
but uh we're we're still you know we're Trucking on and we're really really
excited about uh about what there is to
bunch of people are apparently complaining about the lower third too bad we are sticking with the lower third
exactly the way it is you want to know why because I like it and it's lonus
Media Group where if I want it changed I
have to pay someone to do it and that's expensive so that is exactly why we are
leaving that um I've got uh oh right
I've got our topics for the day so tons
of stuff it was hard to pick out what is coolest this week but I think valve
Steam Machines finally coming also what
appears to be the mostly we hope final
version of the steam controller uh details being out there is pretty darn
exciting uh oh actually I didn't talk about this when I did my show
announcement a minute ago to upload to Youtube but uh valve also has that VR
headset that they've collaborated with HTC on that looks really exciting
they've got a new technology called Lighthouse that we'll talk a little bit
more about later um also this week at GDC NVIDIA launched the shield again
this time it's a completely different device and that old one has been renamed
and You' think they could just come up with another word anyway we we'll talk
about the shield TV console thing um the
Titan X NVIDIA's new flagship graphics card details are kind of all over the
place now and uh oh apparently Luke is ready to call in so maybe what I'll do
is I'll tease one more topic that's AMD's free sync is being officially
launched very very exciting to people like me who super duper believe in this
whole variable refresh rate thing um and then I'll go ahead I'll roll the intro
and I'll get Luke kind of coming on the show here welcome to the W
show
this is interesting okay I think I have my uh I
think I have my call- in settings right but I'm gonna hopefully no no he's not
muted hey are you there hello I don't
have a video feed for you
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got to turn you down as well you're probably blowing everyone's ear ears out
because of for whatever reason it's by default very
big all right add screen region and this
is so weird because you are like you are
not you are not a show guest you are you
actually you live on this show and so having you call in as a guest is
actually like tripping me out pretty
hardcore right now all right let me just I feel like I should introduce myself I
know it's bizarre so today we've got Luke lafrenier he's from publication
called Li Tech tips you may or may not it I don't know why he hangs out with
those guys he should really find some like cooler kids to hang out with hold
on I'm trying to I'm trying to get you all like aligned nicely with the bottom thing here so you get your us actually
you got a little more than half the screen but I think it kind of works because I'm smaller than you all right
so you missed the you missed the the intro Malian part but that's okay we
have a new lower third I don't know if you noticed that I I I'm still like I
told you I'm ready but I'm super not so like I'm still opening everything I
haven't even seen the actual twitch stream yet um but I I heard that we had
a new lower third I just haven't seen it apparently you're still too loud I'm
going to turn you down some more is that is that better guys try again hello
testing two 34 oh for crying out loud okay how's that try again I'm talking
about things that happened at P although I'm not sure if that's what I'm talking
about because tons of other things happened yep should be good all right so
I've got someone complaining about the one pixel line I have you misaligned by
one pixel at the top and I'm going to leave it cuz that's how it R um okay so
why don't we uh do you want to just give me sort of a rough what's the vibe
what's the vibe at PX how's it going um a lot of the vibe is that everyone
actually kind of wanted to be at GDC oh um yeah so with back when I was
like hey we should maybe check this out and then decided that it wasn't that
important that was apparently the wrong the wrong uh idea cuz like everything
happened at GDC GDC was bananas this
year yes and usually it's not really usually it's super developer heavy and
all that kind of stuff but like tons of Hardware stuff went down go figure like
that that's crazy to me I mean what what when has a graphics card ever launched
at GDC never yeah and like okay good I
had no idea because I was traveling that day so today I'm walking around the
floor and like I've heard rumors about it but I haven't I didn't know it
actually launched so multiple people are coming up to me like oh like what do you
think about it like uh are you have you secretly tested it yet and I'm sitting
there being like I have no idea what's happening I had no idea it was announced
or launched I'm I'm thinking that people are just going off of rumors so I'm
telling everyone no and everyone thinks I'm lying that's awesome like Oh no
you're under NDA whatever you've been testing this forever and I'm like no I
actually have no idea I literally know less about this than you do so I will
tell you that uh I know I know why
everyone thinks we're lying Tech gauge has like pictures of their card up
already oh my goodness here I'll I'll screen I'll screen share uh Tech gauge
up close look at GeForce GTX Titan x uh
hold on let me just make sure yep my my screen share is working I uninstalled
that creative control panel and it seems to be fine now oh nice so there it is it
comes comes in a box box uh looks like a graphics card um looks like it's using
the same cool they're just going to keep making more and more of the card Black
until until it's completely like next comes the io Shield I guess that'll be
the Titan x black edition yeah it'll be
completely black and then they're going to release the White Edition or
something yeah yeah or or or or or or or something and they'll just keep they'll
keep adding more black and like more green LEDs until we're suitably
impressed um so yeah the card has posed
on camera um I got a I got a message I got an email uh right before the show
where I asked is ours in the mail and I got a I got a confirmation so cool cool
no briefing no
driver cards in the mail just no nothing
yeah oh wow I see the lower third now that looks really sharp don't ask us if
we got time you know not none of that just put it in the mail we'll deal with
it y we don't have time like legitimately not at all I know that's
the best part of all of this I think that's a holiday while you're gone as if
that's going to be actually a holiday for me yeah you know what though I I filmed
four videos yesterday wow four and I
plan to do something similar on Monday I'm going to be prepping a lot of stuff
on on the weekend so I'm still gonna I'm still going to do my best to uh to to
get you guys actually maybe we should take this opportunity to uh to tell the
audience uh kind of what what's going on with why we need to be filming four
videos a day and stuff like that right now so um if you guys have heard of a
video platform called vessel um the first thing I need to say is don't sign
up for it because we don't have a referral link yet so wait for that yeah
so wait for that um but basically the
way vessel works is it's going to have um the same well in theory this is what
they're trying to do it's going to have the same creators as other online
platforms like YouTube and even some you know more traditional celebrities except
it'll offer Early Access and it's a subscription based service and then the
idea is that for the create what's in it for the creators is that people watching
on vessel come in at a at it's kind of like I think the best analogy is the one
that they gave us and it's like well think about this when you go watch a movie at the theater to go watch with
two people it's like you know 30 bucks plus popcorn plus whatever so that
that's that's if you want to see it like at the earliest possible opportunity
with the best possible experience then it's a lot more expensive and if you're
willing to wait a lot longer eventually you can see it on TV subsidized by ads
and that's that experience so vessel
will be it'll have things a little bit earlier but basically it's the same
content and everything that we release is still going to go to YouTube as well
so and there there will still be uh if you just ignore a vessel there will
actually be no noticeable CU we're always going to be uploading one video a
day to YouTube there will never be a gap there will never be a difference there
so if you're just like nope going to ignore it there will be no change
everything will be totally fine all the burden is on us to get a full week ahead
on content yeah before we go ahead and launch with uh with this platform so
we're still in talks with them nothing is signed nothing is confirmed but it
looks like we are it looks like we are probably uh we are probably we are
probably interested um saying no don't
do it there's literally no change on the YouTube side yep there will be no
difference at all you will get all good you will get every video in your inbox
every day yeah and there will never be a gap you will always be getting a video a
day uh WAN Show will always be archived
on YouTube the the like day at right
after it's live essentially yep um all all show coverage will be uploaded right
when it's supposed to yeah there will be
no noticeable difference that's fine people are acting like they have to
subscribe to vessel you do not have to subscribe to at all um if you choose to
then great if you don't then then don't
that's fine too so got people asking will the videos be the same uh yes they
will be the they will have the same content it'll be about the same stuff it
will literally be uploaded to YouTube
after so I guess that is that's pretty
much it for that let's go ahead and move into our first topic shall we do you
have the dock open and everything I do but I've had zero minutes to look at
this at all awesome okay well there's uh there's a quick one that I can that I
can cover for you while you uh while you go ahead and get caught up a little bit
here sure let's go ahead and uh post
this in the twitch chat okay Bippity oh oh it always signs
me out I just want to post a message in the
twitch chat I should be able to do that anonymously I I can still do that from
here can you are you trying to do the politicians one yeah all right I got it
you got it you posted it already all right I will in like a second basically
uh now to be clear the oh camera is not
available you have you have got to be kidding me this is this is driving me
crazy I thought I had this screen capture thing worked out now where it
was just it was just going to work every time from now on from now until the end
