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Intel, and Steel Series. So guys, we're
here in the hall of NVIDIA PCs where we've got a bunch of games that they're
showcasing. A lot of these are current games. So technologies like TXA, Fizz,
3D Vision, all that stuff is being shown off here. So there's Splinter Cell,
Blacklist, there's Hawkins, there's uh XCOM, the Bureau, whole bunch of really
cool stuff. I heard a little bird tell me that there might be something to do
with Batman Arkham Origins. You know, I don't know, something something about
that sort of later on in the show. So, guys, stay tuned for that because much
like the previous Batman's, I'm expecting this one to feature pretty
much the entire slew of NVIDIA gaming
technologies. So, lo and behold, NVIDIA
Shield. So, we've got Dishonored, Borderlands 2, Batman Arkham City, and
Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim, all being streamed to Shield gamers who are here
demoing the device for the first time. So, there's a whole bunch of Falcon
Northwest gaming machines powering these. And then the routers are obviously hidden, but uh here, maybe we
can get one of these gamers to give us their impressions. I'm blindsiding you
here, man. How's the latency on this? Uh
latency, what does that mean? Uh the latency would refer to like do you feel
like you're playing wirelessly off of another device or does it just feel like
you're playing on it? Uh well I feel like I'm just playing on it well because
it's just it just connects to the monitor. It's it's own console. So it's
pretty cool. The graphics are great especially when you put it on the TV. It
looks almost the same. There's no like um pixel distortion or anything compared
to that. Fantastic. So there you go guys. He had no idea that was coming.
That was definitely spur of the moment. Uh, I'm personally, since I already have
a Shield, more interested in these NVIDIA bean bag chairs. These things are
awesome. Look at this. I definitely need to get my hands on a couple of these
somehow. I mean, I think the coolest thing about that is that a completely
non-technical person who doesn't even understand that it's not the Shield
streaming to the TV or the computer, it's the other way around. He has no
idea that it's just like wirelessly beaming an H.264 264 encoded video
stream to the Shield itself is phenomenally cool because it speaks to
the seamlessness of the experience. I mean, us nerds are going to benchmark it
and we're going to measure the latency and we're going to do this and we're going to do that. But when it comes to
an actual gamer sitting in a beanag chair enjoying the game, that's the
experience. Very cool. So, we're chilling on the couch
with Brett from NVIDIA. It looks like the very robust Wi-Fi solution that's
built into Shield is capable of doing more than just streaming games from your
PC. So, what have you got running here right now? This is Skiing Fred. This is
one of our titles we have on Tech Zone. Um, so we're actually showing here on
Shield Sking Skiing Fred being streamed to this TV over here. The only core that
I have on this device is just for power. It's streaming to that dongle over there
over Wi-Fi Direct over Mircast technology. So, as you can see, I can
take my Shield on the go, come home, quickly throw this up with a touch of a
button up onto the screen and play all my favorite Android games, watch movies,
Netflix, everything onto the TV. So, using Wi-Fi, basically the idea is now
you can play PC games on this or you can play Android games on that and the whole
thing just is Exactly. It's a It's an all-in-one entertainment console. Nobody
knows what anything does anymore. It all kind of does everything. It's absolutely
crazy. So, thank you very much for showing us this, checking this out.
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And thanks again for showing us this. No problem. Thanks.