Games are then streamed through your router to a smartphone or tablet, or alternatively, to a receiver attached to a big screen TV. In the meantime, check out our gallery for some in-person pics.Valve has released beta Steam Link functionality for Android devices today and in essence, this free downloadable app allows you to remotely connect mobile hardware to any Steam computer on your local network. The new model, besides being smaller and therefore sexier, also comes bundled with a controller and remote. There are two versions, one with 16GB of storage for $200 and a 500GB model for $300. The new Shield is available to pre-order now (opens in new tab). For all intents and purposes, Nvidia is doing what Valve attempted to do with its Steam Machine initiative. Users can also access more than 1,000 games from the Nvidia Shield game store. Shield TV can cast games from PCs and works with GeForce Now, Nvidia's on-demand game streaming service that resides in the cloud. No other streamer comes close to those specs. Pricing and availability on Spot have not been announced.Īs for Shield TV, the updated model is (still) powered by a Tegra X1 ARM chip with four Cortex-A57 cores and four Cortex-A53 cores, and 3GB of RAM. It connects to the main Shield TV hub wirelessly. It can also triangulate your position if there are multiple Spots in the house, using beamforming on the mic to improve sensitivity. Nvidia has a new product, called Spot, that provides remote microphone capabilities with a range of 20 feet.

Interacting in other rooms will require additional hardware, naturally.

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