Top 5 Gaming stuff from CES 2018
The consumer electronics fair in Las Vegas ended this week, and featured technologies that will improve our quality of life in the near future, or probably will not come to life after the prototype phase. Focus of CES is on everyday products, so that gaming is a side thing. However, some CES products have a wider application, so they can be used by gamers as well, and we will outline some of the features that we have seen with our sharp eyes.
5. RAZER PROJECT LINDA
Project Linda is a laptop launched by Razer Phone. Its idea is not revolutionary new, but is definitely interesting in the wider context. The Nintendo Switch Console has made us stop thinking about gaming devices by dividing onto home and portable. On the track of that is also Razer's Linda which serves as an extension of a mobile device while the mobile device serves as the heart of the laptop.
Since Razer has a long history of announcements of prototypes that ultimately never finds its way to the market, Linda is not something about to have huge expectations. However, Razer's experimentation with this concept is convenient, and may have use for playing on mobile devices.
4. XENOMA E-SKIN
You are a controller! The character in the game moves as you move! How many such promises were made for Microsoft Kinect, which was usable only in dancing games. E-Skin is somewhat similar to this concept, but to a radically different idea because motion sensors are not on the camera but on the shirt that the player wears for himself to control the game with his own movements.
It is possible that this is a completely missed concept, but in the context of gaming it is interesting to see different approaches to transferring player movements to the game. We would not be surprised that some E-Skin socks in the end would be a solution to the VR problem. And as in 2018 we still do not have any accurate player detection in space, we should definitely think of new strategies to extend the interaction of a player with a game beyond 16 control buttons.
3. ASUS BEZEL-FREE KIT
Behind this product there is no great mind, but it's surprising that no one has ever remembered anything like this. The Bezel-free Kit masks the monitor edges when you connect them in a row to get a wide picture preview. Masking is not complete, but with the rejection of light you get as much better effect than that your monitors share black edges.
However, this kind of gameplay does not have much support, so the Asus product is actually used by a very small part of the gamers' audience. Anyway, they should be commended for the cunning of this concept.
2. INTEL PROCESSORS WITH RX VEGA GRAPHICS
When Intel and AMD announced co-operation last year, it turned out that April 1 arrived early. But now, this cooperation does make sense, at least in the market of high-end notebooks. Namely, Intel has no integrated solution that could be used for enjoyable gaming but in this respect it depends on Nvidia. But with a new series of mobile processors with discrete graphic design on AMD's Vega architecture, Intel has a racing horse again.
According to official claims, the G series of Intel processors in some scenarios is a better solution than using the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6GB graphics card. For fans on high-end gaming laptops, this could be whatever, but this combination is interesting from the console perspective, as we're starting to think about the ninth generation of consoles that could easily target the portability factor. With that in mind, Intel and AMD have made a rare product that has achieved a significant technological jump.
1. NVIDIA BFGD
Nvidia came to the CES Fair with a product line that every PC gamer would like. It is featured under the BFGD, which does not mean "big fakin dil" but Big Format Gaming Display. It is about screens that are big as a TV, but capable of being a monitor. Illegal marriage of one and the other, a plain description.
Nvidia in cooperation with Acer, Asus, and HP plans to cover the gap in the market because PC gamer currently must agree to compromise on screen dimensions and its responsiveness. With BFGD this is not the case, and the only compromise we will have to agree is that this is something that only selling of the kidney can buy. Namely, there is a reason why there is a gap between the TV and the monitor, and it is visible in the financial mediocrity of the middle solution. But PC gamers are often enthusiastic and some for the BFGD price will not even ask. It has not been revealed for now, but count that this will be things you probably will not be able to afford if you care how much it costs.
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