 Time again welcome to the show where we talk tech and usually there are two of us But today as you can see I am on my own Luke's not even here to enjoy the brand new now not only including his Twitter handle lower third, but also Alignment on the logo fix lower third. I'll just have to appreciate that all by myself so it's been quite the eventful week both here at Linus Media Group and You know outside of Linus Media Group. We were making some pretty significant progress on our upcoming headquarters We had a lot of people tell us that hey, yeah the sound on that chairracing channel super fun video was not Super fantastic and oh shoot. I just realized my title is wrong. This should be the WAN show weekly tech and gaming talk Fridays at 1630 boom that is updated so a lot of people said the the sound was not not very exceptional but we have actually made significant progress on that since then and it's been Expensive but Yeah, it's been it's been expensive, but we're still you know We're trucking on and we're really really excited about About what there is to a bunch of people are apparently complaining about the lower third too bad We are sticking with the lower third exactly the way it is you want to know why because I like it And it's Linus Media Group where if I want it changed I have to pay someone to do it and that's expensive so that is exactly why we are leaving that I've got a great got our topics for the day, so Tons of stuff it was hard to pick out. What is coolest this week, but I think valve steam machines finally coming also What appears to be the mostly we hope final version of the steam controller? Details being out there is pretty darn exciting. Oh actually I didn't talk about this when I did my show announcement a minute ago to upload to YouTube, but Valve also has that VR headset that they've collaborated with HTC on that looks really exciting They've got a new technology called lighthouse that we'll talk a little bit more about later Also this week at GDC and video launched the shield again this time It's a completely different device and that old one has been renamed and you think they could just come up with another word anyway We'll talk about the shield TV console thing The Titan X and videos new flagship graphics card details are kind of all over the place now and Oh apparently Luke is ready to call in so maybe what I'll do is I'll tease one more topic That's AMD's free sync is being officially launched very exciting to people like me who Super duper believe in this whole variable refresh rate thing And then I'll go ahead I'll roll the intro and I'll get Luke kind of coming on the show here welcome to the wad show Welcome to the wad show This is interesting Okay, I think I have my I think I have my call-in settings right, but I'm gonna Hopefully no no he's not muted. Hey, are you there? Hello? I don't have a video feed for you um Wow All right, well let me do the hold on let me do the sponsors for me. I see you now I see now hold on let me do the sponsors okay, so our sponsors today are Linda.com Let's try to be completely appropriate about Linda.com this week okay for the first time ever also Luke great save 10% with offer code Linus and finally Pax East powered by Hyper X wouldn't have happened without Hyper X wouldn't have happened without This freaking guy that I'm gonna go ahead and find a way to no they can't see you yet. That's a great I'm appreciating it hold on I gotta turn I gotta turn you down as well You're probably blowing everyone's ears out because of for whatever reason it's by default very big All right add screen region and This is so weird because you are like you are not you are not a show guest You are you actually you live on this show and so having you call in as a guest is actually like tripping me out for right now Alright, let me do like I should introduce myself. I know it's bizarre so today. We've got Luke Lafreniere He's from publication called lines tech tips you may or may not Know why he hangs out with those guys he should really find some like cooler kids to hang around with Oh, I'm trying to get you all like aligned nicely with the bottom thing here So you get your usual actually you got a little more than half the screen But I think it kind of works because I'm smaller than you all right, so you missed the you missed the the intro Malaysian part, but that's okay. We have a new lower third. I don't know if you noticed that I I'm still like I told you I'm ready, but I'm super not so like I'm still opening everything I haven't even seen the actual twitch stream yet But I heard that we had a new lower third. I just haven't seen apparently you're still too loud I'm gonna turn you down some more is that is that better guys? Try again Hello testing one two three four oh for crying out loud. Okay. How's that try again? I'm talking about things that happened at PAX although. I'm not sure if that's what I'm talking about That's a lot better tons of other things happened. Yep should be good alright, so I've got someone complaining about the one pixel line I have you misaligned by one pixel at the top, and I'm gonna leave it because that's awesome Okay, so why don't we do you want to just give me sort of a rough? What's the vibe? What's the vibe at PAX? How's it going a lot of the vibe is that everyone actually kind of wanted to be at GDC oh? Yeah, so Back when I was like hey We should maybe check this out and then decided that it wasn't that important that was apparently the wrong the wrong Idea because like everything happened at GDC GDC was bananas this year yes, and usually it's not really usually it's super Developer heavy and all that kind of stuff, but like tons of hardware stuff went down Go figure like that. Yeah, that's crazy to me. I mean what? When has a graphics card ever launched it? Yeah never yeah, okay? Good I had no idea because I was traveling that day so today I'm walking around the floor and like I've heard rumors about it, but I haven't I didn't know it actually launched so Multiple people are coming up to me like oh like what do you think about it like? Are you have you secretly tested it yet, and I'm sitting there being like I have no idea what's happening I had no idea it was announced or launched. I'm thinking that people are just going off of rumors So I'm telling everyone no and everyone thinks I'm lying That's like oh no you're under NDA or whatever you've been testing this forever, and I'm like no I actually have no idea I literally know less about this than you do so I will tell you that I know I know why everyone thinks we're lying tech gauge has like pictures of their card up already. Oh my goodness here I'll screen I'll screen share tech gauge up close look at g-force gtx Titan X Hold on let me just make sure yep my screen share is working I uninstalled that creative control panel, and it seems to be fine now. Oh nice, so there it is Comes in a box looks like a graphics card Looks like it's using the same cool. They're just gonna keep making more and more of the card black Until until it's completely like that next comes the IO shield. I guess that'll be the Titan X black edition Yeah, it'll be completely black, and then they're going to release the white edition or something. Yeah, yeah Or something and they'll just keep they'll keep adding more black and like more green LEDs until we're suitably impressed So yeah, the card has posed on camera. I got it. I got a message I got an email right before the show where I asked is ours in the mail, and I got a I got a confirmation so Cool cool no briefing no driver Cards in the mail just no nothing Yeah, I don't wow I see the lower third now. That's really sure don't ask us if we got time You know not none of that just put it in the mail. We'll deal with it. Yeah, we do We'll deal with it. Yeah, we don't have time like legitimately not at all. I know that's the best part of all of this I think that's a holiday while you're gone as if that's gonna be actually a holiday for me Yeah You know what though I I filmed four videos yesterday Wow four and I plan to do something similar on Monday I'm gonna be prepping a lot of stuff on on the weekend, so I'm still gonna. I'm still gonna do my best to To get you guys actually maybe we should take this opportunity to to tell the audience Kind of what's what's going on with why we need to be filming four videos a day and stuff like that right now So if you guys have heard of a video platform called vessel the first thing I need to say is don't sign up for it Because we don't have a referral link yet, so wait for that. Yeah, so wait for that but Basically the way vessel works is it's gonna have The same well in theory. This is what they're trying to do It's gonna have the same creators as other online platforms like YouTube and even some you know more traditional celebrities except it'll offer early access and it's a subscription based service and then the idea is that For the create what's in it for the creators is that people watching on vessel come in at a it's kind of like I think the best analogy is the one that they gave us and it's like well think about this when you go watch a movie At the theater to go watch with two people. It's like you know 30 bucks plus popcorn plus whatever So that's that's if you want to see it like at the earliest possible opportunity with the best possible experience Then it's a lot more expensive, and if you're willing to wait a lot longer eventually you can see it on TV subsidized by ads and That's that experience so vessel will be it'll have things a little bit earlier But basically it's the same content and everything that we release is still gonna go to YouTube as well So and there there will still be If you just ignore vessel there will actually be no noticeable change because we're always gonna be uploading one video a day to YouTube There will never be a gap there will never be a difference there So if you're just like nope gonna ignore it there will be no change So everything will be totally fine all the burden is on us to get a full week ahead on content Yeah, before we go ahead and launch with with this platform, so we're still in talks with them Nothing is signed nothing is confirmed, but it looks like we are it looks like we are probably You're probably we're probably interested We're saying no don't do it. There's literally no change on the YouTube side Yeah, there will be no difference at all you will get all good. You will get every video in your inbox every day Yeah, and there will never be a gap you will always be getting a video a day WAN show will always be archived on YouTube the the like day at right after it's live essentially Yeah, all show coverage will be uploaded right when it's supposed to Yeah There will be no noticeable difference That's fine people are acting like they have to subscribe to vessel you do not have to do at all at all If you choose to then great if you don't then then don't that's fine, too So got people asking will the videos be the same yes, they will be the they will have the same content It'll be about the same stuff. It will literally be Uploaded to YouTube after so I guess that is that's pretty much it for that Let's go ahead and move into our first topic shall we do you have the dock open everything I? Do but I have had zero minutes to look at this at all awesome Okay, well there's a there's a quick one that