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it's hard to believe but it's already
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been six months since nvidia launched
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their game streaming platform geforce
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now and we covered it quite a bit
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whenever it first launched back in
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february because honestly we were still
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buzzing about stadia and game streaming
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and hopefully a way that we would see a
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lot of games come to chromebooks and
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well we know what's happened with stadia
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in the past seven eight months and it's
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not delivered all the titles that a lot
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of people want and there's not a ton of
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people playing there and while geforce
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now launched and was really cool on
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android and windows and mac os it wasn't
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really great on chromebooks because
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there was no way to get us into the
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games that we wanted to play
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but as of today geforce now is available
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in the chrome browser on chromebook
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specifically so we want to go in go
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hands-on and show you how it all works
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alright so all you have to do in order
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to play this is hey you need a geforce
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now account so if you don't have that
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play.geforcenow.com that's actually the
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web portal where you're going to go to
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play your games but there's also a
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special offer up here and you can get a
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discounted rate on the founders package
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that they have you don't have to pay for
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that but if you don't i think you're
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really limited on the time that you can
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place it's like an hour at a time or
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i don't know all the specifics of all
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that kind of stuff and i think they've
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changed it possibly in the last few
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months i stayed on the founders it's
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five bucks a month uh since it launched
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and so i just came here logged in up
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here in the corner once you're logged in
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just like on the application in android
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or if you've used the application on
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windows all your stuff's right here and
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the interface is really nice you click
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into a game it expands and tells you a
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little bit about the game and obviously
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if it's ready you can go and hit play
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you can go up here and search for games
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for instance portal uh yeah i know got
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so for instance portal if i can type
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see portal portal 2. i don't have either
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one of those games in my library but
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they're available via steam it shows you
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right there if you have a steam account
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it'll prompt you to log in whenever you
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go to add that to your library it's no
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different than the geforce now that has
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been there none of this has changed from
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what's been occurring for the last six
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months so if you're not familiar with
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that we have other videos about that
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there's plenty on the internet about how
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geforce now works and what's available
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and what's not available and all that
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kind of stuff that's not what we're here
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to talk about what we want to show you
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is how well the web player works right
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from the web so zero downloads no setup
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nothing needed here you just log in with
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your chromebook and i'm going to click
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and it's going to begin the launcher
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just like again like it would have done
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in the android app or anything else and
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when this is done and up and running we
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okay so after it gets through all the
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loading i mean after all fortnight and a
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lot of these games because these are all
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running basically on a pc in the cloud
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they're going to take a few minutes to
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load in but once you're loaded in you
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can already see from the get go if you
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can pick up on that mouse tracking the
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almost perfect i mean everything just
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moves exactly in sync with it makes you
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feel like you're just running this
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locally which clearly you're not but it
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doesn't feel any different than if you
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were running it locally so just going to
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solo match here and again
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i'm not a professional fortnite player
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if i'm anything i'm a pub g player but
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i'm a pub g mobile player so i'm a
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little rusty with the whole uh keyboard
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trackpad thing uh keyboard mouse
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controls uh so don't judge me for that
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however i would like to now that this is
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available and i can play fortnite this
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way i play fortnite on my ipad from time
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you know i'd like to get better at it
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with a mouse and keyboard now that i
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a setup that i can kind of rely on to to
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have it all the time i can flip this
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open and jump into a match with my kids
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but you can already see lighting effects
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you can see if you can see my hand down
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it's super responsive i mean it
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it doesn't hesitate whatsoever again
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it really gives off the feeling that
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you're running this thing locally and
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it's really impressive to be honest with
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you how smooth this all works in a
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browser because i'll be honest there's a
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lot of times i want to play stuff in
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stadia and i want to play it in the
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browser with the mouse and keyboard and
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the gameplay just lags and there are
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issues and there's artifacting on the
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screen and for whatever reason i don't i
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don't really know what's going on
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but nvidia seems to have figured this
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really work things out in their favor to
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make this a great experience i mean as
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you can see it's just it's smooth frame
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rates are nice and high there's no
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issues with input lag
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and again the overall experience just
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feels incredibly native for what's
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actually going on here i will say we
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have fast internet here so
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your mileage may vary when it comes to
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actually trying to run something like
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this on a lower connection speed um so
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keep that in mind if you're getting into
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streaming gaming i'm assuming that you
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kind of know that to begin with we're
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going to run some more tests as time
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goes by to figure out like what can we
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get away with on this can we can we use
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an lte connection is it is it going to
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work over over those types of
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connections and stuff but ultimately
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it's about over a good connection how
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native does this whole thing feel and i
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can tell you right now
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very very native i mean this this is
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just great and uh i do wish pubg would
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nvidia's game servers and maybe one day
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they'll come back but for right now uh
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it's gonna be fortnite for me uh and i'm
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not gonna embarrass myself by going
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hunting out a bunch of people i just we
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just wanted to show you how smooth and
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how responsive like look at the frame
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rates if you can pick those up on video
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i'm easily getting 60 frames here again
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i think we're filming in 30 frames but
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it should look nice and smooth you saw
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just a tad bit of hiccup right there
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that's about as bad as i've seen so far
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and it usually lasts for maybe a second
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a second and a half something like that
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at most but ultimately everything stays
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smooth it's very playable i've gotten
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into some pretty hairy gun fights
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already so even when there's multiple
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people on screen people shooting and
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stuff blowing up and going crazy no real
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hiccups no real issues with performance
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whatsoever what i also want to show you
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is if you like gaming with a controller
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instead something like this or a
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playstation controller we would assume
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even the stadia controller would work if
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you've got a controller paired up
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we're going to turn this xbox on
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and i believe i'm paired up already
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all of these work menus work exactly
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left and right triggers all that stuff
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works just like you'd expect and if
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you're like man you know what i'm tired
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with that i'd like like to go back here
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this is still working as well so
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kudos to nvidia i think they probably
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pulled a lot of this stuff off of the
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work that has gone into making stadia
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and for what it's worth it feels
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it feels a little bit like they
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look at me i got an elimination
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it feels a little bit like they might
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taken that work and improved on it
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possibly because this is
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just super impressive uh to be running
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on a 400 chromebook that i have sitting
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in front of me and ultimately when i
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tried this out to begin with this
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morning when it first launched i was
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doing it on a sub 300 chromebook with a
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very entry-level small core intel
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processor in it so what nvidia is doing
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here is very very impressive it's
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awesome that i can jump to a bluetooth
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controller if i want to i can use mouse
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and keyboard if i want to i could plug
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in a keyboard and mouse if i wanted to
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extend the screen i was doing it earlier
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on a larger display it's very very
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flexible it's very very smooth and very
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very responsive and something i would
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say for five bucks a month if you
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already own some games or you want to
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play games like fortnite that are free
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to play this is an awesome solution for
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a lot of people that have chromebooks
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and want to play some games but that's
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really all we wanted to show you we're
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going to spend a lot more time with this
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get some better reviews and see what we
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can get away with basically on what
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low-end chromebooks and how low the
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latency can be on bad connections and
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all that kind of stuff and some other
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peripherals that would work with all
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this stuff see if voice chat works those
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kind of things but right now we just
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wanted to show you how cool this already
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is in its infancy it's still technically
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in beta and just launched today and it
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is super super impressive well done
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nvidia i think this is going to be
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something a lot of you out there are
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going to like to take advantage of and
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enjoy a whole lot but guys that's it for
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