NVIDIA Conference Vlog Part 1 -The Way It's Meant To Be Played 2013
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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all right well it's uh I guess night one of NVIDIA's the way it's meant to be
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played 2013 event I guess we'll start with the tour of the hotel room so I'm
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staying at the Marriot and it seems to me like every hotel ever has all gotten
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together and conspire to make it as difficult as possible to light up your
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room so there's the light switches here in the hallway that turn on like you
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know the one near the coffee maker and uh there's another light switch for the
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bathroom which is quite nice you know okay but then beyond that everything
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else is like one here and then like you
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know another light here and then one here and then one here you have to like
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run around and turn them all on it's the most bizarre thing in the world to me so
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tomorrow they're going to have actually I should just uh show you guys the
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itinerary cuz this might be interesting to you who knows I don't know uh so
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tomorrow there's Breakfast NVIDIA presentation in the Grand Ballroom so
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the Gameworks team and some special guests then there's lunch with round T
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discussion and Hands-On gaming I'm not sure what they'll be showing us exactly
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then there's a field trip to a surprise location there you go you guys can just
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check this out I don't care uh and then the Montreal Canadian hockey game so
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that's I'm pretty stoked for that then the next day Friday there's more presentations with even more extra they
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call these guests extra special is that is that a jab at the special guests you
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got to wonder about that all right then we've got lunch and Hands-On gaming with
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new technologies as well as panel discussion Q&A interviews dinner and
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then that's pretty much it so uh there's
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a bunch of more information there I guess I'll show you guys how I've got
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things set up in the old hotel room so I got my Invidia stuff there I've got an
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NVIDIA fley blanket as well as I mean
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not that they're generalizing about Canadians or anything but a touque with
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speakers in it so for nerdy Canadians um
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there's a Moto X I'm actually working on a review for this I really like it so
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far it's it's a good size it's got a nice grippy back good curve shape to it
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really like it uh okay Google now I think you're useless and uh you Pro see
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look it didn't even work okay Google Now hey okay Google now wake up yeah not
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not that impressed with the whole voice control thing got my laptop set up up
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haven't decided whether or not I'm going to do any live streaming from here or not but I have the live gamer portable
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as well as a micro HDMI cable for the xa20 camera which is what I'm using now
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see that guys I apologize for the audio being kind of horrible the mic's facing
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the wrong way so I got my USB hub never leave on without it my MP3 player also
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known as my old iPhone that runs iOS 7 which makes everything slow as all balls
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I mean check that out whoa wow press the lock button Holy balls okay hold on I'm
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going to unlock that okay so unlocked okay okay so there's something okay
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check this out uh yeah I trust this computer it's okay so check this out
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Gmail feel free to just like go away from the video and come back oh for
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crying out loud well that's how long it took to even figure out if it had an internet connection takes forever here's
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my little pocket router they don't even give you wired Connections in the rooms here you just have to use the wireless
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fortunately it's not that bad then there's the bad which has more Tech junk
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spread out all over it USB cable um
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momentum on ears got my inar Pro steel
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series got my HTC1 which is still my daily driver phone and then I got my
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YouTube bag ah yes this is cool so this is probably one of the cooler swag items
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that I've seen everyone was wearing them at dinner tonight this is the Lan hoodie
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2.0 and it's got like cord Locking
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System thumb drive pocket inside all kinds of hidden something hidden waist
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pocket for a mouse seriously they expect you to put a mouse in your hoodie I mean
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I think you could put anything in that pocket but here maybe I'll model it you
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guys actually this is undoubtedly one of the cooler swag items I've ever
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encountered so you've got a couple of options for the sleeves it has built-in
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gloves which is pretty cool or you can tuck those away and just put your thumb
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through the sleeve I've never actually owned thumb sleeve hoodies before cuz I
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always thought they were kind of for like I don't know goth girls in high
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school at least when when I was young that was that was the case but at any
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rate I'm not sure how practical all of the pouches and what not are on here I
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mean this zipper is not not of particularly high quality and actually
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moving it back and forth is is extremely
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difficult but I'm sure they had something in mind the manufacturer of
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this garment had some sort of way that they expected you to use this and I just
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can't understand it but at any rate you can put something in there and then uh
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you know it's funny AMD has has an event that they're doing in Montreal at the
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same time I was thinking about going and checking it out apparently they're