I can that I can cover for you while you Will you go ahead and get caught up a little bit here sure let's go ahead and post this in the twitch chat Okay, Bippity oh oh it always signs me out I Just want to post a message in the twitch chat I should be able to do that I can still do that from here. Can you are you trying to do the politicians one? Yeah? All right, I got it. You got it you posted already all right, so in like a second basically now to be clear the Camera is not available you have you have got to be kidding me This is this is driving me crazy. I thought I had this screen capture thing worked out now Where it was just it was just gonna work every time from now on from now until the end of time Never and it looks like I do not get to have that particular experience We are back at least very much hope so I'm really sorry about that guys when I refresh a video input device If I do it with a black magic device usually the computer blue screens So the fact that it only froze the application that time is actually an improvement Yeah, so I what I was actually trying to refresh was my screen So I could bring up this ours technica article here. We go boom Okay, now. I think that I think that sort of it's a little bit sensationalist Republicans Internet Freedom Act would wipe out net neutrality This is not something that the entire Republican Party is behind at all. I believe it's about 36 30 30 not even a majority so 30 32 32 Republicans behind this it's It's the Marshal percent or amount of people people Okay, yeah, I have no idea so basically Marshal Blackburn is filing the Internet freedom legislation she calls the Internet freedom act to be clear that does not mean this is Being signed into law, but it's basically throwing out pretty much everything the FCC is trying to do ours goes ahead and brings up that in the latest election cycle Blackburn received $25,000 from an AT&T political action committee $20,000 from a compact Comcast political action committee $20,000 from a cable industry Association Political action committee and 15,000 from a Verizon political action committee So that comes to a total of off the top of my head $80,000 so I don't know what I should be more upset about at this point Well, I guess I'm not that upset. I'm Canadian so this doesn't directly affect me although at some point He's he's Canadian so he's sorry that he's upset right now. I'm sorry. I'm upset I don't know what's more upsetting the fact that That that that someone is just so obviously bought I mean fighting against net neutrality So as aggressively as this legislation would it's basically like yeah, you know How however will the Internet survive if we don't let the Internet service providers be in charge of it dear? Own my goodness. What's going to happen? Like it's it's it's pretty bad and so I again So I don't know if I'm more upset that that she's bought or if I'm more upset that it only costs $80,000 every yeah four years or every election cycle to to be that completely in someone's pocket I Mean kind of gross that is sad So yeah, I see like seeing stuff like this I Before house of cards this is so kind of weird before house of cards I was always like wow like that's so crazy that this stuff could happen and like I know it's just a show but now That I watch host of cards. I'm like hmm Every single one of them is bought by someone I Wonder who it is. I think I have you too loud again. Let me turn that down There we go. All right, hopefully everything is totally awesome this time And I'm not gonna accidentally refresh the intensity Pro again. So we have more news on AMD free sync do you want to go ahead and throw the the official AMD page I guess Oh sure, okay. Well, this was posted by spartaman64 and the last one is from Victoria's secret But basically in summary, there's not actually a whole lot of new news here free sync works exactly the way we thought it did So variable refresh rate gaming That's a good thing. By the way, it works anywhere from 30 to 144 FPS Why amd uses cookies? That's nice. Don't care This page is not letting me scroll for some reason I am NOT having a good day today No at all Actually, the rest of the day has gone pretty well so far. There we go. There's your Where'd that scroll bar go? Okay, page up page down is my only choice is my only choice You can do it. I believe in you Linus Anywhere from 30 to 144 hertz it can refresh that and you Linus growing tips You gotta have a AMD GPU that supports it and a supported driver and a And a display port 1.2 a display that supports the optional adaptive Sync spec so in a nutshell, it's exactly what we thought it's officially launching So there you go. That's pretty much all I really have to say about that This one's cool though valve has given us a date This was posted by Victoria's secret for the official steam machines Launch also source to with Vulkan support is being announced. So steam machines Will include sort of the remember guys valve originally did like that steam machine concept thing where they shipped out Steam machines to a bunch of lucky people. They're not doing their own steam machine steam machine is just a computer from someone like I buy power or Alienware that comes with steam OS in star stay tuned for a video on Zotac's Yeah, oh, did you film that today? I did Awesome. That is that is filmed and will be uploaded probably in the first wave and yeah, it's launching in November It actually looks super good. I'm not gonna get too into it. So the people actually watch the video Awesome, it aesthetically looks really good and they're bundling a lot of the steam machines that come out around that time with the steam controller Which was also announced in its final form at GDC as well Yeah, so let me see if I can actually I'm gonna see if I can find some pics of the the final steam controller GDC 2020 2015. I'll just try to find someone's article So they've made a lot of changes since the original steam controller actually here I'll finish up talking about steam machines first. So to be clear, they're just PCs. They're just computers They plug into your your TV or realistically you could plug one into your monitor if you felt like it They range in price from around console price points to you know, four thousand five thousand dollars depending on the price Points to you know, four thousand five thousand dollars depending on how balls to the wall you want to go with they're just a computer Because they're just a computer It'll launch alongside both the steam controller that Luke just mentioned and steam link which is actually kind of the The like the the actual piece the biggest piece of news in my mind to be perfectly honest Steam link see you have been disconnected steam link. Yeah is really cool It's gonna be 50 bucks apparently or I think I don't know if they actually said 50 bucks I think they said price the same as the controller which is 50 bucks. So So me, I don't know. Maybe it ends up being 60 or like who knows but it's yeah It's gonna be around that $50 price point. It supports 1080p 60 Hertz Streaming and then basically it's just a dedicated box for steam in home streaming So you can play games 360 yes, so better than the doko. I was just gonna say oh Oh doko Doke doke cheaper. Yeah cheaper than the doku doko thing and it's better Yeah, so doko 2 or doko plus or whatever it is that they've got planned is now officially dead And it will it won't just support game streaming. It'll also support streaming your your desktop from from another location So if you have so I mean we're all the parts of the ecosystem are coming together The thing that was missing was a super cheapo Chromecast level Steam and home streaming thing people have I think people have played around with it on the Raspberry Pi I don't think the experience was that great. I haven't seen anything about Pi 2 But this at 50 bucks with an Ethernet port in a couple USB ports for controllers or mouse and keyboard or whatever else and then HDMI looks like Pretty much the bees knees. That sounds awesome. Yeah at 50 bucks. That's awesome. Yeah, that is exactly. Yeah So like to me that kills all but the highest end TV attached Devices that are designed to stream from computers and I'll talk I'll talk more about Nvidia shield Soon because that still kind of has a place and there's a discussion to be had there But would you buy a steam machine at this point? No I probably wasn't gonna buy a steam machine anyways, I want to make a mineral home theater PC but now I don't know how applicable that is because This steam link thing actually sounds awesome and like one really cool thing I've been doing some amount of research on receivers lately not a huge amount but a little bit and The second that you get to do anything that's gonna be better than something that I could just buy from like a thrift store or a Secondhand store because receivers haven't really gotten that much crazy better As far as I can tell is stuff like networking So if I could just have one of these hooked up to my receiver and just Bluetooth To that through my phone then I can just control the songs and stuff through there It's these power amp on my phone pull it off my NAS because I now have a connected thing like I don't know That's awesome. Yeah, I like I am still one of those people who has a media center PC But even I am looking at some of these solutions and kind of going well Shoot, am I ever actually sitting in front of my computer upstairs while I sit on my couch? There's still a place like people who want to run games at 4k on their 4k TV Are not gonna be served by a device like this, but I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna I'm gonna like I'm gonna say it High contrast is way more important than 4k a quality display from the kind of distance that I sit from my TV A quality display is way more important than 4k 4k has not tempted me to upgrade to it personally It's the kind of thing I love to drool over and like walking around at CES with like 4k curved this and 4k OLED that and like 4k up your butt whatever all the 4k is like exciting and sweet and like I geek out over that stuff But I'm not gonna pay for it yet Yeah, one thing I have to worry about with this is any input latency so I Blah blah blah. I forget what they were. I forget what it is Exactly, but if it's anything like Steam at home streaming, okay, if you're like competitive CS go Do like you or and or whatever else? No, man But I'm just saying I'm just saying like Yeah, like you're right Like obviously like playing save or whatever would be great on this Sivra XCOM anything that's like turn-based or whatever will be fine But how many games will be an issue? I want to get my hands on it essentially and try like it's it sounds really compelling But I'm not sure if it's going to replace home theater PCs for everyone is essentially what I'm trying to say Yeah, you do it for a lot of people like my dad would now be able to ditch the home theater PC that he has Because it's giant And then use this instead because that would be great because if my dad's gonna play any games it'll be like What is that game called Rocksmith? I think it's Rocksmith Like even you can play with an actual guitar. Okay, it's kind of like rock band Yeah, so he'll play like that or like a racing game. So he'll probably be fine with either one So you could just get the steam link but