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all right well it's uh I guess night one of NVIDIA's the way it's meant to be
played 2013 event I guess we'll start with the tour of the hotel room so I'm
staying at the Marriot and it seems to me like every hotel ever has all gotten
together and conspire to make it as difficult as possible to light up your
room so there's the light switches here in the hallway that turn on like you
know the one near the coffee maker and uh there's another light switch for the
bathroom which is quite nice you know okay but then beyond that everything
else is like one here and then like you
know another light here and then one here and then one here you have to like
run around and turn them all on it's the most bizarre thing in the world to me so
tomorrow they're going to have actually I should just uh show you guys the
itinerary cuz this might be interesting to you who knows I don't know uh so
tomorrow there's Breakfast NVIDIA presentation in the Grand Ballroom so
the Gameworks team and some special guests then there's lunch with round T
discussion and Hands-On gaming I'm not sure what they'll be showing us exactly
then there's a field trip to a surprise location there you go you guys can just
check this out I don't care uh and then the Montreal Canadian hockey game so
that's I'm pretty stoked for that then the next day Friday there's more presentations with even more extra they
call these guests extra special is that is that a jab at the special guests you
got to wonder about that all right then we've got lunch and Hands-On gaming with
new technologies as well as panel discussion Q&A interviews dinner and
then that's pretty much it so uh there's
a bunch of more information there I guess I'll show you guys how I've got
things set up in the old hotel room so I got my Invidia stuff there I've got an
NVIDIA fley blanket as well as I mean
not that they're generalizing about Canadians or anything but a touque with
speakers in it so for nerdy Canadians um
there's a Moto X I'm actually working on a review for this I really like it so
far it's it's a good size it's got a nice grippy back good curve shape to it
really like it uh okay Google now I think you're useless and uh you Pro see
look it didn't even work okay Google Now hey okay Google now wake up yeah not
not that impressed with the whole voice control thing got my laptop set up up
haven't decided whether or not I'm going to do any live streaming from here or not but I have the live gamer portable
as well as a micro HDMI cable for the xa20 camera which is what I'm using now
see that guys I apologize for the audio being kind of horrible the mic's facing
the wrong way so I got my USB hub never leave on without it my MP3 player also
known as my old iPhone that runs iOS 7 which makes everything slow as all balls
I mean check that out whoa wow press the lock button Holy balls okay hold on I'm
going to unlock that okay so unlocked okay okay so there's something okay
check this out uh yeah I trust this computer it's okay so check this out
Gmail feel free to just like go away from the video and come back oh for
crying out loud well that's how long it took to even figure out if it had an internet connection takes forever here's
my little pocket router they don't even give you wired Connections in the rooms here you just have to use the wireless
fortunately it's not that bad then there's the bad which has more Tech junk
spread out all over it USB cable um
momentum on ears got my inar Pro steel
series got my HTC1 which is still my daily driver phone and then I got my
YouTube bag ah yes this is cool so this is probably one of the cooler swag items
that I've seen everyone was wearing them at dinner tonight this is the Lan hoodie
2.0 and it's got like cord Locking
System thumb drive pocket inside all kinds of hidden something hidden waist
pocket for a mouse seriously they expect you to put a mouse in your hoodie I mean
I think you could put anything in that pocket but here maybe I'll model it you
guys actually this is undoubtedly one of the cooler swag items I've ever
encountered so you've got a couple of options for the sleeves it has built-in
gloves which is pretty cool or you can tuck those away and just put your thumb
through the sleeve I've never actually owned thumb sleeve hoodies before cuz I
always thought they were kind of for like I don't know goth girls in high
school at least when when I was young that was that was the case but at any
rate I'm not sure how practical all of the pouches and what not are on here I
mean this zipper is not not of particularly high quality and actually
moving it back and forth is is extremely
difficult but I'm sure they had something in mind the manufacturer of
this garment had some sort of way that they expected you to use this and I just
can't understand it but at any rate you can put something in there and then uh
you know it's funny AMD has has an event that they're doing in Montreal at the