of time never and it looks like I do not
get to have that particular exper we are
back I at least very much hope so I'm really sorry about that guys when I
refresh a video input device um if I do
it with a black magic device uh usually the computer blue screens so the fact
that it only froze the application that
time is actually an improv progress yeah um so what I was actually trying to
refresh was my screen so I could bring
up this RS Technica AR here we go boom okay now I think that um
I think that sort of it's a little bit sensationalist uh Republicans internet
Freedom Act would wipe out net neutrality this is not something that
the entire Republican party is behind at
all I believe it's about
36 30 31 not even a majority so 30 32 32
Republicans behind this it's um uh it's
Marsh is that percent or amount of people people okay so I have no idea so
basically uh Mara Blackburn is filing the internet Freedom a legislation she
calls the internet Freedom Act to be clear that does not mean this is being
signed into law but it's basically
throwing out pretty much everything the FCC is trying to do um ARS goes ahead
and brings up that in the latest election cycle Blackburn received
$25,000 from an AT&T political
like it's it's it's pretty bad um and so
I again so I don't know if I'm more upset that that she's bought or if I'm
more upset that it only costs $80,000 every you know four years or every
election cycle to uh to be that
completely in someone's pocket h i mean
it's kind of gross that is
sad so yeah see like seeing stuff like
this before House of Cards this is going to sound kind of weird before host of
cards I was always like wow like that's so crazy that this stuff could happen
and like I know it's just a show but now that I watch host of cards I'm like H
every single one of them is bought by
someone I wonder who it is I think I have you too loud again let me turn that
down there we go all right hopefully everything is totally awesome this time
and I'm not going to accidentally refresh the intensity Pro again so we
have more news on AMD resync uh do you
want to go ahead and throw the uh the official AMD page I guess or something
do the I always do the line of Link oh sure okay well this was posted by
Spiderman 64 and the last one is from Victoria Secret but basically in summary
there's not actually a whole lot of new news here free sync works exactly the
way we thought it did um so variable refresh rate gaming that's a good thing
by the way it works anywhere from uh 30 to 44 FPS ymd uses cookies that's nice
don't care um this page is not letting me scroll
for some reason I am not having a good
day today no at all actually the rest of
the day has gone pretty well so far there we go there's your where where'
that scroll bar go okay page up page down is my only
choice it's my only choice you could do
it I believe in you guys anywhere from 30 to 144 htz it can refresh it and you
gr tips you got to have a AMD GPU that supports it and a supported driver and a
and and a DisplayPort 1.2a display that
supports the optional adaptive sync spec
so in a nutshell it's exactly what we thought it's officially launching um so
there you go that's pretty much all I really have to say about that uh this
one's cool though valve has given us a date this was posted by Victoria Secret
for the official Steam Machines launch
uh also Source two with Vulcan support
is being announced so Steam Machines uh will include sort of the the remember
guys valve originally did like that steam machine concept thing where they
shipped out steam machines to a bunch of lucky people they're not doing their own
steam machine steam machine is just a computer from some someone like iby
power or Alienware that comes with Steam
OS installed on it or stay tuned for a video on
zotex yeah oh did you film that today I
did awesome so that is that is filmed and will be uploaded probably in the
first wave and yeah it's launching in November it actually looks super good
I'm not going to get too into it so that people actually watch the video but it
aesthetically looks really good and they're bundling a lot of the steam machines that come out around that time
with the steam controller which was also announced in its final form at GDC as
well yeah so uh let me see if I can actually I'm going to see if I can find
some picks of the uh the final steam controller uh GDC 20 2015 I'll just try
to find someone's article so they've made a lot of changes since the original
steam controller actually here I'll finish up talking about Steam Machines
first so to be clear they're just PCS
they're just computers they plug into your your TV or realistically you could
plug one into your monitor if you felt like it um they range in price from
around console price points to you know $4,000 $5,000 depending on how balls to
the wall you want to go with because they're just a computer because they're
just a computer um it'll launch alongside both the steam controller that
Luke just mentioned and steam link which
is actually kind of the the the the like
the the actual piece the biggest piece of news in my mind to be perfectly
honest steam link see you have been disconnected steam link is really cool
it's going to be 50 bucks apparently or I think I don't know if they actually
said 50 bucks I think they said priced the same as the controller which is 50
bucks so okay so I don't know maybe it ends up being 60 or like who knows uh
but it's yeah it's going to be around that $50 price point it supports 1080p
60 htz streaming and then basically it's
just a dedicated box for steam in home streaming so you can play games PP 60
yes so better than the doco I was just going to say oh oh
doco cheaper it's cheaper than the doku
doo thing and it's better yeah so doco 2 or doco Plus or
whatever it is that they've got planned is now officially dead um and it will it
won't just support game streaming it'll also support streaming your your desktop
from uh from another location so if you have so I mean we're all the parts of
the ecosystem are coming together the thing that was missing was a super
Cheapo chomecast level steam in home
streaming thing people have I think people have played around with it on the Raspberry Pi I don't think the
experience was that great I I haven't seen anything about Pi 2 uh but this at
50 bucks with an Ethernet port in a couple USB ports for controllers or
mouse and keyboard or whatever else and then HDMI looks like pretty much the
bee's knees awesome yeah at 50 bucks
that's awesome yeah that is exactly yeah
um so like to me that kills all but the
highest end uh TV attached devices that
are designed to stream from computers and I'll talk I'll talk more about
NVIDIA Shield soon because that still kind of has a place and there's a
discussion to be had there but would you buy a steam machine at this
point no uh I probably wasn't going to
buy a steam machine anyways because I want to make a mineral oil home theater
PC but now I don't know how applicable that is because this steam link thing
actually sounds awesome and like one really cool thing I I've been doing some
amount of research on receivers lately not a huge amount but a little bit um
and the second that you get to anything
that's going to be better than something that I could just buy from like a thrift
store or a secondhand store because receivers haven't really gotten that
much crazy better um as far as I can
tell is is stuff like networking mhm so
if I can just have one of these hooked up to my receiver and just Bluetooth to
that through my phone then I can just control the songs and stuff through
there and just use power amp on my phone pull it off my Nas because I now have a
connected thing like I don't know that's awesome yeah I uh like I am still one of
those people who has a media center PC but even I am looking at some of these
Solutions and kind of going well shoot am I ever actually sitting in front of
my computer upstairs while I sit on my couch um there's still a place like
people who want to run games at 4k on their 4K TV uh are not going to be
served by a device like this but I'm going to go ahead I'm going to I'm going
to like I'm going to say it high
contrast is way more important than 4K a
quality display from the kind of distance that I sit from my TV a quality
display is way more important than 4K 4K
has not tempted me to upgrade to it personally it's the kind of thing I love
to drool over and like walking around at CES with like 4K curved this and 4K OLED
that and like 4K up your butt whatever all the 4K is like exciting and sweet
and and like I geek out over that stuff but I'm not going to pay for it yet yeah
one thing I have to worry about with this is uh any input
latency so I H blah blah blah forget
what they were I forget what it is exactly but if it's anything like steam
in home streaming okay if you're like competitive CSG go dude like you or Ed
or whatever else no man but I'm I'm just
saying I'm just saying like uh like yeah like you're right like obviously like
playing Civ or whatever would be great on this uh Civ or XCOM anything that's
like turn based or whatever will be fine but how many games will be an issue I I
want to get my hands on it essentially and try like it it's it sounds really
compelling but I'm not sure if it's going to replace home theater PCs For Everyone is essentially what I'm trying
to say I you could do it for a lot of people like my dad would now be able to
ditch the home theater PC that he has um
because it's giant um and then use this
instead because that would be great because if my dad's going to play any
games it'll be like uh what is that game called Rocksmith I think it's Rocksmith
that game that you can play with an actual guitar okay kind of like rock
band yeah so he'll play like that or like a racing game so he'll probably be
fine with either one um so he could just
get the steam link but it might not work for everybody yeah so I'm uh I'm excited
to see where it goes I mean it's um it
it like you said it's not for everyone you want 4K you want like the absolute
best input latency you want this you want that okay fine well then you got to
pay but for 50 bucks for 1080p 60 with
you know sort of sub you know 60
milliseconds of of extra latency it's looking pretty compelling
and let's let's talk a little bit about the steam controller so this article is from IGN I'm just going to pull up this
this uh this still of of what we're looking at here so now the original the
original steam controller just had the two haptic feedback pads and valve's
concept was that they wanted you to uh
use that as your button inputs and as
your d-pad SL joysticks analog stick
whatever you want to call it they wanted all the control to be through the haptic
pads now it's still got that and they