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showing off 290x um and some like performance
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numbers and stuff but I figure I'm here on NVIDIA's dime so it's probably best
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to sort of stick with attending their event there's another little pouch right
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here that is an extremely small pocket I guess you could put like uh I don't
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think you could even put a condom in there maybe maybe you could put a condom
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in there so if you wanted somewhere to keep a condom that you didn't want anyone to find it there's also a
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slightly bigger one here that looks like more like you could put a cell phone or
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maybe a mouse I don't know whatever they're labeling these things whatever
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you can fit a hand in there then you got your normal Pockets you know we actually
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have a video upcoming for a Scott evest product uh that's like a tech vest so I
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think it's kind of a similar idea to something like this really oh okay so
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here's another another little zipper that these zippers are a little bit
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sticky I think it's going to take a while to break this in there's another
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little tiny pouch there there there must be that that must be for something so on
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the right thumb drive pocket
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okay so thumb drive pocket is at least one of them so it's actually kind of
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nice looking got some bright green NVIDIA stuff going on if I wanted to
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look like even more of a walking billboard for tech companies I've got my
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Patriot shirt on underneath it so over here we see the insides of some of these
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Pockets lined with NVIDIA green we've also got some NVIDIA logos inside the
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hood itself which looks a little something like this and on the other
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side we've got ah yes this pocket is accessible with the zipper here and then
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I think that's uh getting pretty close to the end of it there's like a headphone wire management thing here by
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the look of things and then I think there's uh there's a d-ring for Keys
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apparently somewhere I don't know where that is okay well without further Ado I
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guess we'll uh get some sleep and see you guys
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tomorrow so Mr shro over here tells me
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that uh he'd really prefer if I if I didn't Jack his style and and also
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stream the video event I have to admit this is a pretty good idea one one that
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I did I did actually have myself what are you guys using for HP my
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cap a what oh shut up you're using a a PC for
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that no no no no no black magic intensity
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shuttle okay cool yes how do you like this one by the way does it blue screen
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like it's pretty terrible yeah it's pretty terrible well a live game rep
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portable yeah oh a portable one I haven't seen one of those yet uh no live
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game rep portable Med product I have it upstairs I should
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show it to it's just a HDM USB
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HDM actually works not a not a steaming
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pile of poop PCI we have the
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uh live gamer HD we have the live gamer HD yeah it's basically a live gamer HD
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but USB and it's awesome that sounds
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like a good yeah you
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guys but yeah I mean it was more to do with consideration for the other people
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in the room's Wi-Fi connections during the the show if everyone was streaming
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out of here then you know those people they would suffer right they would that
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sucks for them so I streamed quite a lot of the
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event today but uh I think I'll take a moment here to just cover what I thought
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were sort of the the key points um unlike AMD's event where they really
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dropped a bombshell with mantle NVIDIA was more focused on a lot of things that
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that they already have and then some enhancements they've made to some of the
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things that they already have so they talked a lot about game developer relationships I mean AMD's whole
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messaging at their GPU 14 event was AMD is gaming and uh they were talking about
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their extremely strong developer relations so NVIDIA is quick to react to
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that you know putting up slides of all the game devs that they work with and
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all the all the support that they give to them and you know hey it's like guys
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it's you know it's not like we're not doing this and it's not like we haven't been doing this for ages with the the
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way it's meant to be played program um one of the things that they showed off
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that was really cool was they talked a lot about crossplatform um in terms of
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operation and in terms of development tools so they showed Dev tools running
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not only on Windows but also on Linux and they were demonstrating things that
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they could do in terms of real-time analysis of what's being rendered in
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within the Linux based developer tools so that was incredibly cool they also
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committed ongoing support for Linux but particularly with Steam OS so by the
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time Steam OS launches they're saying yeah we're going to be ready to support
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it in a big way so that's extremely exciting I know many gamers have been
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trying to get away from direct X and Windows
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and and all those things that um it feels like are holding us back at this
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point in many ways if you talk to certain game devs I've spent some time
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talking to Chris Roberts at the at the MD event I was at and I mean he didn't
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have any kind words to say about direct X neither did um the gentle who was