it might not work for everybody Yeah, so I'm I'm excited to see where it goes. I mean, it's Like you said, it's not for everyone you want 4k you want like the absolute best input latency you want this you want that Okay, fine. Well, then you got to pay but for 50 bucks for 1080p 60 with you know It's sort of sub, you know 60 milliseconds of extra latency It's looking pretty compelling and let's let's talk a little bit about the steam controller So this article is from IGN. I'm just gonna pull up this this this still of what we're looking at here So now the original the original steam controller just had the two haptic feedback pads and valves concept was that they wanted you to use that as your button inputs and as your D pad slash Joysticks analog stick, whatever you want to call it They wanted all the control to be through the haptic pads now It's still got that and they are that sort of I we've seen a lot of different iterations with things like the positions Swapped around for a joystick versus a haptic pad or buttons here buttons there So now this is it It has the two haptic pads on the outside in what looked like the more ergonomic positions And then it has a single joystick on the left and an ABX Y layout of buttons that looks like it's ripped straight off an Xbox controller with this with the steam button in the middle Select and start or back and forward or whatever you want to call those and then four trigger buttons on the shoulders And then I believe there's two squeeze buttons on the bottom as well Luke. What's your take on this? You've seen it, right? I've seen it. Yeah, I have it up on stream right now Actually, cuz I'm trying to follow along on the stream because I don't really know what you're looking at Awesome. I don't know. I am probably still gonna stick with my like 360 controller thing And I'll maintain what I said actually when they first started showing off steam controller things Which is it might make sense for games that I normally wouldn't want to play with a controller Yeah, so so most games that I want to play like an action game if I want to play Assassin's Creed a lot of times I'll play with the controller. I didn't play Shadow of Mordor with controller I didn't play Shadow of Mordor with controller, but I heard it was a pretty good experience Stuff like racing games. I would always play with the controller Person's always pretty good with a controller Yeah, I did third person action fighting. I find usually does well with a controller like 2013 I hardly touched it. Yeah, every time I try to benchmark that damn game and I have to play it with a keyboard and mouse I'm like, oh crap. I don't know how to do anything I don't think yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the only thing I don't like in that game is that there's there's free aiming with like guns and bows Which I always have an issue with oh with the controller. You know what by the end of that game? I was getting not bad actually, I believe you I just suck So I want to use a keyboard and mouse because I could be I just the truth the ugly the ugly truth that no PC gamer wants to tell you I Guess I just have to use a keyboard and mouse because I suck with the controller you heard it here So you heard it here first folks? You heard it here first PC gamers are just losers those video clips that I was doing today. Actually, I did quite a few of those I don't know if we're no we are not teasing that that is gonna be frickin awesome Is it gonna be as awesome as I think? Um the first couple I think I was too tame and I've been I've been I've had to apologize to a few people Now nice. Oh I'm excited. Those are gonna be awesome videos freaking art of part of my problem right now is that I'm trying not to leak this too much. No one is lashing back at all Really? So it's just really awkward Yeah Nice someone and they'll just be like, oh, okay I don't know if that's better or worse. Okay. Okay you guys these videos are on the schedule for I think the first one comes out Monday midnight and then I think the second one comes out Tuesday midnight So stay tuned because these are gonna be awesome videos of basically Luke going Supreme troll on people. It's gonna be it's gonna be amazing All right. Let's let's go ahead and move on I guess. Oh source two will be free to all content developers kind of a big deal Probably shouldn't miss that So I guess I would like to to draw a bit of a conclusion about steam machine here before we move on though I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna say dead in the water I'm about steam OS. Yeah valve announced a lot of upcoming games that are gonna be getting Linux support Which is super cool I Don't understand the relevance as a standalone product that exists in a vacuum Steam OS and a steam machine that runs steam OS makes sense Because it's like okay. I don't have to pay for an OS. I just saved some money on my computer yeah, but with the with the The steam link at 50 bucks delivering in my mind 90% of the experience of what a dedicated steam box can do because remember you're not buying a TV with 144 Hertz refresh rate there is no compelling reason to have higher than 60 FPS on your TV Anyway, we're talking about a little bit of extra latency most couch optimized games We're not playing CS go on the couch most couch optimized games are gonna be a more casual experience anyway, so That's right exactly So why do I need to have this utmost? absolute best performance when I can just for 50 bucks link up to a PC somewhere else and then as if It's like kind of the final nail in the coffin as if game Compatibility for the ones that are you can actually run locally isn't bad enough and yes, it's getting better But let's face it. It's not that great and videos news this week with the shield console is the answer to Who needs like is the answer for people who want to stream 4k? Well not okay not not shield console. I didn't hear anything you haven't heard about the shield console no Okay, it doesn't okay to be clear to be clear. It doesn't do it yet, but steam machines aren't coming until until oh I think November right yeah steams are coming till November now in video look how quickly they've been iterating So shield console is 200 bucks, and it doesn't stream games in 4k But it'll do 1080p 60 games if I if I recall correctly hold on I might be wrong. I might I might be wrong capable of decoding 4k 60 FPS so I can actually I can't think of a of a clear reason why it couldn't actually support 4k game stream at some point because It can decode 4k 60 FPS so this will handle all your 4k Netflix It'll handle any other cut 4k YouTube It'll handle any other kind of 4k streaming service and then again for games I Don't think that 4k gaming is there yet Personally right gaming at 4k especially the latest AAA titles is not a tremendous experience So the additional network load the additional processing load the additional hardware that you have to buy for your computer 4k 4k streamed gaming is not happening yet 4k gaming in general is not happening yet even with Titan X so You know it's happening just not to the degree that it should be it's it's not good enough that I'm ready to go for it Personally I would just run 1080p and make sure I never dip below 60 so I don't see those so I don't see those dips and stutters because it's not like Yeah, it's not like you're getting free sync or g-sync on your TV So you're gonna see that stutter it's gonna happen and I would rather have the lower resolution than the hip hiccups and stutters Yeah, so so I think that because this can handle the the 4k Media media experience and can also do 1080p 60fps streaming. I think that there are more compelling Options than a steam machine all over the place and even from valve themselves So I mean I might try out the controller just to give it a shot We've yet to see in my mind. We've yet to see a controller better than the Xbox 360 the Xbox one one is okay I don't like the dual shock shape I get cramps in my hands eventually Nvidia's controller is okay. It's not better than an Xbox 360 controller by any means. I like the integrated touchscreen That's cool. So I really want to see if valve Managed to figure out the tactile feedback of the buttons But there's a thing I already really don't like about the valve controller or the steam controller And that is the positioning of the buttons and the the joystick and also the fact that it outright doesn't have a d-pad You know if you want to if you want to play any emulated older console games or anything like that well Go die in a fire because you're not doing it on that controller. It's not happening And that's something that I actually do, you know, I probably do more Retro gaming on my TV than I do current gaming on my TV. So that's a big deal for me I do most of my current gaming on my portable. So Once this face at Linus you don't like any controllers. Absolutely not true. The Super Nintendo controller is exceptional I have like a 15 year old Super Nintendo control Well, no, how old would they be older than that 20? I have 20 year old Super Nintendo controllers that still have great tactile response on the buttons and d-pad Show me another controller that is held up that well to the test of time I also really like the Xbox 360 controller Although the d-pad is garbage as the twitch chat is Exploding with so I have an SNES controller next to my that's actually plugged directly into my media PC And then I have an Xbox 360 wireless controller that is wirelessly connected to it and that takes care of all my controller needs Yeah So we'll get into the Nvidia thing a little bit more lately or lately later later. Yeah later Our mantle SDK will be available to everyone this month. So That's cool. If you're into that that was posted by the Nati ad gaming Personally, even though game developer support has actually been way better than I ever expected for mantle Yeah, I still don't see this going anywhere Direct X 12 half has to be and and and I mean it's the Kronos group has most of mantle anyway Microsoft has included aspects of mantle in the upcoming direct 3d 12 or in the direct X 12 like Mantles gonna have to differentiate itself in a pretty spectacular way and AMD seems determined for it to not be very different from Direct X and open GL as we move forward So like mantles cool and I think it was it lit a fire under the industry and created Hype amongst users it created user demand for these low-level API's that most users would never even have an inkling of an understanding as to why they were important and AMD did a great thing for the industry there But direct X 12 is gonna have to completely fall on its face for mantle to be relevant at all. Yeah forward And they had direct X 12 demos at GDC as well It's looking like side-by-side between 11 and 12 and that were actually pretty impressive. I did I did know about that It's looking pretty good Um Wait, that one was posted by Shoot, I hate scrolling in in Google Sheets. Oh, I already said that. All right, I've gotten another one for oh wait Are you posting these in the chat? Yep. Okay. Awesome. Next one. This is a rumor. Google is reportedly preparing Android wear for iPhone and iPad This is Big so I'm gonna go ahead. I'll bring this up. So this is on Mac rumors. This is not confirmed This is a rumor, but there's a developer that's managed to sync