are that sort of I we've seen a lot of different iterations with things like
the positions swapped around for a joystick versus a haptic pad or buttons
here buttons there um so now this is it
it has the two haptic pads on the outside in what look like the more
ergonomic positions and then it has a single joystick on the left and an
abxy layout of butt butons that looks like it's ripped straight off an Xbox
controller with with a steam button in the middle uh select and start or back
and forward or whatever you want to call those and then four trigger buttons on
the shoulders and then I believe there's two squeeze buttons on the bottom as
well Luke what's your take on this you've seen it right uh I I've seen it
yeah I have it up on stream right now actually because I'm trying to follow
along on the stream because I I don't really know what you're looking at uh
awesome I don't know I I am probably still going to stick with my like 360
controller thing um and I'll I'll maintain what I said actually when they
first started showing off steam controller things which is it might make
sense for games that I normally wouldn't want to play with a
controller yeah so so most games that I would want to play like an action game
if I want to play Assassin's Creed a lot of times I'll play it with a controller
um I didn't play shadow of morar with controller but I heard it was a pretty
good experience uh stuff like racing games I would always play with a
controller yeah third person's always pretty good with a controller um
no we are not teasing that that is going to be freaking awes is it going to be as
awesome as I think um the first couple I
think I was too tame and I've I've been
I've been uh I've had to apologize to a few people now nice oh I'm excited those
are going to be awesome videos freaking awesome part of part of
my problem right now is that uh I'm
trying not to leak this too much no one is lashing back at all really so it's
just really awkward yeah nice they Hammer into
someone and they'll just be like oh
okay like crap okay that's awkward I
don't know if that's better or worse okay okay you guys these videos are on
the schedule for I think the first one comes out Monday midnight and then I
think the second one comes out Tuesday midnight so stay tuned because these are
going to be awesome videos of basically Luke going Supreme troll on people it's
going to be it's going to be amazing um all right let's uh let's go ahead and
move on I guess oh source 2 will be free to all content developers kind of a big
deal that's awesome probably shouldn't miss that um so I guess I I would like
to to draw a bit of a conclusion about steam machine here before we move on
though um I'm going to go ahead I'm going to say dead in the water um About
Steam OS uh yeah valve announced a lot
of upcoming game GES that are going to be getting Linux support which is super
cool um I I don't understand the
relevance as a standalone product that exists in a vacuum Steam OS and a steam
machine that runs Steam OS makes sense
because it's like okay I don't have to pay for an OS I just saved some money on
my computer y but with the uh with the
uh the steam Link at 50 bucks delivering
in my mind 90% of the experience of what a dedicated steam box can do because
remember you're not buying a TV with 144 Herz refresh rate there is no compelling
reason to have higher than 60 FPS on
your TV anyway we're talking about a little bit of extra latency most couch
optimized games we're not playing csgo on the couch most couch optimized games
are going to be a more casual experience y anyway so Assassin's Creed or or game
or whatever that's right exactly so why do I need to have this utmost absolute
best performance when I can just for 50 bucks link up to a PC somewhere else and
then as if as as like kind of the final nail in the coffin as if game
compatibility for the ones that are you can actually run locally isn't bad
enough and yes it's getting better but let's face it it's not that great um
NVIDIA's news this week with the shield console is the answer to uh who needs
like is the answer for people who want to stream 4K uh well not okay not not
Shield console I didn't hear anything you haven't heard about the shield
console no okay it doesn't okay to be clear to be clear it doesn't do it yet
but Steam Machines aren't coming
until oh uh I think November November
yeah Steam Machines aren't coming till November now NVIDIA look how quickly
they've been iterating so Shield console is 200 bucks and it doesn't stream games
in 4K but it'll do 1080p 60 games if I
if I recall correctly hold on I might be wrong I I might I might be wrong uh
capable of decoding 4K 60fps so I actually I can't think of a of a clear
reason why it couldn't actually support 4K game stream at some point because it
can decode 4K 60fps so this will handle
all your 4K Netflix it'll handle any
other 4K Youtube it'll handle any other kind of 4K streaming service
and then again for games I don't think
that 4K gaming is there yet personally
gaming at 4K especially the latest AAA titles is not a tremendous experience so
the additional Network load the additional processing load the
additional Hardware that you have to buy for your computer 4K 4K streamed gaming
is is not happening yet 4K gaming in general is not happening yet even with
Titan X um so
well it's happening just not to the degree that it should be it's it's not
good enough that I'm ready to go for it personally I would just run 1080P and
make sure I never dip below 60 so I don't see those so I don't see those
dips and stutters because it's not like yeah it's not like you're getting
free sync or g-sync on your TV so you're going to see that stutter it's going to
happen and I would rather have the lower resolution than the hi hiccups and
stutters um yeah so so I think that
because this can handle the the the 4K
media media experience and can also do
1080p 60fps streaming I think that um
there are com more compelling options
than a steam machine all over the place and even from valve
themselves so I mean I might try out the controller just to give it a shot I
we've yet to see in my mind we've yet to see a controller better than the Xbox
360 the Xbox one one is okay I don't like the dual shock shape I get cramps
in my hands eventually NVIDIA's controller is okay it's not better than
an Xbox 360 controller by any means I like the integrated touchcreen that's
cool so I really want to see if valve
managed to figure out the tactile feedback of the buttons but there's a
thing I already really don't like about the Valve controller or the steam
controller and that is the positioning of the buttons and the the joystick and
also the fact that it outright doesn't have a d-pad um you know if you want to
if you want to play any emulated older console games or or anything like that
well go die in a fire because you're not
doing it on that controller it's not happening and that's something that I
actually do you know I probably do more Retro Gaming on my TV than I do current
gaming on my TV so that's a big deal for me I do most of my current gaming on my
portable someone says face it Linus you don't like any controllers absolutely
not true the Super Nintendo controller is exceptional I have like 15-year-old
Super Nintendo control well how old would they be older than that 20 I have 20-year-old Super Nintendo controllers
that still have great tactile response on the buttons and d-pad show me another
controller that has held up that well to the test of time I also really like the
Xbox 360 controller although the d-pad is garbage as the twitch chat is
exploding with so I have an SNES controller next to my uh that's actually
plugged directly into my media PC and then I have an Xbox 360 wireless
controller that is wirelessly connected to it and that takes care of all my
controller needs yeah um so we'll get into the NVIDIA
thing a little bit more lately or L lately later later y later uh mantle SDK
will be available to everyone this month so that's cool if you're into that that
was posted by vadada Gaming um
personally even though game developer support has actually been way better
than I ever expected for mantle um I
still don't see this going in anywhere um directx12 has has to be and and and I
mean it's Kronos group has most of mantle anyway uh Microsoft has included
aspects of mantle in the upcoming direct 3d2 uh or in in a direct X12 like
Mantle's going to have to differentiate itself in a pretty spectacular way and
AMD seems determined for it to not be very different from DirectX and openg G
as we move forward so like Mantle's cool and I think it was it a fire under the
industry and created hype amongst users it created user demand for these
low-level apis that most users would never even have an inkling of an
understanding as to why they were important and AMD did a great thing for
the industry there but directx12 is going to have to completely fall on its
face for mantle to be relevant at all moving forward and they had directx12
demos at GDC as well it's looking they
like side by side between 11 and 12 and that were actually pretty impressive I
did I did know about that it's looking pretty
good um oh wait that one was posted by
uh shoot I hate scrolling in uh in Google Sheets oh I already said that all
right I've got another one from oh wait are you posting these in the chat yep
okay awesome uh next one this is a rumor Google is reportedly preparing Android
Wear for iPhone and iPad this is big so
I'm going to go ahead I'll bring this up so this is on Mac roomors this is not
confirmed this is a rumor but there's a
developer that's managed to sync notifications between iPhone and Android
Wear um method involves using a protocol used by Pebble watch blippity bloopity
etc etc etc um this would be huge
because uh with some of the rumors circulating about the Apple watch and
its battery life although there's a new rumor that says five hours of screen on
time which is actually significantly better than the 3
to four that we were hearing before um that suggests that the Apple
watch might not be as much of a turd as I was uh sort of predicting that it
would be if Android Wear devices can be used crossplatform Apple's going to have
a real hard time selling me an Apple Watch that is for sure because
especially at the prices we're looking at there's rumored pricing for the Apple
watch sports is rumored to be 3.49 with the metal versions coming in
at I think it was $600 or $700 and the
All Gold version over 15,000
if apple is going to expect me to spend $700 on a watch then I'm going to I'm
going to use whatever damn phone I want and I'm going to have my notification
synced damn it that is how it is going to work otherwise that is uh that is a
