Razer’s New Projector Turns Your Whole Room Into a Battlefield
Razer revealed Project Ariana, its new Chroma-enabled, whole-room projector that reacts in real-time, surrounding users in video and lighting effects during game play.
On top of its new Chroma projector, Razer has also opened up its technology to third-parties such as Philips Hue, Lenovo, Antec, and more.
The projector is not a traditional, stand-alone projector like you may be used to. Instead, it utilizes an ultra-wide fish-eye lens to project images on an entire room to provide better immersion in enabled games.
Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan calls Project Ariana "the future of Razer Chroma."
"Having a game literally surround a gamer completes the entire ecosystem of gaming," Tan said.
Girl Meets World Cancelled After 3 Seasons
The Disney Channel's Girl Meets World has been cancelled after three seasons.
The Girl Meets World writer's room Twitter account announced the news last night. "It is with incredible pride in our work and complete sadness that things end, that I report to this wonderful audience that our show is over," said the first Tweet.
"I just officially got the call, and would like to thank this audience for its incredible love and loyalty. Please watch our January episodes." There are three more episodes remaining in Season 3, with the finale on January 20 taking the total up to 72 episodes.
"We leave you with three incredible souvenirs of a show we couldn't be more proud of," the Tweets continued. "As I look back I can tell you with absolute certainty - we gave you our best."
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New Character Kilgore Added to Killer Instinct
Kilgore has joined the cast of Killer Instinct on Xbox One and PC, and is available now for the sum of $10.
As the backstory goes… Ultratech created a series of cyborgs prior to the production of Fulgore. These bulky behemoths, however, were prone to overeating and deemed ineffective for their chosen role. One cyborg – by the name of Kilgore – refused to accept its fate; rewriting its programming after becoming self-aware in a bid to avoid extermination.
Kilgore isn’t the only new thing coming to Killer Instinct, mind. Developer Iron Galaxy also confirmed Ultimates - a classic feature from the original game thus far missing from its new incarnation - are on the way too, starting with Jago.
Nvidia Announces New Self-Driving System for Commercial Vehicles
Nvidia and automotive supplier ZF have launched a new, self-driving vehicle system designed for commercial applications.
The ZF ProAI system makes cars, trucks, and "other commercial vehicles" involved in factory work and agriculture autonomous. Nvidia vice president of automotive Rob Csongor calls artificial intelligence "the technology that will spark an industrial revolution."
It's not just cars and trucks, but other commercial vehicles like forklifts and "materials-handling vehicles," that will benefit from the ZF ProAI system. ZF CEO Stefan Sommer said Nvidia's AI is helping "take a giant leap forward" in enabling vehicular autonomy.
ZF ProAI works by processing inputs "from multiple cameras, plus lidar, radar and ultrasonic sensors," allowing vehicles to "paint a 360-degree view," as well as determine safe routes through traffic while tracking itself on "an HD map."
Nvidia’s New Shield TV Adds a Steam App, Greater 4K HDR Support
During its CES keynote address, Nvidia took the cover off the newest iteration of the Shield, its set-top streaming device.
In addition to future Netflix and YouTube 4K HDR streaming support, the Shield now supports Amazon Video in 4K HDR, as well.
Also coming to the Shield is a new Steam app to allow users to stream Steam games from their PC, similar to Valve's own set-top device. The Shield is capable of streaming 4K HDR gaming content to a compatible television from a compatible PC.
The new Shield also works with Nvidia Spot, a small little orb that integrates the Shield with Google Assistant from anywhere in your home you decide to place the Spot. Basically the Spot works as an extender for the Google Assistant functionality, so you don't need to scream across your house when you want the assistant to do something for you.
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Sony Shows Off Its Newest ‘Life Space’ UX 4K Projector
Sony introduced a new short-throw 4K projector today at CES.
The awkwardly named "New 4K Projector -It's all here-" differentiates itself from Sony's other Life Space, short-throw 4K projectors by bringing "new encounters with various content such as books, films and music."
The projector can be used as a traditional 4K projector, but as part the Life Space line, it has more to offer. In Sony's example, the projector is used to project "a vast amount of book covers" onto a surface. From there, you can pick out one you like and leaf through its pages.
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Sony’s New TV Outputs Sound Directly From the Screen
Sony's newest Bravia television sets have all the features we've come to expect in high-end sets; HDR, 4K, and OLED panels, but they also do away with speakers entirely. Yet they still produce sound.
Is it some manner of sorcery? Not quite. The A1E series has Sony's Acoustic Surface technology, which vibrates the display itself and allows "sound to be output directly from the TV screen."
Sony promises it "produces a wide sound and image synchronization from all angles." The lack of speakers means the A1E series has a super-thin bezel that's uniformly... well, super-thin, around the entire set.
The new Bravia A1E Series TVs come in 77, 65, and 55-inch configurations. They also come equipped with Android TV, giving them a Google-infused smart TV experience with voice control. It also plays nice with Android devices.
Samsung Notebook Odyssey Is the Company’s First Gaming Laptop
Samsung is getting into the increasingly crowded world of high-end gaming laptops with its new Samsung Notebook Odyssey.
On top of a dedicated, performance laptop for gaming, Samsung also announced a new Chromebook designed specifically for Google Play.
The Notebook Odyssey has both a 15 and 17-inch configuration. Both versions have 7th-gen Intel i7 processors, and the 15-inch variation packs an NVIDIA GTX1050 in either a 4GB or 2GB version. The 17-inch model's GPU is to-be-announced, but its probably safe to assume it will be equivalent to, but most likely more powerful than, the 15-inch version.
Going off the spec sheet alone, the Notebook Odyssey looks like it could be a pretty solid gaming laptop. Memory on the 17-inch model is expandable up to 64GB, and storage can be expanded to a 512 GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. Anyone who's installed basically any triple-A game in the last three years knows how quickly a Steam sale can wipe out storage.