notifications between iPhone and Android wear Involves using a protocol used by Pebble watch blipity blupity, etc, etc, etc This would be huge Because with some of the rumors circulating about the Apple watch and its battery life Although there's a new rumor that says five hours of screen on time, which is actually Significantly better than the three to four that we were hearing before That suggests that the Apple watch might not be as much of a turd as I was sort of predicting that it would Yeah If Android wear devices can be used cross-platform Apple's gonna have a real hard time selling me an Apple watch that is for sure because especially at the prices we're looking at There's rumored pricing for the Apple watch sports is rumored to be 349 with the metal versions coming in and I think it was 600 or 700 dollars and the all-gold version over $15,000 if Apple is gonna expect me to spend $700 on a watch then I'm gonna I'm gonna use whatever damn phone I want and I'm gonna have my notification Synced damn it. That is how it is going to work Otherwise, that is a that is a lot to ask me to commit to and in one ecosystem, right? Yeah So, I mean what else is there to to really say about that The developer claims that no jailbreaking was required in order to make that work Yeah, I guess I'm surprised no jailbreaking was required That's cool. I'm just surprised. Yeah, super cool. Well, it works apparently similarly to pebble, which I guess is a good time for us to get into Pebble is like You can you can just tell what a what a bigger and more organized company They have become since they first launched the pebble. So like this this Kickstarter campaign is so Beautifully orchestrated and planned. So originally it's like here's the pebble time It's awesome because color display up to I think it's I don't know if it's only the time steal that gets up to 10 hours 10 days of battery I forget I think pebble time is also has a longer battery life But forgive me if I'm wrong this new, you know notification management system blah blah blah. It's amazing. You should get one They've raised I think is it 16 or 18 million on Kickstarter making it by far By far the most funded Kickstarter campaign ever And now they're coming right back at us the next week pebble time steal which looks outstanding That's that's what I called out during the show when we were talking about that. I was like it doesn't look like they have a metal band In their Kickstarter and I was like, that's weird. And then yeah, I know they do and this was posted by the strict nine on the form I'm just gonna go ahead and pull this baby up. It looks bananas. Actually, it looks very apple watch-esque It looks very apple watch-esque Which is either a huge blow to the apple watch or a huge kudos to pebble for coming up with Such a beautiful design that's going to come in at I think it's uh, 2.99. It's going to be the street price Oh, yeah, it gets better than that So, you know that whole project aura thing from uh from google where it's like yeah modular phones Well, bam modular watch this looks amazing pebble time is going to support what they're calling smart straps so your smart strap could contain extra sensors for jogging or a Bigger battery. Oh, they're saying you can swap them in five to ten seconds So you could actually have multiple smart straps depending on what you're doing Yeah, that is like if you could have like a heart rate sensor one or an extended battery one I think that's all I'd even really want. Yeah, I feel like oh i'm working out and then oh all the other time Because I don't like charging things that is some goose bumps stuff right there like Imagining what because you look at what developers managed to do with the pebble and no disrespect to pebble They were a young company. It was uh, it was it was successful because the smartwatch market was Completely in its infancy. The pebble was not amazing Um, I I was not the only one to have an issue with a pebble eventually Mine started like bugging out on the display in their defense and the reason that I haven't really brought it up Their customer support was outstanding. They didn't even make me send my old one back They just were like can you send us a picture of the display garbled? I sent it there was a new pebble at my door within a week Like awesome, they did a great job as far as that was concerned But the pebble was not as complete or polished a product as this and you look at what developers were able to do with that thing Yeah, there was not a lot of hardware there. Well now Now we're talking now we're talking it's got a microphone. It's got smart straps I mean, are we gonna see smart straps with speakers cameras? I don't know. Oh, who knows Speakers that could be a thing. I have no idea. Are we gonna see smart straps with touch interfaces so you could like Do something they're suggesting things like gps and nfc Could be built into this like instead of this is so smart instead of putting all the doodads in the watch Like I think this is Apple's mistake. They're trying to put so much in that watch We want it to have wi-fi and bluetooth and nfc and a display and a freaking dial on the side and a new interface And we're gonna do all this stuff and it's like well, hold on a second you know You know, what if we don't uh, what if we don't need all that but just don't yeah Yeah, so this is uh, this is really cool really exciting I am apparently on the list to review at least the pebble time No idea about the pebble time steal But I certainly hope they send one of each because I want to make sure that I'm covering these as well as possible I I'm kind of a pebble fan boy. Although A lot of you have noticed i'm using a g watch r now Um, it has taken me away from the pebble the pebble platform has aged and the pebble steel wasn't enough of a step forward to To hold on to me, but pebble time looks it might be pebble time for me again Oh dang Oh dang That is what that is what makes you like the world's best sidekick is no matter how awful I am You you treat it you treat it like I said something cool Cool. I love you, man. Did in my opinion. Oh, that's nice. I love you, man Uh, what else we got here? We should have some we should have some more good stuff. Um All right Uh, so nvidia titan x this was posted by job03. Are you posting this in twitch? Yep. Yep Are you just are you in the habit now? Like do I just not have to remind you anymore or Nope, i've got every single link so far I even went and found the one for the pebble watch because that wasn't in order nice All right, old twitch chat is is freaking out with hearts Oh, well, we love you guys, too That's cute. All right. So this is the titan x. Uh, basically it's more black It's got apparently green leds in the fan now. So nvidia is like nvidia is Shaking things up. It does look beautiful Um, let's go ahead. I'm just gonna pull up. Uh, anon tech has an article with is that a white leds Titan logo, but green led fan. It does look that way doesn't it and i'm a little disappointed in them there That's a little weird. Yeah, i'm kind of hoping it's rgb Right, but that even then that might not make sense because the fan is not so So, uh Yeah At least I thought anon tech had something Uh titan x specs, uh, specul Speculation oh Snap thank you I like how um, i'm just reading the notes online as tectips forum right now actually And it says also it looks like it will have a 12 gigabyte frame buffer And without even thinking about it, my brain was like 11.5 25 No, I had people asking me that like immediately, you know what I can't I can't find I could have sworn There was uh, I could have sworn there I thought I saw it on anon tech that there was an article where they took what we knew And kind of filled in some of the we're guessing at blanks. Okay, and um, I'm not seeing that. I wonder I wonder if i'm it could be that i'm wrong and it could be that um, Yeah, it could be i'm wrong it could be that it was taken down i'm not sure but but basically there's a article by ryan smith on Anon tech nvidia announces g force gtx titan x and it has a spec break breakdown That is the one i'm looking for. Why can I not find that? There we go. All right, so let's pull this up So the speculation is that uh, it is going to no we know it has a 12 gig frame buffer Okay, so here you can see what we know and what's a question mark ryan smith's a good guy He doesn't mind me using his chart um So he's guessing at 384 bit memory interface and this is this is a very good bet Based on that medium-sized maxwell that we already have in the gtx 980 and 970 Uses a 256 bit interface and then some tom foolery with the uh with the 970 to partially disable Whatever. Anyway, it's a 256 bit interface for most of the memory on the 970 and all of the 980 So in order to get more memory bandwidth on titan x titan x Either they're going to clock it higher which to my knowledge, um, there's nothing available with higher than 7 gigahertz gddr5 That's basically the ceiling for that technology We know that nvidia doesn't have any kind of stacked memory technology coming out on titan x that would have been rumored at some point Hasn't been so we're guessing 384 bit. We know it has 12 gigs of vram. We know the transistor count is 8 billion Making this big maxwell, you know the supercomputer tesla maxwell But for gamers, um, it's getting 96 rops. That's a guess from ryan smith um and Should be on the same manufacturing process as GTX 980 because we haven't heard anything about nvidia launching anything higher than that and launch price I like ryan's estimate here a large large number Yeah, because I have heard everything from a thousand dollars to 1400 dollars in the rumor mill and I have no knowledge whatsoever. I mean When titan launched a thousand dollars for a gaming card was insane and the Sort of the answer from nvidia was well, this isn't a gaming card This is a kuda development and yes dual precision You know compute card and rendering workstation the titan x is not positioned that way though it Look at the photo Uh, where's the photo the photo shows on the box. It says like Designed for gamers or something. Let me find this photo Yeah, i'll try and find the ones on tech gauge. I think right Inspired by gamers built by nvidia like that's that's gamer marketing. Well, you can't even Remember before it was a little kind of back and forth this time. That's gamer marketing No, nvidia screwed this up on titan z too quite frankly because they couldn't decide Yeah, there it is inspired by gamers built by nvidia They couldn't decide on titan z because the the whole announcement was like the world's most powerful gaming card And then when pressed they're like, oh well, it's you know for kuda Yeah Because it was like three thousand dollars at launch and made absolutely no sense Like I do wonder if titan z was just nvidia kind of testing the waters like I think what are people going to tolerate? How much will people spend? Um, I wouldn't be surprised to see titan x more than a thousand dollars, but I would be I would be happy To see see happy is such a funny word for this. I would be I would be um Some of my faith would be restored if it launched at a thousand instead of more because looking at what we know about titan x specs and what we can estimate based on titan versus uh versus uh gk 104 Uh, so gk gk 100 versus gk 104 um Or was it gm? I can't remember