lot to ask me to commit to in one ecosystem right yeah um so I mean what
else is there to to really say about that uh the developer claims that no
jailbreaking was required in order to make that
work um yeah I guess that's I'm surprised no
jailbreaking was required that's cool I'm just surprised
yeah super cool well it works apparently similarly to Pebble which I guess is a
good time for us to get into uh pebble is like you can you can just tell what a
what a bigger and more organized company
they have become since they first launched the pebble um so like this this
Kickstarter campaign is so beautifully orchestrated and planned so originally
it's like here's the pebble time it's awesome because color display up to I
think it's I I don't know if it's only the time steel that gets up to 10 hours
10 days of battery I forget I think Pebble time is also has a longer battery
life but forgive me if I'm wrong this new you know notification management
system blah blah blah it's amazing you should get one um they've raised I think
is it 16 or 18 million on Kickstarter making it by far crazy amount by far are
the most funded Kickstarter campaign ever and now they're coming right back
at us the next week Pebble time steel which looks
outstanding uh well that's that's what I I called out during the show when we
were talking about that I was like it doesn't look like they have a metal band
in their Kickstarter and I was like that's weird and then yeah I know they do and this was posted by the strict
nine on the form I'm just going to go ahead and pull this baby up it looks
bananas actually it looks very Apple watch esque um which is either a a huge
blow to the Apple watch or a huge kudos
to Pebble for coming up with such a beautiful design that's going to come in
at I think it's $2.99 is going to be the street price oh yeah it gets better than
that so you know that whole Project Ara
thing from uh from Google where it's like yeah modular phones well bam
modular watch this looks amazing Pebble time is going to support what they're
calling Smart Strap so your Smart Strap could contain extra
sensors for uh jogging or a bigger
bigger battery wow they're saying you can swap them in 5 to 10 seconds so you
could actually have multiple smart straps depending on what you're doing
wow yeah that is like if you could have
like a heart rate sensor one or an extended battery one I think that's all
I'd even really want yeah be like Oh I'm working out and then oh all the other
time because I don't like charging things that is some go bumps stuff right
there like imagining what cuz you look at what developers managed to do with
the pebble and no disrespect to Pebble they were a young company it was uh it
was it was successful because the Smartwatch Market was in completely in
its infancy the pebble was not amazing um I I was not the only one to have an
issue with a pebble eventually uh mine started like bugging out on the display
in their defense and the reason that I haven't really brought it up uh their customer support was outstanding they
didn't even make me send my old one back they just were like can you send us a
picture of the display garbled I sent it there was a new Pebble at my door within
a week like awesome they did a great job as far as that was concerned but the the
pebble was not as complete or polished a product as this and you look at what
developers were able to do with that thing yeah there was not a lot of
Hardware there well now now we're
talking now we're talking it's got a microphone it's got smart straps I mean
are we going to see smart straps with speakers cameras I I don't know oh who
knows speakers that could be a thing I
have no idea are we going to see smart straps with touch interfaces so you
could like do something uh they're suggesting things like GPS and NFC um
could be built into this like instead of this is so smart instead of putting all
the dads in the watch like I think this is Apple's mistake they're trying to put
so much in that watch we want it to have
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and NFC and a display and a freaking dial on the side
and a new interface and we're going to do all this stuff and it's like well hold on a second you know what if we
don't uh what if we don't need all that if we just don't yeah yeah so this is uh
this is really cool really exciting I am apparently on the list to review at
least the pebble time no idea about the pebble time steel but I certainly hope
they send one of each because I want to make sure that I am covering these as
well as possible I I I'm kind of a pebble fan boy although a lot of you
have noticed I'm using a gatr now um it
has taken me away from the pebble the pebble platform has aged and the Pebble
Steel wasn't enough of a step forward to to hold on to me but Pebble time looks
it might be Pebble time for me again oh
dang oh dang that is what that is what
makes you like the world's best Sidekick is no matter how awful I am you you
treat it you treat it like I said something cool I love you man did in my opinion a
that's nice I love you man uh what else we got here we should
have some we should have some more good stuff um all right uh so NVIDIA Titan X
this is posted by job 03 are you posting this in twitch yep yep are you just are
you in the habit now like do I just not have to remind you anymore or nope I've
I've got every single link so far I even went and found the one for the pebble
watch because that wasn't in order nice
all right chat is is freaking out with hearts a well we love you guys too
that's cute all right so this is the Titan x uh basically it's more black
it's got apparently green LEDs in the fan now so NVIDIA is like NVIDIA is
shaking things up it does look beautiful
um let's go ahead I'm just going to pull up uh a NCH has an article with is that
a white LED Titan logo but green deed
fan it does look that way doesn't it and
I'm a little disappointed in them there that's a little weird yeah I'm kind of
hoping it's RGB right that be even then that might
not make sense because the fan is not
so so what yeah at least I thought a nonte had
something uh Titan X specs uh specul
speculation
oh snap thank you I I like how um I'm
just reading the notes on line of sep's forum right now actually and it says
also looks like it will have a 12 Gigabyte frame buffer and without even
thinking about it my brain was like
11.5 no I had people asking me that like
immediately you know what I can't I can't find I could have sworn there was
uh I could have sworn there I thought I saw it on a ontech that there was an
article where they took what we knew and kind of filled in some of the we're
guessing at blanks okay and um I'm not
seeing that I wonder I wonder if I'm it could be that I'm wrong and it could be
that um yeah it could be I'm wrong it could
be that it was taken down I'm not sure but but basically there's a article by
Ryan Smith on an ACH inid announces GeForce GTX Titan X and it has a spec
bre breakdown that is one I'm looking for
why can I not find that there we go all right so let's pull this up so the
speculation is that uh it is going to no
we know it has a 12 gig frame buffer okay so here you can see what we know
and what's a question mark Ryan Smith's a good guy he doesn't mind me using his
chart um so he's guessing at 384bit
memory interface and this is this is a very good bet based on that Medium siiz
Maxwell that we already have in the GTX 980 and 970 uses a 256-bit interface and
then some Tom Foolery with the uh with the 970 to partially disable whatever
anyway it's a 256bit interface for most of the memory on the 970 and all the 980
so in order to get more memory bandwidth on Titan X either they're going to clock
it higher which to my knowledge um there's nothing available with higher
than 7 GHz gddr5 that's basically the ceiling for that technology we know that
Invidia doesn't have any kind of stacked memory technology coming out on Titan X
that would have been rumored at some point hasn't been so we're guessing 384bit we
know it has 12 gigs of vram we know the transistor count is 8 billion making
this big Maxwell you know the supercomputer Tesla Maxwell but for
gamers um it's getting 96 RS that's a
guess from Ryan Smith um and should be
on the same manufacturing process as uh gtx980 because we haven't heard anything
about NVIDIA launching anything higher than that and launch price R like Ryan's
estimate here a large number large number yeah I have heard everything from
,000 to $1,400 in the rumor mill and I
have no knowledge whatsoever I mean when Titan launched $1,000 for a
gaming card was insane and
the sort of the answer from NVIDIA was
well this isn't a gaming card this is a Cuda development and like dual Precision
you know compute card and rendering workstation the Titan X is not
positioned that way though it it look
look at the photo uh where where's the photo the
photo shows on the box it says like uh designed for gamers or something let me
find this photo yeah I'll try and find the one it's on Tech gauge I think
right inspired by Gamers built by NVIDIA
like that's that's gamer marketing you can't even before it was a little kind
of back and forth this time that's gamer marketing no NVIDIA screwed this up on
Titan Z too quite frankly because they couldn't decide yeah there it is
inspired by Gamers built by NVIDIA they couldn't decide on Titan Z because the
the whole announcement was like the world's most powerful gaming card and
then when pressed they're like oh well it's you know for Cuda yeah because it
was like $3,000 at launch and made absolutely no sense like I I do wonder
if Titan Z was just NVIDIA kind of testing the waters
like what are people gonna tolerate how
much will people spend um I wouldn't be surprised to see
Titan X more than $1,000 but I would be I would be happy to see well see happy
is such a funny word for this I would be I would be um some of my faith would be
restored if it launched at a thousand instead of more because looking at what
we know about Titan X specs and what we
can estimate based on Titan versus uh
versus GK 104 uh so GK GK 100 versus GK
104 um or was it GM 100 I can't remember
whatever 100 versus 104 of the last gen I would expect it to be about you know
40% faster than a gtx980 which is now
we're talking GM 204 versus go gm200 um
so if it cost 40% more then that would be like okay we're not going to pay a
huge premium for this but if you're getting double Precision NVIDIA could go
well hey that's worth a couple hundred bucks and you know hey it's black or
that's worth a bit anyway at least you think so we'll see what they do like I
said earlier on the stream for those of you who missed it apparently our card is
inbound so Luke has his work cut out for him when he gets back and I'm going to
