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at CES and video surprised everyone by announcing a cloud powered game streaming service dubbed GeForce now unlike online and other similar alternatives with GeForce now you aren't leasing a game library you're releasing a virtual GeForce powered computer in the cloud in many ways this can be considered the next evolution of Nvidia's ambitious great initiative from the last few years instead this time it has been opened up to other devices outside the shield environment the show coverage is possible thanks to Nvidia gigabyte fantex and NCI X basically you provide the games and NVIDIA provides the hardware horsepower to run them on any PC or Mac with a 25 megabits per second or faster internet connection all you need to do is sign up for the service get the GeForce now application and install your games up to one terabytes worth on the virtual gaming PC basically they aren't being installed onto your PC but on the drive in cloud the games themselves can be from any source it can be steam origin you play Gog or battlenet games once loaded the games will actually remain installed on your virtual PC in the cloud so no need to reinstall every time you want to play you also don't need to worry about patching game configuring and Driver updating as it handled automatically save games achievements and other settings are also automatically synchronized and available on any PC with GeForce now app and a fast-enough connection now while nvidia is claiming that the games will be running off gtx 1060 or GT x 1080 gaming pcs hosted in the cloud the service is obviously not going to run on actual gaming pcs you're just borrowing a tiny fraction of a percent of computing horsepower from one of invidious Pascal GP of powering data centers however the concept is pretty awesome even though output is limited to 1080p when we went hands-on with GeForce now and Nvidia suite at CES it performed equally well on both 8 small Dell XPS 11 a MacBook Air and an iMac unfortunately there was quite a bit of lag and some rendering issues since the hotels internet connection admittedly wasn't up to the task to provide enough bandwidth for all the devices in parallel we're already anxious to test this in a proper environment according to Nvidia there are 1 billion PC users who don't have a computer that is suitable for game as a result g-force now might be a perfect solution for those with underpowered laptops old obsolete desktops or just about any Mac computer ever made since they have never had a great selection of game titles available however perfect solutions are never free using the GeForce now service to instantly connect to a high performance gaming machine in the cloud is going to cost you a bit of money $25 will buy you 20 hours of game time on a gtx 1060 PowerPC or 10 hours on a GTX 1080 if you do the math that comes out to between a dollar and 25 cents to $2 and 25 cents per hour which is still pretty much cheaper than most other forms of entertainment in video we'll be offering free trials of both the GTX 1060 ng tix and 80 options so go add yourself to the early access waiting list if you want to give this new service a try sometime in March Nvidia also announced some further optimizations to GeForce experience application which includes the ability to stream live over Facebook's so all your friends can easily interact with a stream it also has better integration with ansel and 360 degree images and super resolution screenshots that can easily be shared over the social network so that's it for now but expect more from us as we continue to cover in video at CES 2017 I mean bar with hurricane axe thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in the next video