whatever 100 versus 104 of the last gen. I would expect it to be about you know, 40 percent faster Than a gtx 980 which is now we're talking gm 204 versus gm 200 Um, so if it costs 40 percent more then that would be like, okay We're not going to pay a huge premium for this But if you're getting double precision nvidia could go well, hey, that's worth a couple hundred bucks and you know, hey, it's blacker That's worth a bit. Anyway, at least you think So we'll see what they do Like I said earlier on the stream for those of you who missed it. Apparently our card is inbound So luke has his work cut out for him when he gets back And i'm gonna have to completely rearrange our video schedule that I spent like two hours on this week because we're trying to make Room for for buffering some content so Yeah, we can just release like 16 videos about titan x I remember it titan x shroud titan x heat pipes top five Top five screws that hold together titan x Not all of the screws just the top five top five games that push the titan x's frame buffer more than other ones Oh my goodness. You know what you are starting to sound like a youtuber I'm kind of sad though. I'm still gonna do it because it's a really cool looking card But uh, I went by evj and they have their 980 kingpin And I was like, oh cool because I haven't actually seen that one yet And I was gonna do like a little mini video on it tomorrow and i'm still gonna do it but That video is so hampered by the titan x news Yeah, man Oh, well, I'm gonna do it Yeah, man, oh geez oh well, but the suggestion i'll call it the titan x prequel Because I can assure you that evga at some level is privy to what nvidia's got going on So if they thought it was worth it to release a 980 kingpin Then this is the first hint that titan x is going to be a heck of a lot more expensive than 980 Yeah, because I said yeah, I might have said classified. I meant kingpin. We have a 980 classified. Are you drunk? I meant kingpin. Oh, you meant kingpin. No, you said kingpin. Yeah. Okay. Good. Yeah. No, you got it Right 100 everything was 100% okay until just now. Okay Dang because a kingpin typically carries what a 50 hundred dollar premium over a classified Uh, it's it's a lot the the 980 kingpin is 800 dollars Yeah, so if this is only 200 more i'm willing to bet this isn't only 200 more Right, so we'll see We shall see um Let's get into a little bit more nvidia news So just because you've been like on flights and packing and all that stuff you you missed you missed out big so nvidia Pretty important. Yeah, nvidia announced the nvidia shield again Um remember guys for those of you who don't remember this the original shield handheld was called the shield And then they renamed it shield portable when they launched the shield tablet and now we're getting the nvidia shield Which is a console it does not have a display I believe it comes. Yeah, so it's priced at 199 with a game controller And uh 50 games including crisis 3 and borderlands the pre-sequel I'm assuming that's the grid subscription that you get with it and i'm not sure how long You get a grid subscription with it because I know that they were talking about at some point Uh shield portable and shield tablet getting six months or something like that Three months maybe something whatever they were getting like a window this one. I don't know Maybe it just comes with a grid subscription anyway, so this was posted by giving tnt on the forum Ah, thank you. So so shield is going to have a tegra x Uh tegra x1 processor so nvidia is claiming uh twice the power of an xbox 360 at one fifth of the power consumption It is going to be capable of decoding 4k at 60 fps It is going to be the first 4k android tv And it's it's really funny someone put together a hilarious cut up of jensen saying tv tv tv tv tv tv tv tv Like it seemed like when you watch it like that It seems like every word out of his freaking mouth during this thing must have been tv tv tv television tv television android tv tv like so they they're really pitching it as like an android tv device That's capable of 4k, but it's also Um, it's also very much a console. So Uh razer was showing off in their suite and I really do think razer's console is completely Completely dead in the water at this point. Um, if it's an extra if it's an extra hundred bucks For this thing which is not running a snapdragon aida, whatever the heck And uh and is going to be able to legitimately run some serious games at 1080p and some not serious games that who knows Maybe you can run games at 4k as well because it does have hdmi 2.0 out So you can legit hook this up to your 4k tv and have that 4k experience Um, and so anyway, so it's got the gpu horsepower and sorry right back to the razor booth So they showed off a really cool arena fighter based game that was for concurrent players Um, this is what android consoles have been building to android consoles if they get game support for actual legitimate multiplayer games up till now there hasn't been a whole lot of like Sit around with your bros and play games on controllers android games if nvidia is pushing this and boy Have they ever demonstrated that they're pushing this ever since they announced console mode for the original shield And and then it was like this stupid kind of experience where you have to get like an on-the-go Adapter and like a usb ethernet thing and then you could run 1080p 60 instead of 720p And like you had to you know charge it up before you did it and then okay Well, hold on maybe if you use a splitter So I use a splitter in a powered hub in order to charge the shield and run it at the same time But and then and then it's like, okay, so yeah, that's like pretty doofusy Then we got shield tablet where they were really pitching using it as a console And hey now we've got support for multiple wireless controllers. We've got our own controller There's all this awesome stuff nvidia didn't have their own controller before they are pushing hard So now there's a dedicated console. It's 40 plus hours of battery life on the controller It comes with a remote that includes voice activation so you can use all your google now nonsense with it um And grid grid's a big deal Nvidia's claiming 150 milliseconds of latency playing games remotely, which again No, csgo forget it not going to happen But for racing games for third person, you know adventure games That's going to be very playable and I know this because i've been in the grid beta for over a year now It is surprisingly not bad Very surprisingly not bad and i'm not as close to an nvidia data center as some people would be Right. Once they start putting grid centers around the planet We are going to be talking about especially in in places like in small dense places like I don't know the uk or japan You could be within a distance that would give you you know fiber latencies in the you know Five millisecond or lower range of of a grid center if it comes to that And it may actually for many gamers, especially casual ones who might not play a particular game Like that's something to consider for the gamers that are saying, you know online streaming gaming is never going to happen Not everyone buys a game for 60 bucks and then puts 150 hours into it Yeah, some people are more like a casual browser And they don't want to buy every game But if they have you know 50 games or 100 or 150 or 500 games at their fingertips They might play this one for an hour or they might play that one for a couple hours And this is going to really appeal to those people. Yeah They should just start installing them on all the tesla charging stations Ha that actually would be kind of awesome So they would be like everywhere. Yeah That would be great Apparently the grid service is going to come with unreleased games that will be on shield at launch Remember Nvidia's got those deep developer relationships Yeah, they do Imagine that and what's also really cool about grid and again why I want home grid This is still not the grid i'm looking for I want home grid where you just like pile in a pile of gp Us and then you have basically unlimited horsepower that you can divvy up however you want I mean you we could potentially be looking at you know every game on max no matter what because they can throw as much gpu Horsepower at it as they want and yeah, it'll be it'll be 1080p 1080p 60 I believe is the premium service with the normal service being 720p 30 So for small people with smaller tvs effectively Max details though. It's gonna be nice You know, maybe we should do like maybe we should probably do a straw poll on this straw poll And I want your guys honest answer I know a lot of the time we do like just troll straw polls or we'll have like a like a troll answer Yep Dang it. I typed in the wrong thing and no. Yes. I want to leave this page Okay, will you subscribe? Okay, what price? To subscribe to grid Premium, that's what I want to know. So just for context guys. Netflix is going to be what eight bucks a month? Amazon do they still include their their prime video service with a prime membership? I can't remember. I think so. I don't know because that's not available in canada. Yeah, so but I don't I think I think they do Okay, so netflix is going to be eight eight bucks a month Um, let's see. What what else is like what else could we really compare it to hulu is in that same kind of price range or hulu plus Rather is in that same price roll. Uh crunchy roll is in the neighborhood of about eight bucks a month or ten bucks a month Or something like that Vessel will be much cheaper than that. Yeah vessels three But vessel doesn't have any exclusive content. It's just early access. So like whatever Um, i'm talking about like exclusive content where you're actually going to be able to get a free Um, i'm talking about like exclusive content where you're actually like buying content for your subscription So, okay netflix hulu mainly hbo go Oh, yeah, that's that's uh, uh, what's the new what's the new thing? HBO now which is going to be different from hbo go is apparently I could be launching in april for fifteen dollars a month That's not that cheap. That's yeah, so um It's not clear what content will be included. Sorry, we're switching news topics. Okay, whatever Let's do the hbo thing because it kind of ties into this It's not clear what content will be included. But in my mind, I really do wonder if it's going to be everything At fifteen dollars a month We're talking like you're paying a dollar per thing. You're going to watch if you're watching just new stuff and you don't follow every hbo show like Yeah, that is some pretty premium pricing they got going on there and um, but it's it's it's uh Blah blah. Yeah, so the article from end gadget. This is posted by roheath kumar sp um, so the article from end gadget speculates that Might only have older content because hbo probably doesn't want their entire viewer base to cut the cable because I suspect hbo Subscriptions are the only thing keeping a lot of people from cord cutting Yeah, so 15 bucks a month for that. So let's go ahead Let's let's let's do like a few different price points here. Let's go less than five bucks Okay, let's go. Um, we're talking about grid right now. Yeah. Yeah five to five to ten Uh, let's go ten to uh, fifteen Let's go. Let's let's see would people pay like 15 to 25 dollars for all you can