have to completely rearrange our video schedule that I spent like two hours on
this week cuz we're trying to make for for buffering some content so yeah we
can just release like 16 videos vote Titan
X about it Titan X shroud Titan X heat
pipes top five top five screws that hold
together Titan X not all of the screws just the top
five top five games that push the Titan X is frame buffer more than other ones
oh my goodness you know what you are starting to sound like a
YouTuber it only took a few years but you're starting to sound like a YouTuber
damn it kind of sad though I'm still going to
do it because it's a really cool looking card but uh I went by evj and they have
their 980 Kingpin and I was like oh cool because I
haven't actually seen that one yet and I was going to do like a little mini video on it tomorrow and I'm still going to do
it but that video is so hampered by the Titan X
news yeah man oh jeez oh well but the
suggestion I'll call it the Titan X prequel because I can assure you that
EVGA at some level is privy to what NVIDIA's got going on so if they thought
it was worth it to release a 980 Kingpin then this is the first hint that Titan X
is going to be a heck of a lot more expensive than 980 yeah I say yeah I might have said
classified I meant Kingpin we have a 980 classified are you drunk yeah I I I
meant Kingpin oh you meant Kingpin no you said Kingpin Kingpin yeah okay good
no you got it right 100 everything was 100% okay until just now
okay dang cuz Kingpin typically carries
what a $50 $0000 premium over a
classified uh it's it's a lot the the 980 Kingpin is
$800 yeah so if this is only 200 more
I'm willing to bet this isn't only 200 more right so we'll see we shall see um
for sure let's get into a little bit more NVIDIA news so just because you've
been like on flights and packing and all that stuff you you miss you missed out
big so NVIDIA pretty important yeah
NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Shield again
um remember guys for those of you who don't remember this the original Shield
handheld was called the shield and then they renamed it Shield portable when
they launched The Shield tablet and now we're getting the NVIDIA Shield which is
a console it does not have a display I believe it comes yeah so it's priced at
$1.99 with a game controller and uh 50
games including Crisis 3 and Borderlands the Pre-Sequel I'm assuming that's the
grid subscription that you get with it and I'm not sure how long you get a grid
subscription with it because I know that they were talking about at some point uh
Shield portable and Shield tablet getting six months or something like
that three months maybe some whatever they were getting like a window this one
I don't know maybe it just comes with a grid subscription anyway so they up this
was posted by giving TNT on the Forum ah thank you so so Shield is going to have
have a Tegra X Tegra X1 processor so
NVIDIA is claiming uh twice the power of an Xbox 360 at 1 of the power
consumption it is going to be capable of decoding 4K at 60 FPS it is going to be
the first 4K Android TV and it's it's
really funny someone put together a hilarious cutup of Jensen saying TV TV
TV TV TV TV TV like it seemed like when
you watch it like that it seems like every word out of his freaking mouth during this thing must have been TV TV
TV Television TV television Android TV
TV like so they they're really pitching it as like an Android TV device uh
that's capable of 4K but it's also um it's also very much a console so
uh Razer was showing off in their suite and I really do think razer's console is
completely dead in the water at this point um if it's an extra if it's an
extra 100 bucks for this thing which is
not running a Snapdragon Ada whatever the heck and uh and is going to be able
to legitimately run some serious games at 1080P and some not serious games at
who knows maybe you can run games at 4K as well because it does have HDMI 2.0
out so you can legit hook this up to your 4K TV and have that 4K experience
um and so anyway so it's got the GPU horsepower and sorry right back to the
razor Booth so they showed off a really cool cool Arena fighter based game that
was for concurrent players um this is
what Android consoles have been building to Android consoles if they get game
support for actual legitimate multiplayer games up till now there
hasn't been a whole lot of like sit around with your Bros and play games on
controllers Android games if NVIDIA is
pushing this and boy have they ever demonstrated that they're pushing this
ever since they announced console mode for the original shield and and then it
was like this stupid kind of experience
where you have to get like an on the-go adapter and like a USB Ethernet thing
and then you could run 1080p 60 instead of 720p and like you had to you know
charge it up before you did it and then okay well hold on maybe if you use a
splitter so I use a splitter in a powered Hub in order to charge the shield and run it at the same time but
and then and then it's like okay so yeah that's like pretty doofy then we got
Shield tablet where they were really pitching using it as a console and hey
now we've got support for multiple wireless controllers we've got our own controller there's all this awesome
stuff NVIDIA didn't have their own controller before they are pushing hard
so now there's a dedicated console it's 40 plus hours of battery life on the
controller it comes with a remote that includes voice activation so you can use
all your Google Now nonsense with it um
and grid Grid's a big deal um NVIDIA is claiming 150 milliseconds of latency
playing games remotely which again no CSO forget it not going to happen but
for racing games for third person you know adventure games that's going to be
very playable and I know this because I've been in the grid beta for over a
year now it is surprisingly not bad very
surprisingly not bad and I'm not as close to an NVIDIA data center as some
people would be once they start putting grid centers around the planet we are
going to be talking about especially in in places like in small dense places
like I don't know the UK or Japan you
could be within a distance that would give you you know fiber latencies in the
you know 5 millisecond or lower range of
of a grid Center if it comes to that and it may actually for many gamers
especially casual ones who might not play a particular game like that's
something to consider for the gamers that are saying you know online
streaming gaming is never going to happen not everyone buys a game for 60
bucks and then puts 150 hours into it yeah some people are more like a casual
browser and they don't want to buy every game but if they have you know 50 games
or 100 or 150 or 500 games at their fingertips they might play this one for
an hour or they might play that one for a couple hours and this is going to
really appeal to those people yeah and
they should just start installing them on all the Tesla charging
stations ha that' actually be kind of awesome s like play games everywhere
yeah great apparently the grid service is going to come with unreleased games
that will be on Shield at launch remember NVIDIA's got those deep
developer relationships yeah they do imagine that and what's also really cool
about grid and again why I want home grid this is still not the grid I'm
looking for I want home grid where you just like Pile in a pile of gpus and
then you have basically unlimited horsepower that you can up however you
want um I mean you we could potentially
be looking at you know every game on Max no matter what because they can throw as
much GPU horsepower at it as they want and yeah it'll be it'll be 1080p uh
1080p 60 I believe is the premium service with the normal service being
720p 30 so for small people with smaller
TVs effectively Max details though it's
going to be nice that's awesome you know
maybe we should do like a we should probably do a straw pole on this
straw pole and I want your guys honest answer
I know a lot of the time we do like just troll straw Poes or we'll have like a
like a troll answer yeah um dang it I
typed in the wrong thing and no yes I want to leave this page okay will you subscribe okay what
price to subscribe to grid premium
that's what I want to know so just for context guys
Netflix is going to be what eight bucks a month um Amazon do they still include
their their Prime video service with a Prime Membership I can't remember the details
I think so I don't know because that's not available in Canada yeah so but I I
think I think they do okay so Netflix is going to be eight eight bucks a month or
whatever um let's see what what else is
like what else could we really compare it to Hulu is in that same kind of price
r or Hulu Plus rather is in that same price Ro uh crunchy roll is in the
neighborhood of about eight bucks a month or 10 bucks a month or something like that vessel will be much cheaper
than that yeah vessel's three um but vessel doesn't have any exclusive
content it's just Early Access so like
whatever um I'm talking about like exclusive content where you're actually
like buying content for your subscription oh so okay Netflix Hulu
mainly HBO Go oh yeah that's that's uh
uh what's the new what's the new thing HBO now which is going to be different
from HBO GO is apparently uh could be launching in April for $15 a month
that's not that cheap that's yeah it's so um it's not clear what content will
be included sorry we're switching news topics okay whatever let's do the HBO
thing because it kind of ties into this um it's not clear what content will be
included but in my mind I really do wonder if it's going to be everything at
$15 a month we're talking like you're
paying a dollar per thing you're going to watch if you're watching just new
stuff and you don't follow every HBO show like yeah that is some pretty
premium pricing they got going on there and that is really expensive but it's
it's it's uh blah blah blah yeah so the
article from end Gadget this was posted by roohi su Kumar SP um so the article
from end Gadget speculates that it might only have older content because HBO
probably doesn't want their entire viewer base to cut the cable because I
suspect h boo subscriptions are the only thing keeping a lot of people from cord
cutting yeah so 15 bucks a month for
that so let's go ahead let's let's let's do like a few different price points
here let's go less than five bucks okay
let's go um we're talking about grid right now right yeah yeah five to 5 to
10 uh let's go 10 to uh
15 let's go let's let's see would people
pay like $5 to $25 for all you can game
service um at the cost of needing to
deal with 150 milliseconds of latency because remember you can go buy CSO and
install that on your computer and then you could play everything else on grid
