1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:07,040 Linus Tech Tips coverage of PAX 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital, 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,960 Intel, and Steel Series. So guys, we're 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:12,240 here in the hall of NVIDIA PCs where we've got a bunch of games that they're 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:18,080 showcasing. A lot of these are current games. So technologies like TXA, Fizz, 5 00:00:15,679 --> 00:00:22,240 3D Vision, all that stuff is being shown off here. So there's Splinter Cell, 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:26,480 Blacklist, there's Hawkins, there's uh XCOM, the Bureau, whole bunch of really 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:30,160 cool stuff. I heard a little bird tell me that there might be something to do 8 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,600 with Batman Arkham Origins. You know, I don't know, something something about 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,520 that sort of later on in the show. So, guys, stay tuned for that because much 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:43,559 like the previous Batman's, I'm expecting this one to feature pretty 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:46,960 much the entire slew of NVIDIA gaming 12 00:00:43,559 --> 00:00:48,719 technologies. So, lo and behold, NVIDIA 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:53,360 Shield. So, we've got Dishonored, Borderlands 2, Batman Arkham City, and 14 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:58,559 Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim, all being streamed to Shield gamers who are here 15 00:00:56,399 --> 00:01:02,079 demoing the device for the first time. So, there's a whole bunch of Falcon 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:06,880 Northwest gaming machines powering these. And then the routers are obviously hidden, but uh here, maybe we 17 00:01:05,439 --> 00:01:11,920 can get one of these gamers to give us their impressions. I'm blindsiding you 18 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,920 here, man. How's the latency on this? Uh 19 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:17,200 latency, what does that mean? Uh the latency would refer to like do you feel 20 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:20,560 like you're playing wirelessly off of another device or does it just feel like 21 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:23,280 you're playing on it? Uh well I feel like I'm just playing on it well because 22 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:28,000 it's just it just connects to the monitor. It's it's own console. So it's 23 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:31,920 pretty cool. The graphics are great especially when you put it on the TV. It 24 00:01:29,759 --> 00:01:36,799 looks almost the same. There's no like um pixel distortion or anything compared 25 00:01:34,479 --> 00:01:40,720 to that. Fantastic. So there you go guys. He had no idea that was coming. 26 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,680 That was definitely spur of the moment. Uh, I'm personally, since I already have 27 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:48,479 a Shield, more interested in these NVIDIA bean bag chairs. These things are 28 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:52,560 awesome. Look at this. I definitely need to get my hands on a couple of these 29 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:57,680 somehow. I mean, I think the coolest thing about that is that a completely 30 00:01:55,040 --> 00:02:02,159 non-technical person who doesn't even understand that it's not the Shield 31 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:06,079 streaming to the TV or the computer, it's the other way around. He has no 32 00:02:04,159 --> 00:02:11,200 idea that it's just like wirelessly beaming an H.264 264 encoded video 33 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:14,800 stream to the Shield itself is phenomenally cool because it speaks to 34 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:18,080 the seamlessness of the experience. I mean, us nerds are going to benchmark it 35 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:22,959 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 36 00:02:20,959 --> 00:02:26,360 an actual gamer sitting in a beanag chair enjoying the game, that's the 37 00:02:24,879 --> 00:02:30,800 experience. Very cool. So, we're chilling on the couch 38 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:35,200 with Brett from NVIDIA. It looks like the very robust Wi-Fi solution that's 39 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,160 built into Shield is capable of doing more than just streaming games from your 40 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:42,239 PC. So, what have you got running here right now? This is Skiing Fred. This is 41 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:46,319 one of our titles we have on Tech Zone. Um, so we're actually showing here on 42 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:50,800 Shield Sking Skiing Fred being streamed to this TV over here. The only core that 43 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:54,640 I have on this device is just for power. It's streaming to that dongle over there 44 00:02:52,239 --> 00:02:58,640 over Wi-Fi Direct over Mircast technology. So, as you can see, I can 45 00:02:56,959 --> 00:03:01,519 take my Shield on the go, come home, quickly throw this up with a touch of a 46 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:07,120 button up onto the screen and play all my favorite Android games, watch movies, 47 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:11,680 Netflix, everything onto the TV. So, using Wi-Fi, basically the idea is now 48 00:03:09,519 --> 00:03:16,159 you can play PC games on this or you can play Android games on that and the whole 49 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:20,080 thing just is Exactly. It's a It's an all-in-one entertainment console. Nobody 50 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:23,920 knows what anything does anymore. It all kind of does everything. It's absolutely 51 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:27,680 crazy. So, thank you very much for showing us this, checking this out. 52 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:32,000 Guys, don't miss any of our PAX Prime 2013 coverage. Huge thanks to our 53 00:03:29,599 --> 00:03:35,440 sponsors, Western Digital, Intel, and Steel Series for allowing us to be here. 54 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,239 And thanks again for showing us this. No problem. Thanks.