same time I was thinking about going and checking it out apparently they're
showing off 290x um and some like performance
numbers and stuff but I figure I'm here on NVIDIA's dime so it's probably best
to sort of stick with attending their event there's another little pouch right
here that is an extremely small pocket I guess you could put like uh I don't
think you could even put a condom in there maybe maybe you could put a condom
in there so if you wanted somewhere to keep a condom that you didn't want anyone to find it there's also a
slightly bigger one here that looks like more like you could put a cell phone or
maybe a mouse I don't know whatever they're labeling these things whatever
you can fit a hand in there then you got your normal Pockets you know we actually
have a video upcoming for a Scott evest product uh that's like a tech vest so I
think it's kind of a similar idea to something like this really oh okay so
here's another another little zipper that these zippers are a little bit
sticky I think it's going to take a while to break this in there's another
little tiny pouch there there there must be that that must be for something so on
the right thumb drive pocket
okay so thumb drive pocket is at least one of them so it's actually kind of
nice looking got some bright green NVIDIA stuff going on if I wanted to
look like even more of a walking billboard for tech companies I've got my
Patriot shirt on underneath it so over here we see the insides of some of these
Pockets lined with NVIDIA green we've also got some NVIDIA logos inside the
hood itself which looks a little something like this and on the other
side we've got ah yes this pocket is accessible with the zipper here and then
I think that's uh getting pretty close to the end of it there's like a headphone wire management thing here by
the look of things and then I think there's uh there's a d-ring for Keys
apparently somewhere I don't know where that is okay well without further Ado I
guess we'll uh get some sleep and see you guys
tomorrow so Mr shro over here tells me
that uh he'd really prefer if I if I didn't Jack his style and and also
stream the video event I have to admit this is a pretty good idea one one that
I did I did actually have myself what are you guys using for HP my
cap a what oh shut up you're using a a PC for
that no no no no no black magic intensity
shuttle okay cool yes how do you like this one by the way does it blue screen
like it's pretty terrible yeah it's pretty terrible well a live game rep
portable yeah oh a portable one I haven't seen one of those yet uh no live
game rep portable Med product I have it upstairs I should
show it to it's just a HDM USB
HDM actually works not a not a steaming
pile of poop PCI we have the
uh live gamer HD we have the live gamer HD yeah it's basically a live gamer HD
but USB and it's awesome that sounds
like a good yeah you
guys but yeah I mean it was more to do with consideration for the other people
in the room's Wi-Fi connections during the the show if everyone was streaming
out of here then you know those people they would suffer right they would that
sucks for them so I streamed quite a lot of the
event today but uh I think I'll take a moment here to just cover what I thought
were sort of the the key points um unlike AMD's event where they really
dropped a bombshell with mantle NVIDIA was more focused on a lot of things that
that they already have and then some enhancements they've made to some of the
things that they already have so they talked a lot about game developer relationships I mean AMD's whole
messaging at their GPU 14 event was AMD is gaming and uh they were talking about
their extremely strong developer relations so NVIDIA is quick to react to
that you know putting up slides of all the game devs that they work with and
all the all the support that they give to them and you know hey it's like guys
it's you know it's not like we're not doing this and it's not like we haven't been doing this for ages with the the
way it's meant to be played program um one of the things that they showed off
that was really cool was they talked a lot about crossplatform um in terms of
operation and in terms of development tools so they showed Dev tools running
not only on Windows but also on Linux and they were demonstrating things that
they could do in terms of real-time analysis of what's being rendered in
within the Linux based developer tools so that was incredibly cool they also
committed ongoing support for Linux but particularly with Steam OS so by the
time Steam OS launches they're saying yeah we're going to be ready to support
it in a big way so that's extremely exciting I know many gamers have been
trying to get away from direct X and Windows
and and all those things that um it feels like are holding us back at this
point in many ways if you talk to certain game devs I've spent some time
talking to Chris Roberts at the at the MD event I was at and I mean he didn't
have any kind words to say about direct X neither did um the gentle who was
