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(rockets launching) (techno melodic music) - This is how playing with friends used to be. A lot of fun, a little cozy, but honestly, pretty cramped. Nowadays, the TVs have gotten bigger, and nicer. But thanks today's sponsored ViewSonic, I think we can do even better. (bright upbeat music) At it's roots, gaming has always been simultaneously both a very social and also very personal activity. On the social spectrum, it's all about community. Whether that's in the old school days, where people would take turns at an arcade, trying to one-up each other's high scores, going to head-to-head into a fighting game at your friend's house, or even just being online, participating in a 100 man, free-for-all battle royale game. At the same time though, it's also very personal, because it's all based on this idea of being immersed in something else, getting to the point where, really, you lose track of the real world, for better or worse. But you're experiencing these other worlds, soaking in all of these other stories, and just being drawn into these experiences. These two concepts, community and immersion, are two of the most important building blocks when it comes to gaming, and when you wanna try and get the most out of both of those, I think there's one, very singular, important answer. We need the biggest screen possible. And that's what brings us to ViewSonic. They reached out to us to take a look at some of their newest projectors, which look really cool, and be great for a gaming set-up. But the problem is we've done gaming set-ups with projectors before, you know? We really need to do something even bigger and better. Two projectors. And now is the perfect time to try out this idea, thanks to the release of Super Smash Bros, one of the few games left that really pushes the home multi-player experience. Before we get to actually putting this whole set-up together though, let's take a look at the actual projectors we'll be using. These are the PX706HDs from ViewSonic. These projectors are perfect for gaming, thanks to an ultra-low input latency of 16 milliseconds, way below any TV you'll be using, and also offer full HD 3D compatibility, and work great during the day, with 3,000 Lumens. We've been trying it out in our room, and office during the day, and it looks great. With a contrast ratio of 22,000 to one, you're gonna have nice, deep blacks, and thanks to Sonic expert technology, you're gonna get fully immersive sound. And to top all this off, it has a Gaming mode to get you the most out of your console or gaming PC, and it's future-proofed with USB Type-C. It is a short throw projector, so with only a few feet of space between it in the wall, you can still get an image up to 100 inches, and it has a Zoom feature, so you can adjust the size of the picture without moving the projector itself. So we have our two projectors, but in order to make this work for a gaming console, we need to use something else called a video wall box. This allows us to plug our switch into it, and it's gonna take the video signal from that, and split it into multiple parts, and feed them to the projectors. If you've ever been to a restaurant, where you see a sports game across four giant TVs, that's what they're using to do this. Now, it take a little time and patience, to tie up the projectors just right, to meet together to create one gigantic image, but once you get it, you have this huge screen to play with, which for Smash, is utterly insane, especially with a group of friends, 'cause you can all just sit down, and see a whole wall covered by the game. Because we are taking a video signal meant for a single screen, and we're splitting it across two, lengthwise, it is stretching the image out a little bit. You might notice the aspect ratio is not quite right, but, it honestly looks fine, and it's tons of fun, really. Don't worry bout it. It's awesome. Keep in mind that if you're using a gaming PC, it'll actually display just two images, like two monitors. So that'll work perfectly. And if you wanna make a gaming console even better, just double up the projectors, for an even more ridiculously huge image. For PC games, this is gonna give you that experience like having an ultra-wide monitor, where you're getting even bigger field of view, and just really sucks you in to whatever you're playing. Anyways, that's enough of all the technical jargon, and explanations. Let's play some Smash. (dark epic music) I'm gonna be honest with you guys, after playing Smash on a setup like this, it's kinda difficult to go back to just playing on the Switch screen, or on a regular TV. Because, just the massive scale of it, makes everything more hectic and just so much fun to play. If you're looking to do a projector gaming setup, these are awesome ones to take a look at. We're gonna have a link down below, if you wanna check 'em out, and we'll see you guys later.