eat game service Um at the cost of needing to deal with 150 milliseconds of latency because remember you can go buy csgo And install that on your computer and then you can play everything else on grid if you don't care And then let's go. Um I i'm not even gonna have an option over 50 because I don't think they're gonna charge anywhere near that much Um, and i'm just gonna have an option that says no way People are calling me out for being tired I I have to be the the only like desk chair thing in here is being currently taken up by brandon because he needs to edit So i'm like laying in bed. I had two hours of sleep last night and I was walking around the conference all day today So yes, i'm extremely tired. I'm sorry for the yawning because I was I was talking to you at like Whatever time that was that was like midnight after midnight my time. Yeah Yeah, it was like one my time. It was like I think I finally went to bed at like 5 a.m local time And then I had to wake up at like seven Either either either your boss is like a terrible person or you're extremely dedicated All right now I I I i'm can you can you see the uh, can you see the stream right now? I I want to talk about I want to talk about this grid premium thing as the results roll in so it looks like They're gonna have a lot of customers. This is something I wasn't expecting our audience. I was expecting to go hardcore. No way Or like less than five bucks But you guys are giving us some real interesting feedback. It looks like a clear Over 50 percent of you are willing to pay between five and fifteen dollars for an on-demand gaming service This could be no way is only 25 percent. Wow. That's right This could be a so so hold on. Let's look at this a different way. Hold on So 31 plus 25 plus 8 plus 2 so plus 10 is 35 is 67 two Thirds of you are willing to pay more than five dollars for grid premium a month That is a way easier to do if you just did the negative If you just added no way and below five dollars together and then took that away from 100 Uh either way though that blows me away Nvidia in if invidia's long-term plan and we've been talking about this for a long time, right luke if Invidia's long-term plan like the start of wensho is to not make graphics cards anymore as their business Yeah, this is it. This is the time it just happened Yeah Because like a subscription service like this Is the difference between being a company that makes widgets and being a company with like big massive revenue To continue developing the service and to like I mean you look at what happened with netflix all of a sudden They go from we're a streaming service to we Develop original programming. Yeah, like invidia could even get into games at that point considering how much they're already Have their fingers pretty deep into development of games and the development of game technologies and stuff like that But then again think about this imagine a world where invidia gets to make their own games and how poorly those will run on competing hardware Yeah Yep, but they would probably only release through the grid service. I was gonna say imagine a world where the only way to get access to a particular game This is the invidia console grid is the console that android console is almost like hedging their bets So you can like play stupid android games or or maybe great android games or whatever invidia seems to not care about that anymore So you can play android games on it or whatever But you're gonna need this To get grid and people are going to buy it. Yeah Very interesting to me, especially if you look at how competitive their products are already with other devices Like shield tablet is a good tablet Shield tablet with a five dollar a month grid service is an unbelievable value Yeah Scary, it's kind of scary. Like I I like invidia as much as the next guy But they also they also kind of scare me sometimes Yeah, I don't know. I was talking to someone the other day about how like I I maybe this was even on wansha Wow, it might be that's awkward. Um about how like I'm getting a little frustrated with google because they're getting They kind of dropped that do no evil Thing and they're kind of doing a lot of evil lately and like I'd way rather microsoft be the big mega corporation Because while I might not be a huge fan all the time They don't seem to do like massively horrible things Well, they've they've gotten past it Yeah, they've gotten over the hump It's like it's almost like you have to get you have to become accustomed You have to grow into your britches. You have to become accustomed to being a mega power and then it's like Okay You know, maybe we maybe we just don't need to crush everything Maybe we're okay and like they can also make a product and we can make a product Yeah, yeah, and that's cool I don't know if google will ever be okay with that though I think google's new motto needs to be uh world domination or nothing Domination or nothing They seem to be they seem to be headed that way. Don't they? I mean they should just change it I uh Someone in the chat developers developers developers That should be like pebble's motto I don't want to talk about pebble anymore on the stream, but they really do seem to be focused on here's a platform Like make it make it awesome. We'll make it as awesome as we can but like you guys make it more awesome and that's great Um, okay, we should probably do our sponsors Speaking of of making things awesome. Actually, you're gonna be kind of I didn't add you to the sponsor scenes So you're just not here but feel free to feel free to be a disembodied voice So our first sponsor today is linda.com. So linda.com is not exactly a new sponsor for us If you guys haven't heard of linda.com. 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It's over at youtube.com Hyper x and if you're having trouble like finding it I know like social bread blade freaks out if I try and do that youtube.com Kingston hyper x also takes you to the channel and finally luke you are hardcore missing out And i'm really sorry that you have to miss out on this the loot crate Yeah, yeah, sure. Uh nick's gonna come in and hand cam it up for me, but I am unboxing this month's I feel abandoned You I went to loot crate today and tried to like talk to them, but they were being swarmed Yeah, I bet was super full. There was no there was no talking to them Oh, I can't use that camera because it's being used by another application you know what's awkward we should talk to our cameraman because um, i'm pretty sure that that like whatever camera nick is holding right now has better color than The black magic. Oh, it's it's because I it's because I did it. Yeah, they could fix it. Okay Well, i'm gonna have to uh, the skype is grabbing those so uh, yeah, it can't it can't have that All right. Well, i'm gonna open up the loot crate and i'm just gonna hold it up for you guys Nick can you not put the camera where you just did? Wait, what? Oh you can see it. Oh Right luke's watching me on this camera and nick just like puts it down on the table. It's like What a freaking troll. Look at that guy. What a guy What a guy that nick guy I hate that guy. I love that guy. I love everyone today I'm just having like i'm having a love day. We uh, we filmed channel super fun today. It was bananas We did the soccer poppers. Oh, I missed that I was hoping you guys were gonna wait. No, no, sorry. We had to we had to get her done It fun we we went like tournament style again Um, you know those wreck everyone, you know those old pies that were in the fridge from like that expired in like december Oh, no, all i'm gonna say is the video involves those pies. Oh no That's not good. There's no way that's good so The upcoming channel super fun is gonna be bananas, but let's uh, let's open up this loot crate first So I I usually nick sends me notes on these things and i'm sure that i'm supposed to know stuff Go through it. That's like the whole thing with loot crate, but no, it would be nice if I knew at least the theme Right. Okay. Yeah, we're usually Usually I don't uh, so this is february's play crate. All right, so let me go. Oh, these are awesome It has a hex bug Oh, that's cool. These things are freaking bananas. Uh, we actually did uh, we speaking of channel super fun Yeah, it's not the same kind of hex bug. So it's uh, this is the hex bug Ant so we did uh, we did hex bug racing the ones that just kind of vibrate on the table and then they uh, They they kind of like move around And they kind of move around on the table. So we did hex bugs bug racing before but this is a new kind of hex bug I'm sure it's a new one And it's packaged extremely well, I claim to be a professional unboxer and I cannot get this out of the box well, right I like that. It's crate packing simulator and I think the box is actually uh, uh, like a board game Do you notice that? No Yeah, I have not noticed not not for the bug for the whole loot. Yeah, I see that It's a new thing that isn't this ant. Oh my goodness. Look at this. It has little rolly wheels That this thing is adorable Whoa, it's fast. Whoa. Yeah, holy cow. That's sick. Okay, hold on Let me uh, i'm just gonna put it on the back of my laptop so you guys can see how fast it is Ah Ah no Oh, I love I love hex bugs Okay, that's clearly not gonna work what i'm trying to do right now I'm gonna put a little wire in the front so it doesn't get stuck on anything so it bounces off. All right What else we got in here? Is that a book? How do they include a book In this like a full. Wow, that's a full book. No, like an actual book. It's uh ready player one New york times bestseller by Ernest Cline. That's a really good book Like legitimately That is incredible. They must have had this done as a completely custom print for them because um The grown-ups harry potter apparently because there is no price on it This seems to like there's there's usually a price like an isbn. Blabity. Blabity. Whatever. Well, let me look it up on amazon I know that book like 100. I know that book. That's awesome All right, I was like the cubo getting it now. We've got uh, create your own vinyl art toy money world That's pretty cute. So this is a mini munner that it can money martin mini money It comes with uh, three markers black red and blue and you go ahead and like draw on it That's pretty adorable. And then what else we got this looks like a little poster I'm gonna go ahead try and open this baby. I like these loot crate sponsor spots We always go way over time on them, but we do they're just kind of fun. So ready player one is $17 Wow I don't I think loot crate increased their pricing though, right? I don't think it's 1337 anymore Yeah, but it's I think that's only in canada and I think that's because of the dollar issues, right? I'm not sure though. This is cute so it's like I don't know I it's console or something It's pacman. Yeah, that's fine. Uh, what else we got? