Virtual reality training can speed up laparoscopic surgery by 29% and reduce mistakes by a whopping 600%, according to a study cited by NVIDIA this week. The peer-reviewed study, which was published in “Annals of Surgery,” resonates with many other studies pointing to gaming as a way to improve motor skills, memory, mental processing speeds, […]
As Valve vets 300 lucky gamers to test drive its prototype Steam Machines, NVIDIA PR manager Brian Burke and Valve Linux team member Mike Sartaina this weekend discussed how their two companies are working together to develop the best possible living room operating system at attractive price points. Although they have collaborating on everything from […]
There’s a so-called “tech preview” of the system known as Citrix out there this week, bringing with it access to none other than NVIDIA’s GRID for the masses. What users will be able to do with the setup released this week is access graphics power from remote locations using NVIDIA GRID vGPU, enabled here with […]
Always aiming to be the best of the best in gaming, NVIDIA has revealed their intentions for the upcoming holiday season with a set of tower builds going by the name GeForce GTX Battlebox. Several manufacturers of custom-made gaming PCs are onboard, including Falcon Northwest, Digital Storm, Maingear, and Origin. Each monster build in the […]
Okay, okay, NVIDIA’s “Battlebox” PCs won’t quite power the Large Hadron Collider, but it will offer more power than you’ll need to play basically any game available (or any game arriving in the coming holiday deluge). The initiative focuses on NVIDIA working with several boutique PC makers to provide 2-way SLI setups on its GTX 780 and Titan GPUs, capable of supporting gaming in 4K resolution. Providers vary between North America and Europe, but the usual players are on board: Falcon Northwest, Maingear, Cyberpower, etc.
Of course, with great power comes great cost — Chillblast’s Fusion Battlebox, for instance, starts at £2,999.00 (about $4,870), and Maingear’s Shift starts at $2,300 — so you’d better be ready to shell out some serious cash for 4K gaming.
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The third of three binding announcements has been made this week surrounding Valve’s big move toward living room gaming: SteamOS, Steam Machines, and now the Steam Controller. This machine is a next-generation solution to the relatively stagnant state of gaming controllers in the market today, working with two large trackpads, haptic feedback, and a touchscreen […]
This week gaming company Valve made public a new operating system based on their game collection and environment: SteamOS. As Steam continues to be a central part of the gaming community here in 2013, dominating the world of digital distribution of games the world over, SlashGear took the opportunity to speak with one of the […]
Back in the day when upgrading computers and getting graphic cards for the PC was an expensive hobby, gamers turned to consoles like the Nintendo GameCube, Sony PlayStation, or Microsoft Xbox to get their gaming fix. The good thing about those consoles is that games created for them would definitely run without a hitch, unlike PC games where one had to meet the minimum requirements, and even then it might not necessarily be the best experience. Now it has evolved to the point where NVIDIA executive, Tony Tamasi, believes that it is no longer possible for consoles to have better graphics than the PC.
Tamasi’s sentiments were shared during an interview wit PC PowerPlay where he believes that companies such as Sony and Microsoft do not have the kind of resources or economies of scale to invest into making better graphic cards, at least not compared to dedicated companies such as NVIDIA. “NVIDIA spends 1.5 billion US dollars per year on research and development in graphics, every year, and in the course of a console’s lifecycle we’ll spend over 10 billion dollars into graphics research […] Sony and Microsoft simply can’t afford to spend that kind of money. They just don’t have the investment capacity to match the PC guys; we can do it thanks to economy of scale, as we sell hundreds of millions of chips, year after year.”
What do you guys think? Will it come to that point in time where consoles such as the PlayStation and Xbox will no longer be needed?
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MSI has unveiled two new notebook computers today, except unlike what we often see with these being focused on gaming, these two are arriving to fill out the mobile workstation category. The new models include the GT70 20K and GT60 20J, both of which bring goodies to include NVIDIA Quadro graphics and an Intel Core […]
Is there a place for Windows RT tablets in a competitive slate market dominated by iPads? Microsoft still believes there is, and the Surface 2 is the company’s second attempt to convince everybody else that’s the case. Still using the same, slick VaporMg metal construction and crisp-edged style, the Surface 2 is as handsome as […]
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