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there from EA so very exciting times and
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NVIDIA seems to be fully on board to support that uh they showed off project
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Logan so if you guys check it out it's their uh it's their face Works demo
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where they have an extremely realistic looking head that you can have them make
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different facial expressions and uh very
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very realistic looking they then revealed that it was running on an
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upcoming Tegra so uh singled digigit
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wattage power usage and running this extremely demanding looking demo uh to
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the point where it's like people who are I guess calling me out for saying that
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this will will be the last generation of game consoles that needs to exist in
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like this large bulky plugs into your TV form guys it's happening I mean NVIDIA's
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upcoming Tegra processors are going to make the current generation or even the
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Next Generation consoles look
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like nothing special so extremely
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exciting um there were a couple new things that they did talk about so Flex
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UniFi GPU physx is an evolution from
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their existing GPU physics which can be used for um you know calculations for
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colliding bodies or it can be used for fluid simulation or particle simulation
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or whatever else well what Flex allows is for those different physx elements to
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interact with each other so they showed a couple of cool demos including one
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with water balloons where they were popping them by clicking on them I didn't think that was that impressive
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but they had a couple other ones where they were throwing water at um at a
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large grouping of of Hardbody objects and then watching them kind of float
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around and bounce around off of each other so we're we're looking at fizx
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being able to have not only sort of one
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thing going on at a time so to speak but having multiple aspects of the physics
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calculations that are being performed by the game um interact with each other so
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that's extremely exciting and then the next thing they showed off with GI Works
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which I joked during the live stream I was actually live streaming during a lot of the event gastrointestinal Works no
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not at all it's Global illumination so what this is is it is an elegant way top
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one make your way take some of the work out of what the game devs are doing they
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showed realtime Demos in Unreal Engine of how you can adjust the the the finess
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you can adjust the intensity of um the
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way that the light bounces off so you can either have stronger Shadows or weaker Shadows or you can have shadows
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in under large bodies like cars or even down to minute details like under the
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door handles of cars and they even
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showed a demo where it was uh I guess it was Museum simulator 2014 anyway they
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had dinosaur bones and they were able to demonstrate lighting them in very unique
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ways so they had some TVs with NVIDIA logos that were kind of casting a green
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glow over everything and then they had lights that were actually within the
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room itself casting different lighting effects on it and what it is as instead
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of programming a bunch of light sources into the scene Game devs can instead
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just rely on this real-time Global illumination so that is lights bouncing
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off of surfaces the way that they realistically should to provide realistic lighting without faking it at
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any stage so that's uh that's extremely exciting as well so I think that's going
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to be pretty much it for my part one Vlog of this event tomorrow we're
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expecting some extremely exciting stuff to happen so uh stay tuned I'll probably
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live stream tomorrow and uh for now I'm
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off to tour the Ubisoft Studio but I had to sign this NDA before I go so I can't
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uh can't tell you guys about that and then I'm also heading to the hockey game tonight so peace out as always don't
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videos another Minor Detail NVIDIA's holiday bundles have been announced so
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typically in the past we've seen maybe one game or a discount or a free-to-play
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bundle or something like that on NVIDIA graphics cards uh not so this time
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around we're getting Splinter Cell Blacklist Batman Arkham Origins and
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Assassin's Creed Black Flag with GTX
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770s 780s and Titans so you're going to get three games and $100 off in NVIDIA
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Shield making that a 199 uh piece of Hardware to augment your
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graphics card experience now $100 off
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Shield 199 I can guarantee they're not making much if any margin on that so is
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it a desperation move I've heard rumors that a shield isn't moving as well as
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NVIDIA would like or is it just an attempt to get more Shields out there so
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people can get them in their hands and talk about how great they are uh around
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the holiday season and hopefully spur on some sales later hard to say what
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exactly the strategy is there but it's probably not a bad idea either way and
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then the second down tier is going to be GTX 760 GTX 680 670 660 Ti and 660 and
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that Splinter Cell Blacklist as well as Assassin's Creed Black Flag and $50 off
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and in viia
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Shield one thing I think we can all agree on looking at this is It's shots
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fired at the never SLE settle bundles that AMD has been running lately