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm not holding it up to you I'm holding it up to that item. Yeah. All right, so crate packing simulator 2015 game instructions Welcome to loot crates first original board games. You can see there's like game board in there The goal is simple be the first player to have all five items in your crate Use the rock paper scissors dice to determine who will make the first move Once the first player is chosen continue to use rock paper scissors dice with these numerical values to move your game token So depending on who plays what you move one two or three land on a star pick up one item land on a circle dice Battle blah blah, et cetera, et cetera. Oh neat So it seems to include items from previous loot crates like the eight bit glasses So I guess this is like if you are already subscribed or something then that's good Yeah, all right. It comes with super fight the loot crate deck This is a 100 card version of the viral card game super fight designed exclusively for loot crate by skybound These cards are only available in this exclusive deck Geez this one's got a lot. There's a button. Yeah Um, there's the rock paper scissors dice. So it's got rocks papers and scissors on it Maybe everything is included with this one. I don't see eight bit glasses though um interesting What else we got? There's a firefly online buddhist temple concept art thing Firefly online is that an upcoming game or something? Yeah, man. I haven't even heard of that Yeah, dude. I hope it's not as bad as the movie. I never finished the movie I don't know if I told you that yeah that that did not happen and then their uh, their loot crate magazine has a history of game controllers Cool It might be as bad as the movie I since oh and game pieces for the board game I sincerely hope it's not as bad as the movie because oh man like I I really enjoyed the show Uh, anyway, right use offer code linus to save 10% on loot crate. Um, I really enjoyed the show But that movie was bad It did not know what it was. It had no identity. It had no charm It just it was just like trying too hard to be mission impossible Kind of thing, right? I still liked it. But like yeah, I liked it because i'm a fanboy of firefly Not because it's yeah anyways Yeah, I just looked it up and apparently it's a thing already Oh, I didn't know it was released but it looks super not good All right, then well at any rate everything else in that loot crate was pretty fun Yeah Um, it might be good. I don't know This is kind of uh, so we'll get into rapid fire topics because we're actually coming pretty close to the end of the show here WhatsApp now permanently bans users using third-party apps Facebook has been cracking down on the developers of third-party apps and now they are Just outright banning people who insist on using them by blacklisting their phone numbers So while you could get a new phone number, um, it is going to be a real pain in the butt To try to use third-party apps on whatsapp. You must use the official app from now on this is posted by victoria's secret on the forum Did you post this one in chat? I did already. Wow. I don't even see you moving. You're like a freaking ninja over there I'm a ghost. Hey, are we both wearing the same shirt today? We are actually nice Yes, nice. I made sure that I had a proper show shirt. So I'm not wearing the same shirt today I made sure that I had a proper show shirts. And then when I got here, I realized that my keep on digging shirt is a medium Nice that is gonna be hot That is like gonna be some sexy stuff going on over there I am liking it already. I haven't even seen these goods. Oh jeez Well, you have yeah, okay, well not not just not today video. Yeah, no, that's true Yeah, who says I didn't video it? They make real small cameras these days. Oh my god Ah huawei is the next nexus maker confirms kevin yang from iSupply This is posted by victoria's secret google partnering up with a chinese oem for the new nexus so huawei is the biggest competitor to xiaomi and They're also apparently partnering with lg on another nexus device later in 2015 Um the speculation this the original article here is from gizmo kina I'm gonna go ahead and uh throw that up on the screen here But the speculation is that maybe we will see a return to affordable nexus devices Uh, this doesn't seem to be yeah. Here we go. Could huawei be the next nexus maker? Um, I would really like to see that in my mind the nexus 6 was a disaster between lollipop Me seeing people refer to it as android vista And and just the fact that that hardware was so expensive for something that didn't offer a tangibly better experience than um You know other similarly priced pieces of hardware. I just couldn't get into the nexus 6 Very much prefer the droid turbo although i've been using the moto e and so far I can tell you guys It's 150 phone Um, whatever my expectations were going in They were too high um Yeah, i'm not too impressed with it so far, but I gotta i'm in the video I'm gonna try to do a better job of understanding in my brain space that it's a 150 dollar phone In my brain space. I honestly like between you and me luke Um, I have been seriously putting off doing phone reviews It's not like there haven't been phones that I could look at I could have done a later review of the 6 plus Um, I could have done the z3 compact something people have been asking me to review forever Um, you know, I could have done the note 4 something we we definitely had access to and I was just like Eh, I did the nexus 6 big phones are still too big. So There's that so my note 4 review would just be that in a nutshell but with like touch whiz over top of it. Yeah Oh, no um, so I've been putting it off because I love the droid turbo and I just hate switching my phone Especially because I like using that phone so much. So the moto e has been a rude awakening There was a kaylee cosplayer So I took a picture with her and I had brandon take the picture on my phone and brandon was like, wow Yeah, you're right. The camera's really bad It's like yeah, man, it's it's it's horrible I think I think the moto e second gen actually I like the camera better than your old moto x Probably it's not that bad, but it has no flash Yeah, no flash How am I gonna how am I gonna have a flashlight when i'm crawling around in my attic? That's so stupid How much does an led cost? Not much are you telling that much? Anyway, uh, gabenuul. This is posted by ahming on the forum says and I quote zero percent of people get motion sick Using the new vive vr headset. That was a collaborative effort between valve and htc Holy balls, so they're using a completely new system for motion tracking That they're calling lighthouse and the way that this works is it actually has Um, I forget if they are sensors or emitters But either the headset has emitters and their sensors are the other way around Um, but it has these devices in the corners of the room that are constantly monitoring Where you are in relation to them and they can even track not just the headset itself But also peripheral devices or even multiple people with headsets and peripherals. This looks bananas oculus had a window Where there was going to be no competition and the rift was going to win that window is closing extremely quickly Windows gone. Uh, did you I don't I don't know if you've heard this but the rift like in What seems deaf what in what definitely seems like a response to the vive the rift? They've kind of stepped back and been like, whoa We might have set a release date that might be a little earlier than we expected So we might be releasing later and all this kind of stuff and they're kind of pushing theirs back now Which means that the vive might actually have a consumer release before? CV one Oculus might have just got super wrecked It's it's a lot of it's still kind of rumor mill stuff. But yeah, it was late 2015. That was the plan Yeah, and then there there's been rumor mill going around that they're going like hmm We might have kind of estimated that wrong We might have to do it a little bit later, which could be really bad because vive is apparently ready to go Wow, I you know what for me? It's gonna come down to this like I'll probably get them all anyway because to review them But the one that I buy with my personal credit card Not the company card to sit and collect dust at the office because it's not mine The one that I buy and take home the one that I like order two of one on each card Where I'm gonna need one and we're gonna need one for you know testing, you know Graphics card performance with VR headsets like like we're gonna need all of them at the office the one that I buy Is gonna be the one that is released and supports Eve Valkyrie Elite Dangerous and at a later date stars citizen because we are nowhere near the amount of graphics horsepower to run that game and nowhere Near release elite dangerous and Eve Valkyrie whatever supports those if it's $200 I'll buy it if it's $300 I'll buy it and if it's $500, I'm going to buy it one thing that's gonna be interesting is Valve obviously really good relationship with a lot of different publishers but relationship Oculus is becoming a publisher and I believe is Oculus not publishing Valkyrie. I Don't remember. I think Oculus might be publishing Valkyrie meaning that it might not go to Vive I I know I think it was going to Morpheus or something else But yeah, I think they might be able to lock that down which is gonna make this really unfortunate But really interesting at the same time and could kind of start a war between Vive and rift which would be pretty interesting to see I'm very very happy that this happened because I'm going to places like CES and seeing the sheer amount of VR stuff that was there. That was just all garbage Was super disappointing because I like I went to CES and was like, okay This is gonna be sick because I'm gonna see the new revision of the Oculus which is gonna be great the Oculus rift Which is gonna be great And then I'm gonna see all this other stuff and I'm excited to see the competition and I got to CES and I was Like there is no competition There I am NOT seeing the competition because it is not here because it doesn't exist and then now finally there's one that can push them and Apparently really freaking hard Which is great. I'm so happy this happened. I'm liking this. I'm stoked which I am. You're right It's a co-publishing deal and so I I may not get okay. I'll settle for Elite Dangerous then Are you gonna buy it by the way? Have you tried it? Elite Dangerous? Yeah, I've tried it a little bit. It seems actually pretty sick. I'll very likely buy it. Okay, cool Well, we should we should start playing like seriously playing around the same time so we can like bro it up You know, it's funny So many people so many people were like really confused by that that spat that we had at the end of that tech wiki video The what? Oh, oh, yeah. Okay. So I want to I want to go on the record and clarify that Um, Luke was going to host that video that was the plan But Luke was really sick and lost his voice So I had to come host it and then fractal Josh from fractal put Luke up to quitting like on camera in the middle of me filming and then The plan from Josh's side was for me to not know it was happening But that's dumb. So Nick told me so the whole thing was completely staged so so I think we I think some people were like some people were like That was really like awkward and hard to watch I think we might have overdone a little bit and we probably should have we probably should have clarified at the end That like that didn't happen Yeah, because I thought you did I didn't even know because I I walked out of the door and then as some people noticed I wasn't wearing shoes So so I walked out of the door and I just kind of like stood on