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Linus tech tips coverage of Pax 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel and SteelSeries so guys we're here in the Hall of NVIDIA pcs where we've got a bunch of games that they're showcasing a lot of these are current games so technologies like TxAA physics 3d vision all that stuff it's being shown off here so there's Splinter Cell blacklist there's Hawking there's ex pawn the Bureau whole bunch of really cool stuff I heard a little bird tell me that there might be something to do with that net Arkham origins now I don't know something something about that sort of later on in the show so guys stay tuned for that because much like the previous Batman's I'm expecting this one to feature pretty much the entire slew of Nvidia gaming technologies so lo and behold Nvidia shield so we've got Dishonored Borderlands 2 Batman Arkham City and elderscrolls v skyrim all being streamed to shield gamers who are here demoing the device for the first time so there's a whole bunch of Falken northwest gaming machines powering these and then the routers are obviously hidden but here maybe we can get one of these gamers to give us their impressions I'm blindsiding you here man how's the latency on this latency what does that mean the latency would refer to like do you feel like you're playing wirelessly off of another device or does it just feel like you're playing on it well I feel like I'm just playing on it well because it's just it just connects to the monitor so so it's really cool the graphics are great especially when you put it on the TV it looks almost the same there's no like pixel distortion or anything compared to that fantastic so there you go guys he had no idea that was coming that was definitely spur of the moment I'm personally since I already have a shield more interested in these Nvidia beanbag chairs these things are awesome look at this I definitely need to get my hands on a couple of these somehow I mean I think the coolest thing about that is that a completely non-technical person who doesn't even understand that it's not the shield streaming to the TV or the computer it's the other way around he has no idea that it's just like wirelessly beaming an h.264 encoded video stream to the shield itself is phenomenally cool because it speaks to the seamlessness of the experience I mean us nerds are gonna benchmark it and we're gonna measure the latency and we're gonna do this and we're gonna do that but when it comes to an actual gamer sitting in a beanbag chair enjoying the game that's the experience very cool so we're chilling on the couch with Brett from Nvidia it looks like the very robust Wi-Fi solution that's built in to shield is capable of doing more than just streaming games from your PC so what have you got running here right now this is skiing Fred this is one of our titles we have on Tegra zone so we're actually showing here on shield skiing skiing Fred being watched you stream to this TV over here the only fat core that I have on this device is just for power it's streaming to that dongle over there over Wi-Fi direct over a meerkats technology so as you can see I can take my shield on the go come home cookies throw this up with a put touch of a button up onto the screen and put all my favorite Android games watch movies Netflix everything onto the TV so using Wi-Fi basically the idea is now you can play PC games on this or you can play Android games on that and the whole thing just is it's it's an all-in-one entertainment console nobody knows what anything does anymore it kind of does everything it escapes absolutely crazy so thank you very much for showing us this checking this out guys don't miss any of our PAX Prime 2013 coverage huge thanks to our sponsors Western Digital Intel and SteelSeries for allowing us to be here and thanks again for showing us this thanks