if you don't care um and then let's go
um I'm not even going to have an option over 50 CU I I don't think they're going
to charge anywhere near that much um and I'm just going to have an option that
says no way people are calling me out for being tired I I I have to be the the
only like desk chair thing in here is being currently taken up by Brandon cuz
he needs to edit so I'm like laying in bed I had 2 hours of sleep last night
and I was walking around the conference all day today so yes I am extremely
tired I'm TI for the yawning cuz I was I was talking to you at like whatever time
that was that was like midnight after midnight my time I yeah was like my time
I think it was like F I think I finally went to bed at like 5:00 a.m. local time
and then I had to wake up at like 7
either either either your boss is like a
terrible person or you're extremely
dedicated all right now I I I I can you
can you see the uh can you see the stream right now I I want to talk about
I want to talk about this grid premium thing as the results roll in so it looks
like they're going to have a lot of customers this is something I wasn't
expecting our audience I was expecting to go hardcore no way or like less than
five bucks but you guys are giving us some real interesting feedback it looks
like a clear over 50% of you are willing
to pay between five and $15 for an
OnDemand gaming service this could be no
way is only 25% wow that's right this
could be a so so hold on let's look at this a different way hold on so 31 + 25+
8 plus 2 so Plus 10 is 35 is
667 two3 of you are willing to pay more
than $5 for grid premium a month that is
that would be way easier to do if you just did the negative if you just added
no way and Below $5 together and then took that away from
100 uh either way though that blows me
away NVIDIA if NVIDIA's long-term plan
and we've been talking about this for a long time right Luke if's long-term plan
start of w show is to not make graphics
cards anymore as their business yeah this is it this is the time it just
happened yeah cuz like a subscription service
like this is the difference between being a company that makes widgets and
being a company with like big massive
Revenue to continue developing the service and to like I mean you look at
what happened with Netflix all of a sudden they go from we're a streaming
service to we develop original
programming yeah like NVIDIA could even get into games at that point considering
how much they're already have their fingers pretty deep into development of
games and the development of game Technologies and stuff like that but
then think about this imagine a world where NVIDIA gets to make their own
games and how poorly those will run on competing
Hardware yeah yeah or but they would probably only release through the grid
service I was going to say imagine world where the only way to get access to a
particular game this is the NVIDIA
console grid is the console that Android console is almost like hedging their
bets so you can like play stupid Android
games or or maybe great Android games or whatever and video seems to not care
about that anymore so you can play Android games on it or or whatever but
you're going to need this to get grid and people are going to buy it yeah very
interesting to me especially if you look at how competitive their products are
already with other devices like Shield tablet is a good tablet Shield tablet
with a $5 a month grid service is an unbelievable
value yeah scary it's kind of scary like
I I like NVIDIA as much as the next guy but they also they also kind of scare me
sometimes yeah I don't know I was talking to someone the other day about
how like I I maybe this was even on W show wow it might be that's awkward um
about how like I'm getting a little frustrated with Google because they're
getting they kind of dropped that do no evil thing and they're kind doing a lot
of evil lately and like I'd way rather Microsoft be the big Mega Corporation
because while I might not be a huge fan
all the time they don't seem to do like massively horrible things well they'
they've gotten past it they've gotten over the hump it's
it's like it's almost like you have to get you have to become accustom you have
to grow into your britches you have to become accustomed to being a mega power
and then it's like okay you know maybe
we maybe we just don't need to crush everything maybe we're okay and like
they can also make a product and we can make a product yeah yeah and that's cool
I don't know if Google will ever be okay with that though I think Google's new
motto meanss to be uh world domination or nothing world domination or nothing
they seem to be they seem to be headed that way don't they I mean they should
just change it I uh someone in the chat
developers developers developers
developers that should be like pebble's motto I don't want to talk about Pebble
anymore on the stream but they really do seem to be focused on here's a platform
like make it make it awesome we'll make it as awesome as we can but like you
guys make it more awesome and that's great um okay we should probably do our
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handam for yeah yeah sure uh Nick's gonna come and and hand cam it up for me
but I am unboxing this month's Loot
Crate I feel I feel abandoned I went to
Loot Crate today and tried to like talk to them but they were being
swarmed yeah I was super full there was
no there was no talking to them oh I
can't use that camera because it's being used by another application you know
what's awkward we should talk to our cameraman because um I'm pretty sure
that that like whatever camera Nick is holding right now has better color than
the black magic oh it's it's because I it's because I did it yeah they could
fix it okay well I'm going to have to uh Skype is grabbing those so uh yeah it
can't it can't have that all right well I'm gonna Open up The Loot Crate and I'm
just gonna hold it up for you ni can you not put the camera where you just did
wait what oh you can see it oh right Luke's watching me on this
camera and Nick just like puts it down on the table it's like what a freaking
troll look at that guy what a guy guy
what a guy that Nick guy I hate that guy
I love that guy I love everyone today I'm just having like a I'm having a love
day we uh we filmed Channel Super Fun today it was bananas we did the Soccer
Boppers oh I missed that a I was hoping
you guys were going to wait no no sorry we had to we had to get her done it we
we went like tournament Style again um you know those wreck everyone you know
those old pies that were in the fridge from like that expired in like
December oh no all I'm going to say is
the video involves those pies oh no
that's not good there's no way that's
good so the upcoming Channel Super Fun
is going to be bananas but let's uh let's open up this Loot Crate first so I
I usually Nick sends me notes on these things and I'm sure that I'm supposed to
way more fun just go through it that's like the whole thing with lot CR but no
I it would be nice if I knew at least the theme right okay yeah we're usually
usually I don't uh so this is February's play crate all right so what we got oh
these are awesome it has a hex bug oh
that's cool these things are freaking bananas uh we actually did uh we
speaking of Channel Super Fun yeah it's not the same kind of hex bug so it's uh
this is the hex bug ant so we did uh we
did hex buug racing the ones that just kind of vibrate on the table and then
they uh they they kind of like move around they're and they kind of move
around on the table so we did hexbox bug racing before but this is a new kind
kind of hex bug and it's packaged extremely well I
claim to be a professional unboxer and I cannot get this out of the box wall wall
wrecked I I like that it's crate packing
simulator and I think the box is actually a uh like a board game did you
notice that no I have I have not noticed
not not for the bug for the whole loot CR yeah I see that yeah I have not
noticed anything that isn't this ant oh my goodness look at this it has little
rolly Wheels that this thing is
adorable whoa it's fast whoa yeah holy
cow that's sick okay hold on let me uh I'm just going to put it on the back of
my laptop so you guys can see how fast it is
ah no oh I love I love hex bugs okay that's
clearly not going to work what I'm trying to do right now but it's got a little uh it's got a little wire in the
front so it doesn't get stuck on anything so it bounces off all right
what else we got in here is that a
book how do they include a book in this
like a full wow that's a full book no like an actual book it's uh Ready Player
One New York Times besteller by Ernest
that's a really good book like legitimately that is
incredible they must have had this done as a completely custom print for them
because um the grown-ups Harry Potter apparently because there is no price on
it this seems to like there's there's usually a price like ISBN blahy blahy
whatever well let me look it up on Amazon I know that book like 100% I know
that book that's awesome all right was like the CUO getting it now we've got uh
create your own vinyl art toy money world that's pretty cute so this is a
mini M it money mini money it comes with
three markers black red and blue and you go ahead and like draw on it that's
pretty adorable and then what else we got this looks like a little poster I'm
going to go ahead and try and open this baby I like these Loot Crate sponsor
spots we always go way over time on them but we do they're just kind of fun so
ready player one is
$17 wow I don't I think Loot Crate increased their pricing though right I
don't think it's 1337 anymore yeah but it's I think that's only in Canada and I
think that's because of the dollar issues right I'm not sure though this is
cute so it's like I don't know console or something
it's Pacman see yeah that's fine uh what else we got oh yeah yeah I'm not holding
it up to you I'm holding it up to that camera all right so crate packing
Simulator 2015 game instructions welcome to loot crate's first original board
game so you can see there's a game board in there um the goal is simple be the
first player to have all five items in your crate use the rock paper scissors
dice to determine who will make the first move once a first player is chosen
continue to use the rock paper sister ice with these numerical values to move your game token so depending on who
plays what you move one two or three land on a star pick up one item land on
a circle dice battle blah blah blah etc etc oh neat so it seems to include items
from previous loot crates like the 8 bit
glasses so I guess this is like if you are already subscribed or something then
that's good yeah yeah all right it comes with super Fight The Loot Crate deck
