Posted on 01/07/2013 8:40:57 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CES 2013: Meet Project Shield
The new Shield is pretty much a standard sized controller with a flip-up 5-inch 1280x720 294dpi Retina-class touchscreen with Nvidia DirectTouch tech. It features rechargeable batteries capable to keep up with up to 38 hours of gaming and up to 24 hours of HD video playback, great integrated audio system with custom bass reflex and integrated console-grade game controller. HDMI output, microUSB, microSDcard slot and a 3.5mm audio jack are also on board. It also features integrated 802.11n 2x2 MIMO game-speed Wi-Fi that provides high-bandwidth, ultra-fast wireless for seamless game streaming.
It is, at least currently, based on Android Jelly Bean OS, or according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, pure Android with no custom UI. Thank God for that.
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NVIDIA CES 2013 Press Event: Live Blog
Runs Android.....talks to TV .
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Jason Clouston
2 hours ago
It doubles as a Steam controller, when running Steam in Big Picture mode on a nice big widescreen TV. Read the article again. If you are not aware of Steam Big Picture mode, then go do some reading, as there is plenty of potential in this and I am sure there will be a market.
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Steam Big Picture Mode Now Live
Access Steam from your TV.
After a beta earlier this year, Valve has officially launched Steams Big Picture Mode. Available now, Big Picture Mode allows players to access Steam via their television, supporting controllers in addition to keyboard and mouse controls. Big Picture Mode allows players to access all of their existing games, including cloud files, Steam Workshop content, account information and preferences.
Big Picture is accessible by connecting a PC or Mac to a TV. The new mode is available worldwide in languages including German, French, Russian, Korean and Portuguese and offers a new web browser designed specifically for use with televisions and game controllers.
The browser is accessible from anywhere within Big Picture, including while playing games. According to Valve, the browser supports Big Picture's new method of typing with a gamepad, which is useful for entering URLs, filling out forms, chatting, and other functions.
To celebrate the launch, Valve has also put more than 30 games on sale for 75% until December 10th. For more on Big Picture, visit Valves official site.
They will mail us one for free so my wife can write a review, and we get to keep it so she can review games when they come out. If you are young and looking to start a career, get into that racket.
They need to switch the dpad with the left analog or I won’t even consider it.
From Phoronix:
NVIDIA Announces Portable Gaming Platform
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NVIDIA Officially Announces The Tegra 4 SoC
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I agree. Who uses the d-pad these days?
Nvidia launches Tegra 4 and Shield gaming device
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Nvidia (NVDA) has some showcases ready. The Tegra 4 can push video to the latest and greatest 4K resolution TVs, meaning you could see the Tegra 4 chip running in the next generation of Smart TVs and streaming boxes.
NVIDIA Announced Shield Gaming Device
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Streaming from the desktop PC is a bit narrow at the moment as laid out by the specifications. As noted I would suspect this to broaden, actually quite a lot, as the product gets closer to hitting the store shelves which is expected in Q2'13.
System Requirements for PC Game Streaming*
GPU: NVIDIA® Kepler-based GeForce GTX 650 (Desktop) or
GTX 660M (Notebook) or higher
CPU: Intel Core i5 or equivalent or higher
System Memory: 4 GB or higher
Software: GeForce Experience application and latest GeForce drivers
OS: Windows 7 or higher
Router: Router: 802.11a/g/n
(Recommended: 802.11n Dual Band / MIMO Router)
*System requirements are preliminary and may be updated closer to product availability
It seems as though the screen equipped on the Shield will be very nice for a native Shield experience as well. Tegra's image quality has always been impressive as well.
5" Retinal Display
SHIELD flips open to an integrated 5" 1280x720 HD multi-touch display. With 294 dpi and 921,600 pixels, SHIELD has the highest resolution and pixel density of any handheld gaming device. In addition, Tegra 4s Direct Touch technology gives SHIELD touch response three times faster than other touch devices.
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More Details on NVIDIA's Tegra 4 & i500: 5th core is A15, 28nm HPL, UE Category 3 LTE
We just finished NVIDIA's CES press conference where it introduced the Tegra 4 SoC and Shield mobile gaming console. Immediately following the press event we snagged some more information about Tegra 4 and the NVIDIA i500 Baseband silicon:
- Tegra 4 is built on TSMC's 28nm HPm process (low power 28nm with High-K + Metal Gate)
Just confirmed that our initial information was incorrect, it's 28nm HPL (28nm low power with high-k + metal gates). The difference between HPL and HPM is a optimization for leakage vs. peak performance. This helps explain the 1.9GHz max frequency for the A15s in Tegra 4.
- The fifth/companion core is also a Cortex A15, but synthesized to run at lower frequencies/voltages/power. This isn't the same G in and island of LP process that was Tegra 2/3.
- The fifth/companion core isn't visible to the OS, it's not big.LITTLE but it'll work similarly to how Tegra 3 worked. This probably means no companion core in Windows RT.
- The four Cortex A15s will run at up to 1.9GHz.
- NEW: die size is around 80mm^2, slightly bigger than Tegra 3 but on a much higher density process
- NEW: the shaders aren't unified, the majority are 20-bit pixel shader cores though. No idea on the ratio yet.
- dual-channel memory interface, LP-DDR3 is supported
- NVIDIA's i500 will launch with LTE UE Category 3 (100Mbps downlink) support, eventually we'll see an update to UE Category 4 (150Mbps downlink).
- i500 will launch with carrier aggregation for WCDMA, no idea what 3GPP release.
Shield
- As far as Shield goes, I wanted to correct one thing about how the PC display streaming works. The PC will stream to the display directly, not through Shield. Shield will pass controller commands to the PC.
- Shield will launch in Q2 at a price competitive with other mobile gaming systems and tablets.
- All of the games during the Shield demo were 720p, except for one which was 1080p.
- Miracast is supported, but something better will come later.
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