I love how the waters are completely melted.
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Oh, we're, uh, now we're, now we're encoding frames.
There we go.
Yeah, welcome to the...
The hot show.
The pool show.
Yeah, everything's really wet.
The melted ice and condensation show.
The Wang Show!
Live streaming to you here from beautiful...
The melted ice and condensation show.
Yeah, well, condensation can, uh, melt.
If the Wang Show ever lands on the April Fools, we should just change what the show
is about and be super hardcore about whatever it is.
Yeah, it could be like the chicken show.
Like all the latest news about chickens.
Chickens.
Chickens, chicken farming, chicken breeding.
Is chicken breeding chicken farming?
Whoa.
Because you, like, you, like, sow chickens and then you harvest chickens.
What's, what's...
Effectively it is.
Well, it's animal husbandry.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
It's an animal husbandry and farming show.
We've got a lot of great topics for you guys today, including, uh...
NVIDIA's GTX 1000.
I didn't know if you were ready for that one.
You took that from me.
Sorry, bro.
Also some bad news about the GTX 1080 with respect to SLI.
If you're super hardcore into having, like, lots of graphics cards.
Yes.
Or not that bad news, but we'll talk about that later.
Yeah.
And he finds that virtual reality can help treat severe paranoia, which is sweet.
And the Hyperloop One shows us how fast we could get from here to there.
Kinda.
More at eleven.
Also known as now.
We'll see.
Ish.
Oh, I am so sweaty.
I'm sitting here.
Everything about me is damp.
I look like a different person.
Unless you look through the doorway for us.
Then it's okay.
All the pain.
Yeah.
Only under this.
Alright.
So.
NVIDIA's 1000 series.
Oh, I was just gonna say, it has been a frickin' week.
Yeah.
We went to the unveiling of the GTX 1080 and 1070.
Why did they call it the 1080?
Yeah.
Do they enjoy creating confusion?
And, like, the whole time I was like, okay, no one's confused yet, but I've only talked
to, like, reviewers and, like, tech heads.
And then I talked to Tarin, and he was like, wait, does that mean it's a 1080 card or a
4K card?
Can it play 4K games?
And I'm like, oh, damn it.
And people are gonna walk into a store.
Totally.
And they're gonna have a big box sales rep, and they're gonna say, I wanna buy a 1080.
And they're gonna be like, LG, Samsung, Asus?
And the customer's gonna be like, Samsung's a good brand, I'll have a 1080 Samsung.
And that's gonna be bad, because that's not gonna be what they meant to buy, and it's
gonna be a big problem.
Wow, I think that was one of the monkeys.
That's a monkey.
So for those of you doubting that we are actually in a jungle, that sound effect could not possibly
have been pre-recorded and added into the stream after the fact, and we've got a doubter
that we're even live right now.
Yeah, we've got, hold on, let me scroll back up for a second.
Jester61?
Come on, you are the real Jester.
We are live.
Oh my goodness.
No one, no one, we get this all the time, you guys aren't live.
All right, well we're gonna tell you live.
Like every show.
About the GTX 1080, so let me just, original poster here is, oh apparently no one, so I'm
gonna pull up the original article here from Anontech, get this on the screen.
Luke was there though, he doesn't need an article from Anontech, walk us through what
you experienced.
So one thing that I want to address like immediately, because I think this is really important,
is because, it sounds awesome, the performance sounds great, people aren't benchmarking it
yet, you'll maybe hear about that later, super ambiguous, no real details thing, but yeah,
no like user benchmarks have happened yet, but they did claim two times the performance
of a Titan X and three times the efficiency of a Titan X power efficiency.
That did have a little caveat there, that was VR specifically, and we'll get more into
it later, there's like a software thing that they're doing that's allowing them to get
more performance in VR.
Which is still interesting to me.
Super interesting.
As someone who definitely has a Vive in the mail, not in the mail yet, but soon to be
in the mail.
And talking to some of the Nvidia guys after the event, Jayce2Cents and I were like, yo,
you didn't talk about DX11 or 12 at all, because honestly in their press event I didn't see
enough people complaining about this.
They didn't mention those performance metrics once.
So we asked them what was going on there and they said it should be 25, 20, 15% faster
than two 980s or a 980 Ti or a Titan X.
Which makes sense, because I mean if you look at the specs, it's like yeah it's got a lot
more clock speed, yeah it's on a new process node, 16nm, but they are pulling the same
thing that they've now done for three generations, including this one.
Where they released their second from the top tier chip, which traditionally would have
been, like if you go all the way back to the 400 series, that traditionally would have
been a 460, okay?
Like the equivalent die size chip.
So they're releasing that as a high end, and then they're going to follow it up presumably
with, I can never keep track of their...
Yeah with a GP 100, so the GP 104.
Yes, so the 1080 and the 1070 are GP 104s, and the presumably Titan whatever, Titan...
Why?
Titan yellow!
