With CES 2017 coming to a close, we have a lot of juicy gaming tech to talk about. Some of it borders on the insane, while some others, have their feet planted firmly on the ground. So in the spirit of what CES is all about, let’s start with the absolutely bonkers.
Every year Razer arrives at CES with some crazy futuristic tech that we won’t be seeing for at least a good three to four years, and this time too they didn’t disappoint. Enter Project Valarie. This is Razer’s teaser into what may turn into a triple monitor gaming laptop. Yes, that’s right, a laptop that houses three independent screens and will pop out on either side and push laptop gaming into a whole new dimension. Sadly, no release date or price was revealed.
Next up on Razer’s list is their gaming projector, Project Ariana. Razer is planning to take gaming immersion way beyond their RGB lighting and bring you as close to living inside the gaming world. They are aiming to utilise your full peripheral vision and use the surfaces around the monitor to project the game world as you would perceive it if you were in it yourself.
While still on the topic of absurd, let’s not forget to mention Acer and their Predator 21X laptop.
It comes with a 4K 21 inch curved display and weighs over 10 kg. Packing an i7 7820HK CPU, SLI GTX 1080s, and 2x1TB SSDs in raid zero configuration. You can choose to extend the storage by throwing two more SSDs into the mix. The laptop has five system fans to manage all that heat and a plethora of pipes inside. This is more like a portable desktop, and one should not expect more than an hour of performance on battery.
Last up is NVIDIA’s GeForce Now initiative. What NVIDIA is seeking to do with this is to turn every PC into a beast GTX powered gaming rig.
For a fee of $25 you will get access to NVIDIA’s servers and will be able to stream run any game off it on both windows and mac devices for a total of 20 hours.
The problem I forsee is bandwidth issues, as very few people around the world, let alone India, will be able to properly utilise this feature. But with localised servers and proper internet, this might open the doors for a lot of gamers who don’t want to buy a gaming laptop just for travelling.
