NVIDIA Project Shield Hands On Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is
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powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted
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storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner
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is guys we're hands on with Project Shield this is NVIDIA's new handheld
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gaming system based on Android based on the Tegra processing technology and we
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are going to Showcase what I think on the internets right now is the biggest
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Buzz about this particular little gaming console because we've all got phones at
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this point that we carry around we can play games on a touchcreen but where do
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you get the integrated uh the integrated controller and where do you get the
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ability to stream from a GeForce graphics card powered PC so sorry what
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was your name again James James is going to show us how this technology works
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with a live demo yes this is a you know as a said already unprecedented use case
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no one's done this before we all have really powerful PCS at our homes and our
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PC Gamers anyway and we want to be able to play that more than just sitting on
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our desk so here you'll be able to connect through this and the picture
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will be rendered on your PC and then beamed over as h.264 video onto the uh
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NVIDIA Shield handheld so the interface is actually very simple you can see you
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just press the mid button here and uh now you can see which PCS you can pair
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to here we have Jensen's PC our CEOs thank you for donating that Jensen and
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we just connect to it and it says it's connected now you have this very very
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simple interface where you can select all of your most favorite PC games
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imagine playing Battlefield 3 you know sitting on the couch instead of you know
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tied to your computer desk so we can launch for example the Speed Most
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Wanted and uh over so can I get you to explain something really quick this
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cable coming out of the back of the unit that is not anything to do with the
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gaming experience you're having here screen is that correct we're at CS it's
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a lot of Wi-Fi noise so we to make sure we have good uh good reception we're
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just going with Ethernet right now but we can do this wirelessly at home that's
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the intended use case at home you're going to be using a Wi-Fi connection and
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so long as you have a pretty good router and uh a pretty up- to- dat graphics
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card you know the latency is going to be very good so in terms of ergonomics It's
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s I would I would consider it to be sort of a good fit between being able to put
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your ring fingers right up under the handle here so that you can easily
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manage it with smaller hands I think the intended use is not just the traditional
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audience of the hardcore Gamers that NVIDIA is catered to but I would expect kids to be using something like this
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this will be so much more powerful that I mean especially someone like I mean
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I've got a young kid I'd much rather get him something like this where he can
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leverage the power P PC that I already have in my house I already bought it why
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am I buying a game console that's not going to take advantage of it right so
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you know what you can use it like that but you look at how long these handles are your hands are actually
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significantly bigger than my own so I'd like you to just hold it there and show
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them how you can adjust your hand backwards on it so that you can easily
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reach the controls regardless of the size of your hands the button layout is
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pretty simple so for those of you who like the SNES controller you're going to
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be able to use it just like that for those of you who like a more modern controller you can use it with the Dual
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analog sticks there's the two shoulder buttons up on each side so you've got a
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trigger as well as a regular shoulder button and a headphone jack up here
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we've got it plugged in using an Ethernet adapter and it looks like that
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is is that a power connector as well so this is running off battery this is a
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this is a makeshift that bracket would develop just for the Cs show one exists
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so straight off there's an SD card slot micro HDMI and audio out so don't worry
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guys it's a lot more elegant than that uh these plates on the top are actually
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interchangeable so I haven't I have not whoa okay I don't know I broke
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it there we go I'm probably going the wrong way at this
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point so this green is running at what resolution 720 720p so this is an HD
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gaming experience I mean that makes it pretty much close to something like a
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retina display the size thre the density
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speakers are awesome in fact I can even feel the vibration of the unit itself in
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my hands does it have a built-in vibration or is that just the speakers
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just the sound that's very very cool so start and back button are integrated
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here and of course it is a full touch screen as well viewing angles I want to
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get you guys a look at that because you can see looking at the yellow of the car
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itself right there I'm just going to turn the volume down just oh there we go
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turn the that's veryy intuitive actually see I didn't know how to do this um I
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want you to see the yellow of the car as I tilted away from you so if you have a
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friend sitting next to you they want to look over your shoulder as is bound to
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happen with these kinds of really cool gadgets that other people want to check
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out they're going to be able to see it so um have I have we missed anything
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critical no I think you've covered it tell me about the battery life battery
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life we're looking about 5 to 10 hours of battery life playing a a Android
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based game but if you're playing with streaming PC that's going to last even
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longer because all you're doing is decoding video on the device uh all the
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heavy lifting has been done on the PC and I think I can speak for everyone
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when I say this is incredibly exciting but I'm actually even more excited for
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something like a Gen 2 gen 3 Gen 5 product where we're going to be looking
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at 1080P or even greater display resolutions we're going to be looking at
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the ability to I mean this is this is
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incredible this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship all right well thank you very
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much and a big thanks to NVIDIA for allowing us to get in here and get
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handson with Project Shield don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips don't miss
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any of our videos on CES 2013 and I'll see you guys next
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time