Titan Mexico?
Titan Mexico edition.
I don't know.
Because it's hot!
Ohhhh!
Stop!
So whatever that is and the 1080 Ti and whatever else possibly will be the GP 100.
By the way, I finally figured it out!
Because I was like, they always have these letters in the codenames.
It's Geforce Kepler numbers, Geforce Maxwell numbers, that's why the P100 isn't GP 100,
because it's just Pascal 100.
It is not the gamer skew.
Oh my god, that makes so much sense!
That was what finally clued me into it!
So that's why...
Did you figure that out or did you read that somewhere?
No, I was just thinking about it.
I was like okay, so it's called GP 104, now I get to remember another stupid...
I don't know if...
So that's Gef!
Fermi!
Geforce Fermi!
Yeah, no, I gotcha.
It finally makes sense!
It all lines up.
I'm an idiot.
The chat's probably telling us we're dumb.
I know!
Here it comes.
It's always with the time...
Yeah!
Always with the time delay!
Alright, what else you got from the event there?
Okay so there was four major features.
So you guys know most of the specs.
It was 8GB GDDR5X.
Which faster?
I clocked it over 2GB!
And that was on the 1080, and then it was 8GB still, but GDDR5, which is probably completely
fine.
No?
Wait, no, it's not GDDR5X?
Oh, 1070.
1070 is just 8GB of GDDR5, but that's probably completely fine.
We'll get benchmarks of that at some point.
Okay.
I don't know when.
Sorry, I had some paperwork caught in my throat there.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, sly.
But one quote that they have is that the GTX 1080, and presumably 1070, is built to make
the most of today's multi-monitor setups, curved screens, and head-mounted displays.
And that's, like, a thing.
The reason why they brought that up was simultaneous multi-projection, which is something that
they've been working on, where they can, and they've had stuff like this in the past, but
this is much more.
So they're making it so that they can render more than one, like, viewing angle at once.
So basically, if you have a multi-monitor setup, yeah, this is super cool.
You're gonna like this a lot.
If you have a multi-monitor setup, and I explain this in the software video a little bit, but
I'm gonna go into it more here, you have a multi-monitor setup usually with your displays
curved on the side, because you'd have them angled in towards you.
You mean more like angled on the side?
Angled on the side, yeah, yeah.
Because curved displays are a different thing.
And curved displays also have this problem, though.
Yes, that's true.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
Just slightly different.
Like, I mean, maybe not most of the ones that are out there now, but, like, remember that
prototype that Alienware showed off, that super-curved one?
That would definitely suffer from distortion of the rendering at the edges.
And sometimes even just having a crazy widescreen, like playing in 21x9 at all, will have these
problems.
It's not as big of a deal.
I didn't really cover this much in the individual video, because it's kind of a use-case scenario
depending on what game you play and stuff, if they support that resolution.
A lot of times they don't, so it stretches it, and to stretch it you have these warping
problems where the scale is screwed up on a lot of the objects on the sides.
Yeah, so, like, the cockpit, like, the bars for the window of the cockpit are, like, this
thick on the side.
They're massive.
They take up almost the entire screen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you play Rocket League, and everything on the sides is warped out, and this happens
when you have multiple displays as well, and it's even worse, because you angle them in,
and then things like break as they go across the screens, because the angle that you have
them on doesn't look right and stuff, simultaneous multi-projection should theoretically fix
all of these things.
I don't know how, and I'm sure we'll figure it out eventually, but they can figure out
the angle of your screens, and they can solve that problem and line everything up for you.
So if you're looking at something, even across angled screens, it will be flat.
That is incredible.
And they fix the, there's no more skew, there's no more warping going on, they fix all that
kind of stuff.
The scale's fixed.
I should have put an asterisk on that.
That's incredible.
Wow, that's incredible.
Tell me more.
If it works, we need to test it.
If it works, if, does it require game dev support?
Do we even know this yet?
Can we talk about this yet?
I don't know if we know that yet.
Okay.
What else we got?
Let's talk about the one you're stoked on.
Ansel?
Yeah.
Ansel's really cool.
I don't know if we have the games that are supported for it right now.
This one does need dev support.
I don't see a game list here.
I did mention the entire game list in my video.
One of them is like the Division.
Wow, I'm not going to remember the other ones right now.
One of them is the Division.
I'll try and pull it up.
Just talk about the feature for now.
What Ansel is, is essentially an incredibly badass screenshot software.
Which when he told me about it, I was like, okay.
Yeah, I had to asterisk that with like, trust me, it's interesting in the video as well.
Because like, no, it's actually really cool.
It can screenshot things.
I don't remember the exact resolution, but it's up to 32 times your monitor's resolution.
And then there's another resolution number, which is like whatever one you hit first.
But it's like 65,000 by 32,000 or something ridiculous.
So they showed it off with this ginormous canvas, about 15 by 3 meters, created using
Ansel that has a 2 gigapixel capture from The Witcher 3.