this is a 100 card version of the viral card game super fight designed
exclusively for Loot Crate by skybound these cards are only available in this
exclusive deck jeez this one's got a lot there's a
button yeah um there's the rock paper
scissors dice so it's got rocks papers and scissors on it maybe everything is
included with this one I don't see8 bit glasses though um interesting what else
we got there's a firefly online Buddhist temple concept art thing Firefly online
is that an upcoming game or something yeah man I haven't even heard of that
yeah dude I hope it's not as bad as the movie I never finished the movie I don't
know if I told you that yeah that that did not happen and then their uh their
Loot Crate magazine has a history of game controllers cool it might be as bad as
the movie I I'll end game pieces for the
board game I sincerely hope it's not as bad as the movie because oh man like I I
really enjoyed the show uh anyway right use offer code Linus to save 10% on Loot
Crate um I really enjoyed the show but
that movie was bad it did not know what
it was it had no identity it had no charm it just it was just like trying
too hard to be Mission Impossible kind of thing right I still liked it but like
yeah I liked it because I'm a fanboy of firefly not because it's yeah anyways
yeah I just looked it up and apparently it's a thing already oh I didn't know it
was released but it looks super not
good all right then well at any rate everything else in that Loot Crate was
pretty fun yeah um it might be good I
don't know this is kind of a so we'll get into rapid fire topics because we're
actually coming pretty close to the end of the show here WhatsApp now permanently bans users using third party
apps uh Facebook has been cracking down on the developers of third party apps
and now they are just outright Banning people who insist on using them by
blacklisting their phone numbers so while you could get a new phone number
um it is going to be a real pain in the butt to try to use third party apps on
WhatsApp you must use the official app from now on this was posted by Victoria
Secret on the Forum did you post this one in chat I did already wow I don't
even see you moving you're like a freaking ninja over there I'm a ghost
dude hey are we both wearing the same shirt today we are actually nice yes
nice I made sure that I had uh proper show shirts and then when I got here I
realized that my keep on digging shirt is a medium nice that is going to be
hot that is like going to be some sexy stuff stuff going on over there I am
liking it already I haven't even seen these Goods oh
jeez well you have yeah okay but not not
not today video yeah no that's true yeah yeah who says I didn't video it they
make real small cameras these days oh my God uh Huawei is the next Nexus maker
confirms Kevin Yang from ey Supply uh this is posted by Victoria Secret Google
partnering up with a Chinese OEM for the new Nexus so Huawei is the biggest
competitor to zi and um they're also
apparently partnering with LG on another Nexus device later in
2015 um the speculation this original
article here is from giz mokina I'm going to go ahead and uh
throw that up on the screen here but the speculation is that maybe we will see a
return to Affordable Nexus
devices uh this doesn't seem to yeah here we go could Huawei be the next
Nexus maker um I would really like to
see that in my mind the Nexus 6 was a
disaster uh between lollipop me seeing
people refer to it as Android Vista um
and and just the fact that that Hardware was so expensive for something that
didn't offer a tangibly better experience than um you
know other similarly priced pieces of Hardware I just couldn't get into the
Nexus 6 uh very much prefer the Droid Turbo I've been using the Moto E and uh
so far I can tell you guys it's $150
phone whatever my expectations were going in they were too high um oh jeez
yeah I'm not I'm not too impressed with it so far but I got to in the video I'm
going to try to do a better job of understanding in my brain space that
it's a $150 phone in my brain space I
honestly like between you and me Luke um
I have been seriously put off doing phone reviews it's not like there
haven't been phones that I could look at I could have done a later review of the
6 Plus um I could have done the Z3 compact something people have been
asking me to review forever um you know I could have done
the Note 4 something we we definitely had access to and I was just like eh I
did the Nexus 6 big phones are still too big
so there's that so my Note 4 review
would just be that in a nutshell but with like TouchWiz over top of it yeah
yeah yeah oh no um so I've been putting
it off because I love the droid turbo and I just hate switching my phone
especially because I like using that phone so much so the Moto a has been a
rude awakening there was a Kaylee cosplayer so I took a picture with her
and I had Brandon take the picture on my phone and Brandon was like wow yeah
you're right the camera's really
bad it's like yeah man it's it's it's
horrible I think I think the Moto E gen
actually I like the camera better than your old Moto X probably it's not that
bad but it has no flash yeah no flash
how am I gonna how am I going to have a flashlight when I'm crawling around in my attic that's so
stupid how much does an LED cost not
much I can tell you that much anyway uh
Gabe Newell this is posted to by aing on the Forum says and I quote
0% of people get motion sick using the
new Vive VR headset that was a collaborative effort between valve and
HTC Holy balls so they are using a
completely new system for motion tracking that they're calling Lighthouse
and the way that this works is it actually has um I forget if they are
sensors or emitters but either the headset has emitters and their sensors
are the other way around um but it has these devices in the corners of the room
that are constantly monitoring where you are in relation to them and they can
even track not just the headset itself
but also peripheral devices or even multiple people with headsets and
peripherals this looks bananas Oculus
had a window where there was going to be no competition and the rift was going to
win that window is closing extremely
quickly a window's gone uh did you I
don't I don't know if you've heard this but the rift like in what seems def what
in what definitely seems like a response to the Vive the rift they've kind of
stepped back and been like well we might have said a release date that might be a
little earlier than we expected so we might be releasing later and all this
kind of stuff and they're kind of pushing theirs back now which means that
the Vive might actually have a consumer release before um cv1
wow Oculus might have just got super wrecked um it's it's a lot of it's still
kind of rumor mill stuff but yeah it it was late 2015 that was the plan yeah and
then there there there's been Rumor Mill going around that they're going like we
might have kind of estimated that wrong we might have to do it a little bit later which could be really bad because
Vive is apparently ready to go wow I uh you know what for me it's
going to come down to this like I'll probably get them all anyway because to
review them but the one that I buy with my personal credit card not the company
card to sit and collect dust at the office because it's not mine the one
that I buy and take home the one that I like order two of one on each card where
I'm going to need one and we're going to need one for you know testing you know
graphics card performance with VR headsets like like we're going to need all of them at the office the one that I
buy is going to be the one that is
released and supports EV Val vye Elite
dangerous and at a later date Star Citizen because we are nowhere near the
amount of Graphics horsepower to run that game and nowhere near release Elite
dangerous and E Valkyrie whatever supports those if it's $200 I'll buy it
if it's $300 I'll buy it and if it's $500 I am going to buy it one thing
that's going to be interesting is um
valve obviously really good relationship with a lot of different Publishers um
but relationship Oculus is becoming a
publisher and I believe is Oculus not
publishing Valkyrie I don't remember I think Oculus
might be publishing Valkyrie meaning that it might not go to Vive I I know I
think it was going to Morpheus or something else um but yeah I think they
might be able to lock that down which is going to make this really unfortunate
but really interesting at the same time and could kind of start a war between
Vive and Rift which would be pretty interesting to see I'm very very happy
that this happened because um going to places like CES and seeing the sheer
amount of VR stuff that was there that was just all
garbage was super disappointing because I I like I went to CES and was like okay
this is going to be sick because I'm going to see the new revision of uh the
Oculus which is going to be great the Oculus Rift which is going to be great
um and then I'm going to see all this other stuff and I'm excited to see the
competition and I got to CES and I was like there is no competition there I am
not seeing the competition because it is not here because it doesn't exist and
then now finally there's someone that can push them and apparently really
freaking hard which is great I'm so happy that
this happened I'm liking this I'm I'm stoked which and you're right it's a
co-publishing deal and so I I may not
get to okay I'll settle for elite dangerous then um are you going to buy
it by the way have you tried it Elite dangerous yeah I've tried it a little
bit it seems actually pretty sick I'll I'll very likely buy it yeah okay cool
cool we should we should start playing like seriously playing around the same
time so we can like bro it up you know what's funny so many people so many
people were like really confused by that that spat that we had at the end of that
Techquickie video the what oh oh yeah
yeah yeah okay so I want to I want to go on the record and clarify that um the
Luke was going to host that video that was the plan but Luke was really sick
and lost his voice so I had to come host
it and then fractal Josh from fractal
put Luke up to quitting like on camera
in the middle of me filming and then the
plan from Josh's side was for me to not
know what was happening but that's dumb
so Nick told me so the whole thing was
completely staged so so I think we I
think some people were like some some people were like uh um that was really
like awkward and hard to watch um I think we might have overdone a little
bit and we probably should have we probably should have clarified at the
end that like that didn't happen yeah
because that was I thought you did I didn't even know because I I walked out
