NVIDIA Shield - Real Gamer Experience & Wireless Miracast Streaming - PAX Prime 2013
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech Tips coverage of PAX 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital,
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Intel, and Steel Series. So guys, we're
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here in the hall of NVIDIA PCs where we've got a bunch of games that they're
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showcasing. A lot of these are current games. So technologies like TXA, Fizz,
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3D Vision, all that stuff is being shown off here. So there's Splinter Cell,
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Blacklist, there's Hawkins, there's uh XCOM, the Bureau, whole bunch of really
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cool stuff. I heard a little bird tell me that there might be something to do
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with Batman Arkham Origins. You know, I don't know, something something about
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that sort of later on in the show. So, guys, stay tuned for that because much
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like the previous Batman's, I'm expecting this one to feature pretty
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much the entire slew of NVIDIA gaming
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technologies. So, lo and behold, NVIDIA
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Shield. So, we've got Dishonored, Borderlands 2, Batman Arkham City, and
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Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim, all being streamed to Shield gamers who are here
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demoing the device for the first time. So, there's a whole bunch of Falcon
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Northwest gaming machines powering these. And then the routers are obviously hidden, but uh here, maybe we
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can get one of these gamers to give us their impressions. I'm blindsiding you
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here, man. How's the latency on this? Uh
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latency, what does that mean? Uh the latency would refer to like do you feel
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like you're playing wirelessly off of another device or does it just feel like
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you're playing on it? Uh well I feel like I'm just playing on it well because
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it's just it just connects to the monitor. It's it's own console. So it's
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pretty cool. The graphics are great especially when you put it on the TV. It
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looks almost the same. There's no like um pixel distortion or anything compared
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to that. Fantastic. So there you go guys. He had no idea that was coming.
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That was definitely spur of the moment. Uh, I'm personally, since I already have
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a Shield, more interested in these NVIDIA bean bag chairs. These things are
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awesome. Look at this. I definitely need to get my hands on a couple of these
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somehow. I mean, I think the coolest thing about that is that a completely
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non-technical person who doesn't even understand that it's not the Shield
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streaming to the TV or the computer, it's the other way around. He has no
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idea that it's just like wirelessly beaming an H.264 264 encoded video
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stream to the Shield itself is phenomenally cool because it speaks to
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the seamlessness of the experience. I mean, us nerds are going to benchmark it
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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
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an actual gamer sitting in a beanag chair enjoying the game, that's the
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experience. Very cool. So, we're chilling on the couch
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with Brett from NVIDIA. It looks like the very robust Wi-Fi solution that's
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built into Shield is capable of doing more than just streaming games from your
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PC. So, what have you got running here right now? This is Skiing Fred. This is
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one of our titles we have on Tech Zone. Um, so we're actually showing here on
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Shield Sking Skiing Fred being streamed to this TV over here. The only core that
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I have on this device is just for power. It's streaming to that dongle over there
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over Wi-Fi Direct over Mircast technology. So, as you can see, I can
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take my Shield on the go, come home, quickly throw this up with a touch of a
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button up onto the screen and play all my favorite Android games, watch movies,
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Netflix, everything onto the TV. So, using Wi-Fi, basically the idea is now
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you can play PC games on this or you can play Android games on that and the whole
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thing just is Exactly. It's a It's an all-in-one entertainment console. Nobody
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knows what anything does anymore. It all kind of does everything. It's absolutely
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crazy. So, thank you very much for showing us this, checking this out.
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Guys, don't miss any of our PAX Prime 2013 coverage. Huge thanks to our
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sponsors, Western Digital, Intel, and Steel Series for allowing us to be here.
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And thanks again for showing us this. No problem. Thanks.