there from EA so very exciting times and
NVIDIA seems to be fully on board to support that uh they showed off project
Logan so if you guys check it out it's their uh it's their face Works demo
where they have an extremely realistic looking head that you can have them make
different facial expressions and uh very
very realistic looking they then revealed that it was running on an
upcoming Tegra so uh singled digigit
wattage power usage and running this extremely demanding looking demo uh to
the point where it's like people who are I guess calling me out for saying that
this will will be the last generation of game consoles that needs to exist in
like this large bulky plugs into your TV form guys it's happening I mean NVIDIA's
upcoming Tegra processors are going to make the current generation or even the
Next Generation consoles look
like nothing special so extremely
exciting um there were a couple new things that they did talk about so Flex
UniFi GPU physx is an evolution from
their existing GPU physics which can be used for um you know calculations for
colliding bodies or it can be used for fluid simulation or particle simulation
or whatever else well what Flex allows is for those different physx elements to
interact with each other so they showed a couple of cool demos including one
with water balloons where they were popping them by clicking on them I didn't think that was that impressive
but they had a couple other ones where they were throwing water at um at a
large grouping of of Hardbody objects and then watching them kind of float
around and bounce around off of each other so we're we're looking at fizx
being able to have not only sort of one
thing going on at a time so to speak but having multiple aspects of the physics
calculations that are being performed by the game um interact with each other so
that's extremely exciting and then the next thing they showed off with GI Works
which I joked during the live stream I was actually live streaming during a lot of the event gastrointestinal Works no
not at all it's Global illumination so what this is is it is an elegant way top
one make your way take some of the work out of what the game devs are doing they
showed realtime Demos in Unreal Engine of how you can adjust the the the finess
you can adjust the intensity of um the
way that the light bounces off so you can either have stronger Shadows or weaker Shadows or you can have shadows
in under large bodies like cars or even down to minute details like under the
door handles of cars and they even
showed a demo where it was uh I guess it was Museum simulator 2014 anyway they
had dinosaur bones and they were able to demonstrate lighting them in very unique
ways so they had some TVs with NVIDIA logos that were kind of casting a green
glow over everything and then they had lights that were actually within the
room itself casting different lighting effects on it and what it is as instead
of programming a bunch of light sources into the scene Game devs can instead
just rely on this real-time Global illumination so that is lights bouncing
off of surfaces the way that they realistically should to provide realistic lighting without faking it at
any stage so that's uh that's extremely exciting as well so I think that's going
to be pretty much it for my part one Vlog of this event tomorrow we're
expecting some extremely exciting stuff to happen so uh stay tuned I'll probably
live stream tomorrow and uh for now I'm
off to tour the Ubisoft Studio but I had to sign this NDA before I go so I can't
uh can't tell you guys about that and then I'm also heading to the hockey game tonight so peace out as always don't
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videos another Minor Detail NVIDIA's holiday bundles have been announced so
typically in the past we've seen maybe one game or a discount or a free-to-play
bundle or something like that on NVIDIA graphics cards uh not so this time
around we're getting Splinter Cell Blacklist Batman Arkham Origins and
Assassin's Creed Black Flag with GTX
770s 780s and Titans so you're going to get three games and $100 off in NVIDIA
Shield making that a 199 uh piece of Hardware to augment your
graphics card experience now $100 off
Shield 199 I can guarantee they're not making much if any margin on that so is
it a desperation move I've heard rumors that a shield isn't moving as well as
NVIDIA would like or is it just an attempt to get more Shields out there so
people can get them in their hands and talk about how great they are uh around
the holiday season and hopefully spur on some sales later hard to say what
exactly the strategy is there but it's probably not a bad idea either way and
then the second down tier is going to be GTX 760 GTX 680 670 660 Ti and 660 and
that Splinter Cell Blacklist as well as Assassin's Creed Black Flag and $50 off
and in viia
Shield one thing I think we can all agree on looking at this is It's shots
fired at the never SLE settle bundles that AMD has been running lately