of the door and then as as some people noticed I wasn't wearing shoes so so I
walked out of the door and I just kind of like stood on the the on the mat outside of the door with my ear to the
door waiting for you to be done but I couldn't really hear what you saying I could just tell that you were talking so
I I had no idea that there wasn't a clarification until it went live which
was kind of hilarious because the sheer amount of like Forum PMS tweets uh just
everything that I got was just insane and I I loved it where people would be
like well he walked out not wearing shoes and with a mic pack on his hip so
it's probably fine that's awesome uh oh Nick wanted me
to let you guys know that the merch list Tech tips.com the store has been
restocked I've had a lot of people messaging me being like yo y at the end
of your videos you're always like hey you could buy a t-shirt like this one I went in your store there's like no
t-shirts dude and I was like yeah uh we
have a new rep at um at District Lines
um apparently lanyards are going to be coming soon I had sort of forgotten
about that so that's that's I was gonna be able to give some away at PAX East
but they didn't come quite fast enough yeah that's a bummer uh we have a new
shirt design coming um like one of the
one of the ongoing jokes here for um let
me see if I can find it one of the ongoing jokes here at lennis Media Group
is we don't sleep and sleep is for uh sleep is for wusses should what do you
what do you think Luke should I tease the artwork because I think it's amazing sure yeah no that's cool okay
I'm gonna see if I can I think I think
Nick messaged it to me
um B I'm really frustrated I can't find
it the problem is find it I talked to Nick way too
much he he would have used push
right probably but it might not have been sent to him it might have been sent
to him through some form of Hosting um oh
balls let me see I'll see if I can find it anyway in the meantime uh I'll do
another rapid fire thing if you if you want to look for it then I'll uh I'll do
that for right now okay Google is apparently uh headline a little bit
misleading here uh this was posted by Victoria Secret I'll go ahead and I'll
I'll do the the post if you're looking for this then yeah okay sounds good okay
so Google is apparently working on a technology or at least has published a
paper about a technology that would allow it to tell whether facts on the
internet are actually true and this is
100% theoretical now but could be both
amazing and abs absolutely terrifying in
the future so we go ahead and pull up the article on newscientist.com
uh but the and again all these all these are so sensationalist Google wants to
rank websites based on facts not links
or traffic or popularity well hold on hold on a second they haven't they
haven't said that but what they're trying to figure out is how to make how
to check a website's um General accuracy by taking facts that
they know like lonus Sebastian's birthday is August 20th if that was
posted on that website then that would be like like a a like a veracity score
like that would be a truth score and then the higher a websites or web pages
truth score the higher it would be ranked because the better the likelihood
that the other information on it is true
and that seems to be how they are planning to have this work and this is
incredibly cool I there's a couple so you know sites like the onion are
probably going to have a much harder time getting good search rankings because you know a lot of that a lot of
that traffic still comes from people who don't know that the onion is nonsense
yeah um and so when something goes hyperv viral and it's a fake news story
it's going to it's going to hurt sort of that business I guess but oh well I
suppose um but the bigger thing to me is
this could hurt
um and I don't want to I don't want this to turn into a religious debate okay
that's not the objective here yeah I'm going there with this um so if a site
had information on it that was clearly factually inaccurate like dinosaurs
never existed for example oh geez it
would allow Google to bury other
information on the site and present it as not fact and it would take
information from sites that contain fact
like that dinosaurs existed and it would
take those articles and call them fact
and I'm not going to I'm not weighing in on this debate I am not getting involved
in this but you just kind of did no I'm
not going to say where I stand on it but what I'm going to say is that it could
create a situation where the beliefs of
people whether you know where where something is hotly debated okay where
the beliefs of people could be undermined by Google sorting based on
the fact might ignore those things though might manually ignore those
things do you think it will because
there's interesting sub I I don't know if it will or not I doubt it come on man
um well I don't know filtering for religious stuff might be a really good
PR move for Google to do and is actually
fairly understandable um but another thing that could be kind of an issue is
rumors yeah Rumor Mill websites there's a lot of really big Rumor Mill websites
wccftech is largely rumor mill stuff for graphics cards yep um what happens with
rumors are are those facts no but are they
lies no they're not really fake necessarily so there this raises up this
this is like we're going to have kettles of fish to boil for for weeks on weeks
on weeks um when we when when and if
they decide to start implementing something like this um so I I'll be very
interested to like oh man like there's
so many good things that can come of it you know like are carrots bad for you if
Google could just if Google could just destroy the search rankings of anyone
that says carrots are bad for you or is oxygenated water going to help you
perform better at sports could help for
uh yeah like basically what you're saying but more specifically just
medical things in general because there's so much Medical
all all over the Internet yes it's it's
it's crazy so if they could help people and apparently they've looked into
working with the May Clinic already okay so like Health stuff is a big deal uh
like they no I think they've actually worked with the Mayo Clinic on certain things um so like like health
information is going to be like a a really really huge part of this like if
because you know you know those businesses that are structured like
create a complete BS product and then create an entire network ofes about
revie that product and giving it positive reviews and fake testimonials
so that it clutters up the search results that is what this needs to
destroy well like yeah it would be nice
if Google could start hunting out no
Google probably won't do this but it would be nice if I guess Amazon could do
it but I actually don't even think Amazon will do it but hunting out fake
reviews because that's starting to be a really big issue y big problem huge
percentages of reviews are Foo yep which
is not not cool at all well I think
that's pretty much it uh we're we're an hour and a half in here and uh it's been
a it's been a great show and we've enjoyed it very very muchly and I think
uh we will we will see you guys uh we'll see you guys next week same bat Time
same bat Channel um did you have anything to add I mean are you are you
looking forward to the rest of the show yeah um I said this a little bit
earlier which was kind of we we we missed the boat a little bit we we went
to the wrong parade um GDC was where all
the the fun ended up being apparently a lot of computer hardware vendors
actually bailed out last minute um so like NVIDIA was supposed to
be here right yeah they're always at and then yeah and then not that long ago
they bailed out because they did their launch at GDC right y they did their
launch at GDC and they have their own event coming in like two weeks
yeah so like a lot of different Hardware vendors actually didn't end up showing
up so I was pretty worried like at one point in time today I was legitimately
going through and being like we are screwed we're not going to get half of
the videos that we need um and then someone pointed me out into this like
what is that noise sorry I'm playing with the thing from the loot CR oh jeez
um one of that that sounded horrible uh
one of the people that I met up with pointed me out to this like corner that
was hidden behind the twitch booth and like Spotswood Tech benches is there um
I know I know he he's in partnership with EK water blocks they they like have
one booth together uh EVGA is there anax
is there they don't have anything new but they're there um PNY is there like
like that's it's it's where all like the all like the little tech companies kind
of huddled together the yeah so we're
going to make it but like put an put a 290x in the middle
yeah it it it it was and is close I I
think there's like exactly enough stuff for us to make exactly the amount of
videos that we need to make nice but like there should have been an abundance
but then GDC was crazy one of the reasons why is um PAX East was only 11
months ago it should have been 12 months
ago oh interesting it wasn't a year ago
um they they moved it because it was on spring break or something before or
maybe it wasn't exactly a month difference or something like that so it
it brought it much closer to GDC and it
brought it closer to CES so it's harder for Hardware companies which are going
to have bigger development time Spiel to actually have something and a lot of the
gaming guys are pulling their hair out
because they flew directly from GDC to PX East and are hosting again which is
crazy yeah like there's a lot of those Booth guys that haven't had a break
they they hosted GDC they flew they set up they hosted PAX East like absolutely
nuts so it's a pretty crazy timing
yeah but yeah there's some cool stuff there's a hardware company that I didn't
even know existed they're very very new
um I think they were founded in 2014
they're a Korean company that makes RAM and it's easily some of the best RAM
that I've ever seen and like every single one of their different kits are
some of the best RAM I've ever seen in terms of like Aesthetics right because
RAM's RAM at this point yes basically um so yeah we're gonna be we'll have a
video from them which will be pretty cool all right well we will see you guys
next week and uh thank you very much for tuning in and uh for those of you who
missed it the archive will be going up sometime tonight I've got badminton
tonight though so it'll be probably a little bit on the later side especially because I have to stitch together two
chunks of show because uh because [ __ ]
magic all right
wow all right all right later bye oh
guys sorry no after party today I got to go to badminton