The FUTURE of Gaming!?
TechLinked
·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,217 words · ~6 min read
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what are you doing here i'm hosting i thought you were fired oh
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really really that's what you've got yeah no i'm here
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and we're hosting i'm doing the tech news cool tech news yesterday at gdc
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2019 google showed us all the future of
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gaming and guess what guys if you thought it was a box it's not it's a
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place a stadium or rather a stadia
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google stadia is a game streaming service that'll run on any pc running
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chrome any tv equipped with the chromecast or any mobile device with the
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app stadia will have virtually no local processing everything will run off of
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cloud machines powered by cpus and gpus custom built by AMD with the ability to
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stream up to 4k and 60fps what they will
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stream beyond assassin's creed and doom is still unclear as statey apparently
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runs on Linux in the vulcan API the giant question on everyone's mind
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however is latency the stadia controller will connect directly to the stadius
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servers via wi-fi instead of routing through your device and google says they
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developed a number of other ways to minimize lag on the back end but we
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obviously can't know for sure until the service launches digital foundry got
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some early testing done and found that latency is obviously higher than local
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gaming on pc and consoles and that isn't going to fly for intense multiplayer FPS
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games like anthem what my favorite game i hate anthem
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as is usually the case with giant unveilings like this one there was a lot
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of fanfare and not a lot of gritty details if stadia does what it says it
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can do it could be the start of a revolution in game streaming i might
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even throw on my gaming pc no that's not i'm tossing it it's gone different
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things it's not for us no NVIDIA also
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had a bunch of things to announce this week at gtc 2019 they're so full of
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themselves that they had to have their own conference ray tracing will be coming to regular
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old gtx graphics cards the gtx 10 and 16
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series gpus will be able to run a lower quality version of the technology once
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the update rolls out fancy rt cores or no rtx is also coming to more games
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including tomb raider finally remedy's upcoming game control and quake 2
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of all things it actually looks super cool and it's
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interesting as a showcase of what fancy lighting and textures can do even in low
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polygon environments the unity game engine is also adding rtx support as a
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built-in feature wow it's almost enough to make you believe in the glory of ray
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tracing i should probably pre-order it wait no yeah yeah pre-order let's do it
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you can't even pre-order i'm gonna i want it yeah vr headsets are kind kinda
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blah but the hp reverb seems to address some of the medium's problems it has two
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lcd panels with 2160 by 2160 pixels per
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eye compared to the 2160 by 1200 per eye
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resolution of the htc vive pro with a slightly larger field of view as well
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it'll be available in late april starting at 600 usd
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it also happens to look extremely similar to the oculus rift that is not
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the new oculus rift s that was also just announced the rift s is a 400 pc
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tethered headset that removes the need for external tracking cameras room scale
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vr that can be accomplished via built-in tracking it also has upgraded lenses and
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increased resolution but is still just 1280 by 1440 per eye and for some reason
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oculus reduced the refresh rate from 90 to 80 hertz
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no oculus that's you want higher refresh rates that's that's not how you do it
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yeah i think they're confused i think so too yeah now it's time for quick bits
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yeah below i will on to the quick bits
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let's go let's go so google stadia is out of the bag but
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microsoft has been working on their game streaming service project xcloud for a
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while a leaked internal email from xbox chief phil spencer to his team reveals
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that while google went big with the reveal the project xcloud team has a
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couple of months until e3 when they will go big 2019 will be the year of game
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streaming how much do you think i can get for my gaming pc don't keep your pc
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it's not for us yesterday Intel and the us department of
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energy announced aurora the world's first exa scale computer project running
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on xeon processors and Intel's z compute
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architecture once it goes live it could be the most powerful super computer in
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existence unless chyna beats them to it you never know what huawei's got up
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their sleeve has tricky guys epic games is continuing
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their onslaught of pc gaming announcements with the news that they've secured a bunch more of exclusive games
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for the epic game store including remedy's upcoming control and former
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playstation exclusive games heavy rain beyond two souls and detroit become
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human not sure how interested fortnite players are going to be in those titles
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but hey it's worth a shot you go tim sweeney digital illustrators who long
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for the feeling of a pen on paper now have a real option the moleskine paper
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tablet is a real paper sketchbook whose pen will transfer an artist drawings
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into adobe apps in real time the tech is cool but the stop motion style launch
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video is cooler wow now that's art wow
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wow and AMD has revealed they too are working on 3d stacking processors and
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RAM in a single package similar to Intel's foveros technology it makes it
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better because when you stack them it's better obviously totally you know stack
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bam all right that's enough of this episode of TechLinked or whatever it's called
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personally okay love you bye bye see ya
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bye see you later bye Colton bye i'm leaving