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ghetto Shield the ghetto Shield device
has now been completed so we'd love to give you guys a tour of our setup but
first slick why don't you walk through the process of creating the ghetto
Shield okay so what we used for the metal on the back was actually just an
old side panel that I had laying around and just grabbed a Dremel you can do it
with like Snips or a Dremel or fact I think we recommend you do it with Snips
probably do it with Snips um just cut out a shape for us the easiest one was
like a really simple tea it will probably be the easiest if you just do a
really simple tea um you'll be able to just hand bend it so don't even worry
about that it's ghetto for a reason so don't worry about that yeah just Chuck it in a Vie and then use that to hold it
in in place while you just bend it while you bend it and then at the at the
almost same time you can use epoxy um you epoxy it to the battery pack so that
you still have full functionality of your controller and you can just buy
another battery pack insert so you can use this just normally for your Xbox or
you can use it to be the ghetto Shield so then once you have all that bent in
place you're going to have grab some velcro cut a strip that's about the
length of the te on the back and then just put the gritty side on here and the
fuzzy side on here so if you want you can use your phone case although
honestly I'd recommend another option we had was was getting like a throwaway
phone case so you can clip the phone in and out but then if you use a case
anyway having the the fuzzy side of the velcro really isn't that bad I've had
this on my phone for like a week now while we've been working on this and it hasn't really bothered me that much so
yeah yeah so honestly the best if you wanted to use this a lot probably just
have a permanent phone case for it but it works this way as well okay so then
the app then the app so the app is called Splashtop you need it's free you
need the mobile version the mobile personal version on your phone and then
you need the streaming version on your desktop they're both free really easy to
install and don't come along with any adwar so that's actually quite nice and
then it is tuned more to work for 800 by
600 not Shield which is awesome resolution well we tried 12 1280 x 720
and it worked and it was somewhat playable if you're playing a game like a
driving game that doesn't really rely on Twitch reflexes but you're going to get flashed
for that okay well if you're playing like an arcade style casual driving game
um however for something like a shooter 800x 600 was much much more responsive
so we'll show you guys a real world demo of what that looks like so be say okay
hold on I'm going to go back so I'm actually controlling right now so through this dongle right here which is
just a regular Xbox 360 wireless dongle for PC if the game doesn't support full
screen Window mode it's not going to work with Splashtop it will it will you
just run Window mode and then you have stupid UI things which is annoying right
yeah okay you should probably find something that works full speeed window but it will work if you can at least run
it in windowed mode okay so let's go ahead and uh and sort of showcase it's
it's combat worthy now it should be noted that this is not a drop in
replacement for a shield shield has a custom UI for launching games uh you may
have noticed that our computer here has to be running at 800 by 600 in order to
get this working whereas Shield allows you to just stream from that desktop
without funking up all of your settings it doesn't have the same kind of battery
life as Shield um it doesn't have the same kind of battery life as Shield
you're just using the battery life of your phone and of course there's this
sort of whole clunky solution but there are some advantages number one is you
can use an NVIDIA or an AMD graphics card totally doesn't matter in fact even
for NVIDIA graphics cards you have to use Kepler with Shield whereas with this
you can use you use anything whatever just it's just grabbing the image that's
on your desktop it doesn't care what your graphics card is which is quite nice which is very cool so I'm actually
playing right now here I'm GNA go ahead and I'm gonna move over here so you guys
can actually see what the gameplay experience looks like somewhat here
we'll do a side-by-side comparison to show the latency which is actually quite
minimal in this setup so we have a fairly optimal game which is running
fulls screen windowed like we were talking about previously and then 800 by
600 it's it's pretty nice so the other
cool thing about our implementation is that um one of the advantages of Shield
is it has a really good Wireless solution well we're using Wireless AC
because the HTC1 happens to support wireless AC if you have a Galaxy S4 or
an HTC1 they both support this particular standard so we are able to
get pretty reasonable there you go there's a jump so you guys can see what
that looks like so we're able to get pretty reasonable throughput although
like I said before 1280 x 720 really
didn't perform well enough that I'd call it usable now I'm not a great uh
firstperson shooter player when it comes to controllers anyway but I think
there's some baddies coming here we go boom bo boom bo boom so disregard the
misses yeah assume that the misses are because I can't aim not because uh it's
too laggy to use because it actually isn't it's very cool so don't think of
this as a replacement for shield think of this as more
like a tester to see if you like it yeah
see if you like the idea instead of spending $300 spend $3 like including
the cost of the glue to make the thing and find out if it's even something that
you'd care about and it's it's kind of a fun little project it was fairly
entertaining to cut a side panel and strap it to a controller and play a
computer game on my phone and this all assumes that you actually have an Xbox
360 controller in the first place which not everyone will we figured there's
probably a way to get it working with a wired one using an on the-go cable that
that will work but uh you will only be able to play Android games for now on
here on here there's a new um thing of
streaming software I forgot to point out that sound is streamed as well from the
PC and you can have it you can have it come through the PC and you're playing
on here so if you're in the same room and you have a knce sound system or you
can just push it to the phone or there's there's tons of different settings
there's another program that people are oh I guess person it's a single guy is
working on I can't remember the name of it right now and don't have it brought up but it is going to be able to send uh
controller input through the phone to the computer and do the same type of De
so eventually you'll be able to have a wired controller plugged into your phone
through an OTG cable and then be able to play games without using this um
somewhat fairly difficult to use dongle
so there you go guys that is Project
ghetto Shield thank you slick for making this possible no problem it's actually
kind of cool it works surprisingly well I'm happy with it don't forget to
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