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hola what's going on everybody I'm Noah from technobuffalo i'm at the nvidia booth here at Mobile World Congress checking out some of the demos running on the Tegra 2 2 port tablets being shut off the show the android honeycomb tablet take a look at some of the gaming demos on the motorola xoom which is going to hit verizon in the u.s. in just about a week or so let's check it out by the way this blows you should know that I obviously recovered the show for technobuffalo I'm also doing a little bit of work for in the video on their blog and they sponsored my trick over to Spain so you know I promise to be effective in my coverage but full disclosure thanks nvidia for the trip over here to Barcelona alright so we're going to take a look at some special games and I mean headed on sincerity these are really cool games that nvidia has been working on their titles you probably recognize but in video has been working with the game developers to come up with some Tegra optimized versions of these games and there's some really impressive stuff we're going to start out with fruit ninja Tegra HD version and that you may be familiar with fruit ninja incredibly popular game on some other platforms and you can see the detail in the fruit with the 3d effects and the shadowing the scratch marks left on the wall just I mean but just you know concentrate on the fruit for a second as it's flying up and downs that the roundness of the shapes and the shadowing and texture very very cool stuff all right next up is Riptide and after seeing this demo maybe want to blow off the rest of work and just play this game this looks like fun so again you can see it's a Tegra Tegra optimized version and you know just check everything out the 3d realism the water which is actually a physics engine that's rendering the water in real time you can see the game being played with the accelerometer sensors the gyroscope in the xoom tablet I'm the owner now at imagining I'm riding a jet ski but you know just very very cool stuff the gameplay is smooth it's fluid and you know just so much to look at the trees the buildings and the really really cool water effects there all right next up galaxy on fire too and again these are all Tegra optimized versions they're running on the motorola xoom which is a 10 inch screen if you're not familiar running Google's new Android 30 operating system known as honeycomb so I mean this one you know they all really could but this one speaks for itself when you when you just look at all the detail we're going to look at something gold action freeze you can rotate your spaceship in 3d you can zoom in and out to get close in the detail and then there's this little trick here where we've switched into the way this game looks on a competitive platform you might have heard of it's called the ipad so if you check out the well just check out the level of detail or lack thereof on the spaceship and now we can go back and this is how it looks in the Tegra optimized version and again you know rotating in 3d all the detail the texture of the i miss i want to say metal but i don't know at galaxy on fire that might be some kind of carbon nanotube composite body or something i don't know but if you look at the texture that flames everything on the ship just incredible and will flip back real quick to the ipad mode again and you know yeah you're missing something I think you can figure it out all right next up we've got samurai two vengeance and again you know everything from the lanterns glowing to you know an increased number of objects flying around and then when you watch the actual fighting action with the effects of the glow and sort sword swings and the detail when you kill an opponent just absolutely unreal okay now see it's good i'm not done waiting because if you wouldn't gotten to see any of this stuff because nice courtesy i would not have had anybody in half so it's good we got a professional doing the actual games later but again you know just that everything from you know the smoothness of the gameplay to the little subtle things that make these games so popular just it's all enhanced on the Tegra platform alright and last but certainly not least Zen Pinball this is one that I could maybe demo although I couldn't hold the camera and I certainly couldn't talk wise demographic but pinballs a little more a little more within my skill set and again that you know the detail on the table the graphics on the table the wheel turning there when the ball was launched the 3d effect of the side walls at the table and the flippers the motion of the ball I mean just everything I can just be quiet so you can look at it but just just I keep saying unreal but it really is it's just that it's it's fantastic and it's smooth you know it's not just this level of detail and all the shadowing or anything going on but the gameplay itself you know is actually smooth which eyes is all the more impressive very very cool stuff I cannot wait for the zoom to hit the market just just amazing stuff and again it's powered by the Tegra 2 dual core processor inside and honeycomb 30 is optimized for dual core architecture as well as GPU hardware acceleration for the 3d graphics which is really where you're getting all this great stuff from Mobile World Congress 2011 and Barcelona Spain I'm Noah Kravitz for the nvidia blog with the motorola xoom tegra 2 powered tablet