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my coverage of CES 2018 from Las Vegas Nevada is brought to you by coolermaster enter max ocz Toshiba and deep cool all right guys I'm over at Wynn was invited by Nvidia here to share some of the stuff they have going on at CES 2018 and that's several really cool things it's also raining on me and there's there's also a velociraptor over there somewhere so I'll try to make this quick first off g-force now you guys may or may not have heard of it it's basically what Nvidia is doing with their grid technology servers render games and then stream the game over the internet and send the images to you and you can play that video game on something that's much less powerful than a typical gaming PC GeForce now is still in beta but they've expanded it a bit they're adding a bunch of Ubisoft games six including Rainbow six siege and fortnight they've also added 120 FPS mode now it doesn't necessarily mean that you're gonna see the game 120 frames per second it means it's going to render it 120 frames per second and send those frames over the Internet to you at a higher rate so that you get better latency so even if you're playing on a 60 Hertz display you'll still only see 60 frames per second but you'll see frames faster reducing latency which is of course very important when you're playing a game that's being rendered on a remote server so basically what this allows you to do is take something like a very inexpensive laptop maybe a $400 laptops that if you tried to play pub G on it would get maybe a couple frames per second but then that you're streaming the game from Nvidia servers and you're getting a much more reasonable frame rate 60 90 120 fps again depending on the game they need to enable the higher frame rate for the game in order for that to work you can even play lots of PC games now on Macs with GeForce now allow you access to PC gaming on a Mac in places where the PC game wasn't even available on the Mac before so that's pretty cool next up is what I think is kind of the most exciting news from Nvidia this week which is BFG D that's big in gaming displace I sorry but big format gaming displays is what it says here I'm very easy to make that confusion these are large 65 inch 4k displays they feature g-sync 4k resolution 120 hertz refresh rate HDR with a thousand nits of brightness ultra-low latency i asked them for specs on that they're not actually giving those details out but they said they should be on par with gaming monitors so really good of latency for gameplay and there's an Nvidia shield built into the TV what that means is although the TVs don't necessarily have TV tuners which I thought was an interesting choice but you can use the Nvidia shield to access the Internet and you can use that to access Android apps and that kind of thing they for instance demonstrated streaming from Amazon in 4k grand tour which I think I'm gonna need to start watching now cuz that show get so much positive buzz but I'm getting distracted more on the gaming side of things though they did have a destiny to demo that they showed off and it's really just the confluence of all of these gaming technologies that have been available on the PC for so long integrate it into a huge 65 inch TV that you could use in a living room or I guess in your gaming room if you're okay with a really big TV that maybe you're standing a little bit too close to but still a good experience all around they had three models on display from HP on their omen series also from Asus and Acer and HP said that they're looking to bring these actually to the market make them available for purchase around fall of this year 2018 they do not have any pricing yet I asked them for ballpark pricing they said if you look at like top 10 displays that are like 4k 120 Hertz maybe not with all this technology in it but in that ballpark they said in that ballpark so take that for what it's worth maybe maybe you'll be able to afford one of these I think these are really cool but I'm hoping it's not one of those really cool things that Nvidia comes out with that only the richest people are able to actually afford one last thing I wanted to mention this is just some updates that they've been making the GeForce experience first off is something called freestyle which I initially looked at and thought to myself hmm they're taking Instagram filters and allowing you to apply them to the games that you're playing basically big middle finger to anyone who's put a lot of work into the art style of the game but know this makes a little bit more sense when you look at it for example the most useful thing you could do with freestyle is colorblind settings so if you are a colorblind person you can put a colorblind mode on a game that didn't otherwise have it and I think that's the most practical use of this but colors and filters overlays there's a big menu of ones that are available they had 15 preset so you can go in in to individually adjust settings on them and you can overlap them with each other as well so you can then do that get it all set up for your favorite game and then you can save a preset for your game up to three presets per game that's stored and saved by GeForce experience and then just go ahead and switch between those and whatever game you're playing whether you want a sepia tone so it looks like you're playing a very old game or you whether whether you want really crazy over saturation or you want it to look really dark and gritty or that kind of thing even sharpening settings and that kind of thing there is potentially a two to seven percent performance hits on the game when it comes to framerate so do bear that in mind this is something that happens in the driver so there is a little bit of overhead but not too bad and then again up to three presets per game so plug them in and get your freestyle on also they've updated Ansel and Ansel now has a little bit more access to some of these overlays as well so there is a new Ansel UI as well Nvidia actually did have a couple more things on display new max-q notebooks for example a new and updated Ansel UI but of course we are always limited on time at CES 2018 so I have to wrap it up for this video guys if you did enjoy it hit the thumbs up button I'm gonna be back with more coverage from Las Vegas Nevada for CES 2018 and of course a big thank you to my sponsors for this event Coolermaster enter max ocz Toshiba and deep cool thanks for watching guys we'll see in the next video