the on the mat outside of the door With my ear to the door waiting for you to be done But I couldn't really hear what you were saying and I could just tell that you were talking So I had no idea that there wasn't a clarification until it went live which was kind of hilarious Because the sheer amount of like forum PMs tweets Just everything that I got was just insane and I loved it where people would be like well He walked out not wearing shoes and with a mic pack on his hip. So it's probably fine Awesome, uh-oh Nick wanted me to let you guys know that the merch dot-linus-tech-tips.com the store has been restocked I've had a lot of people messaging me being like yo, you're at the end of your videos You're always like hey, you could buy a t-shirt like this one. I went in your store. There's like no t-shirts, dude I was like Yeah, we have a new rep at at district lines Apparently lanyards are gonna be coming soon I had sort of forgotten about that so that's that's hoping I was gonna be able to give some away at PAX East But they didn't come quite fast enough. Yeah, that's a bummer. We have a new shirt design coming like one of the one of the ongoing jokes here for Let me see if I can find it one of the ongoing jokes here at Lenis Media Group is we don't sleep and sleep is for Sleep is for wusses. What do you think Luke? Should I tease the artwork because I think it's amazing Sure. Yeah, no, that's cool. Okay. I'm gonna see if I can I think I think Nick messaged it to me Um Bah I'm really frustrated. I can't find it Oh The problem is I talked to Nick way too much He would have used push right Probably but it might not have been sent to him it might have been sent to him through some form of hosting Oh balls Let me see I'll see if I can find it anyway in the meantime I'll do another rapid-fire thing if you if you want to look for it, then I'll yeah, I'm looking for it right now Okay, Google is apparently Headlines a little bit misleading here. This is probably the most difficult thing to find It misleading here. This is posted by Victoria's Secret I'll go ahead and I'll do the post if you're looking for this then. Yeah. Okay. Okay So Google is apparently working on a technology Or at least has published a paper about a technology that would allow it to tell whether facts on the internet are actually true and this is a hundred percent theoretical now, but could be both amazing and Absolutely terrifying in the future. So go ahead and pull up the article on new scientist.com But and again all these all these are so sensationalist Google wants to rank websites based on facts Not links or traffic or popularity. Well, hold on. Hold on a second They haven't they haven't said that but what they're trying to figure out is how to make how to check a website's Um General accuracy by taking facts that they know like line of Sebastian's birthday is August 20th If that was posted on that website Then that would be like like a like a veracity score like that would be a truth score And then the higher a websites or web pages truth score The higher it would be ranked because the better the likelihood that the other information on it is true And that seems to be how they are planning to have this work and this is incredibly cool I mean, there's a couple so, you know sites like the onion are probably gonna have a much harder time getting good search rankings because You know a lot of that a lot of that traffic still comes from people who don't know that the onion is nonsense Yeah, and so when something goes hyper viral and it's a fake news story It's gonna it's gonna hurt sort of that business I guess but oh well, I suppose But the bigger thing to me is this could hurt And I don't want to I don't want this to turn into a religious debate, okay, that's not the objective here Yeah, I'm going there with this. So if a site Had information on it that was clearly factually inaccurate like dinosaurs never existed for example Oh, geez, it would allow Google to bury other information on the site and present it as Not fact and it would take information from sites that contain facts like that dinosaurs existed and It would take those articles and call them fact and I'm not gonna I'm not weighing in on this debate I'm not getting involved in this but just kind of did no No, I'm not gonna say where I stand on it But what I'm going to say is that it could create a situation where the beliefs of people Whether you know where something is hotly debated Okay, where the beliefs of people could be undermined by Google sorting based on The fact sorting might ignore those things though might manually ignore those things. Do you think it will? Because there's interesting stuff. I I don't know if it will or not. I doubt it. Come on Well, I don't know filtering for religious stuff might be a really good PR move for Google to do and is actually fairly understandable But another thing that could be kind of an issue is rumors. Yeah, rumor mill websites There's a lot of really big rumor mill websites WCCF tech is largely rumor mill stuff for graphics cards. Yeah What happens with rumors are those facts? No, no, but are they lies? Really fake necessarily So there's not really this raises up this this is like we're gonna have kettles of fish to boil for for weeks on weeks on yes When we when it when an if they decide to start implementing something like this So I'll be very interested to like Oh man, like there's so many good things that can come of it, you know, like are carrots bad for you? if Google could just if Google could just destroy the search rankings of anyone that says carrots are bad for you or is Oxygenated water gonna help you perform better at sports could help for Yeah, like basically what you're saying, but more specifically just medical things in general because so much medical who Bob of all of All over the internet. Yes, it's it's it's crazy So if they could help people and apparently they've looked into working with the Mayo Clinic already Okay, so like health stuff is a big deal like they I know I think they've actually worked with the Mayo Clinic on certain things So like like health information is gonna be like a really really Huge part of this like if because you know, you know those businesses that are structured like creative A complete BS product and then create an entire network of websites about reviewing that product and giving it positive reviews and fake testimonials so that it clutters up the search results that is What this needs to destroy? Well, like yeah It would be nice if Google could start hunting out. No, Google probably won't do this But it would be nice if I guess Amazon could do it But I actually don't even think Amazon would do it But hunting out fake reviews because that's going to be a really big issue Yeah, big problem huge percentages of reviews are fake. Oh, yeah, which is not not cool at all Well, I think that's pretty much it. We're we're an hour and a half in here and It's been a it's been a great show and we've enjoyed it very very much Lee And I think we will we will see you guys. We'll see you guys next week same bad time same bad channel Did you have anything to add? I mean, are you looking forward to the rest of the show? Yeah I said this a little bit earlier, which was kind of we we missed the boat a little bit. We went to the wrong parade GDC was where all the the fun ended up being apparently a lot of computer hardware vendors actually bailed out last minute So like Nvidia was supposed to be here, right? Yeah, they're always and then yeah, and then not that long ago They bailed out because they did their launch at GDC, right? They did the launch at GDC and they have their own event coming in like two weeks Yeah, so like a lot of different hardware vendors actually didn't end up showing up So I was pretty worried like at one point in time today. I was legitimately going through and being like we are screwed We're not gonna get half of the videos that we need And then someone pointed me out into this like what is that noise? Sorry? I'm playing with the thing I'm Luke. Oh geez One of that that sounded horrible one of the People that I met up with pointed me out to this like corner that was hidden behind the twitch booth and like Spotswood tech benches is there. I Know he's in partnership with EK water blocks They have a lot of different things going on in the community I'm in partnership with EK water blocks. They they like have one booth together nice EVGA is there And or max is there they don't have anything new but they're there PNY is there like like that's it's it's where all like the all like the little tech companies kind of huddled together Yeah, so Yeah, put a 290 X in the middle. Yeah It was and is close I think there's like exactly enough stuff for us to make exactly the amount of videos that we need to make But like there should have been an abundance, but then GDC was crazy. One of the reasons why is Pax East was only 11 months ago. It should have been 12 months ago. Oh interesting. It wasn't a year ago They they moved it because it was on spring break or something before Or what maybe maybe it wasn't exactly a month difference or something like that. So it brought it much closer to GDC And it brought it closer to CES So it's harder for hardware companies which are gonna have bigger development times feel to actually have something and a lot of the gaming guys are pulling their hair out because they Flew directly from GDC to Pax East and are hosting again, which is wow Crazy. Yeah, like there's a lot of those booth guys that haven't had a break They they hosted GDC. They flew they set up they hosted Pax East Like absolutely nuts. So it's a pretty crazy timing. Yeah But yeah, there's some cool stuff. There's a hardware company that I didn't even know existed. They're very very new I think they were founded in 2014 They're a Korean company that makes RAM and it's Easily some of the best RAM that I've ever seen and like every single one of their different kits are some of the best RAM I've ever seen in terms of like aesthetics, right? Yes So yeah, we're gonna be we'll have a video from them, which will be pretty cool. All right Well, we will see you guys next week and thank you very much for tuning in and for those of you who missed it The archive will be going up sometime tonight. I've got badminton tonight though so it'll be probably a little bit on the later side especially because I have to stitch together two chunks of show because because Fuck magic. All right. Peace out Yep, you gotta do the outro thing. I'm doing it. I got this Well, actually We did not bad this week considering that We only had one and a half posts and The stream died at the beginning. All right sponsors Linda.com Pax East Loot Crate Linda.com slash Pax What what is that? That's the Linda.com URL for the Pax sponsorship Oh, oh, that's right. They sponsored Pax like at the last second didn't they? Yep, that's cool. I didn't even have a URL I didn't even have a URL all of today. So I was guessing it and I was wrong I did Linda.com slash Linus and then they were like nope Linda.com slash Pax Oh, so we're gonna fix that and post luckily I was like there might be a corrected one down here every single time that I did it So we're just gonna put the corrected one there Wow All right. All right later Bye. Oh guys, sorry. No after party today. I gotta go to badminton