Now to be clear, none of this is going to make your game that you're playing run at
that kind of a resolution.
No.
That is not how it works, but in much the same way that Dynamic Super Resolution, which
they launched with the 980, can take more samples.
Like it can kind of go, okay, what if we were rendering the game at four times the resolution
and then...
You're basically running a render of the scene.
Yes.
And then instead of just having it go from your view, it's rendering everything.
So the camera will actually...
What you do in order to perform an Ansel screenshot isn't just press print screen.
They wanted to say this a million times during the show.
They're like, no more print screen button, blah, although hopefully you can bind it or
something because that would be cool.
But it pauses the game.
You get a free cam.
So say I'm punching you and my head's down here.
You could change the camera so that instead of being out here and it's a fighting game,
the camera's now looking up at me, an angle that you would never be able to get traditionally.
It would then move...
Once you tell it to take the screenshot, it would then move the camera around and make
sure that it gets everything from every different angle.
And one situation that they showed with the Witcher is they took a screenshot really far
out of what I believe was a castle going off of memory.
And then they were like, okay, but because of the insane resolution, you can zoom all
the way in through this window and then look at a book and see the printing on the book.
Which is super cool.
Really cool.
And this allows you to do things like...
There's really not that many notes, but there's something called EXR, which for camera people
means that it has amazingly good color information.
It's basically like taking a raw photo.
So you could essentially change the lighting in the scenes.
You could make it basically be day, even if the photo was taken at night.
And you can do a lot of really cool things in terms of cropping.
You can even take 360 degree photos.
So if you want to...
One thing that I thought of would have been really cool, you have to enable it.
The game developer has to enable it.
So this wouldn't be possible.
So I've got that list.
Witcher 3 was used to show it off.
Other games that have announced Ansel support include The Division, The Witness, Lawbreakers,
Paragon, No Man's Sky, Unreal Tournament, and Abduction.
So there you go.
At the event, someone asked if it would work with Shadowplay.
You could go back into a Shadowplay recording and then run Ansel.
And they said that they would not comment on it yet.
That doesn't seem like it should work.
That doesn't seem possible.
That really doesn't seem like it should work, because I thought the way Shadowplay is working
is it's basically just an H.264 encoding of...
I was surprised that the guy seemed enthusiastic when he said that they can't comment on it
yet.
So I'm not really sure how that works.
I would have thought the answer would have been no, you idiot.
No, yes.
Like, because...
But who knows?
Maybe they're changing Shadowplay.
And maybe Nvidia hasn't been entirely transparent about how Shadowplay works.
So I don't know.
That seems pretty freaking cool to me.
It would be very cool if you could go, like, wow, that was cool, let me go back and make
sure I have a really cool render of that.
Because something I would have really liked is...
I'm going to talk about classic WoW again.
When Nostralius went down, there was all those people gathering and all that kind of stuff.
They released something called Nostralius Memories, I believe it's called, where you
can go back in and be there again.
It would be super cool if Ansel existed, so you could get crazy angles way above where
everyone was and have really interesting views.
It's not built into the game, so it will not work.
But that's the first thing I thought of, was if this was enabled way back when it definitely
didn't exist, it would have been super cool to have those kind of screenshots, something
that you could relive.
And you could take a 360 degree photo with Ansel.
This is going to make people so hungry for, like, 16K monitors and, like, 8 to 10 times
more powerful GPUs.
Because honestly, going back and playing games that you haven't played since you were running,
you know, even going back and playing something like Far Cry 1, which you might have run the
first time on, like, a 6600 GT or something like that, it is amazing how much more is
left in those games when you run them on more powerful hardware and you really crank up
all the details, especially the engines that scale well.
This is not increasing the resolution of the game.
No, not what you're actually running.
Yes, it's just taking a very high resolution screenshot.
So it's what it would look like if you could do that.
Yeah.
So, like, one really cool thing, too, is you can take these photos and then there's an
app for your phone now, NVIDIA VR Viewer, I believe it's called, and you can send the
Ansel screenshot to that app and then view it in, like, a Google Cardboard or something.
They gave everyone at the event Google Cardboards.
Very cool.
So that we would be able to do that.
Obviously, we haven't been able to yet because we don't have it, but that will be very cool
once you're able to.
So there's some more VR features, path-traced audio, which is, you know, for regular two-dimensional
gaming, also applicable, but for VR is particularly important, so.
And like, needs to be pinpoint accurate, so that's very cool that they're working on that.
One thing that I mean, I don't have a lot to say about this, there's path-traced audio.
It should massively increase the precision of you being able to figure out where things
are based on sound, which is super cool.
Like, you should be able to tell if something's in another room.
Yeah, or if it's behind something, or if it goes from being behind something to being
not behind something.
Yes, exactly.
Something that, like, all of the 3D audio solutions that exist today, quite frankly,
just are not good enough at, from my experience.
And apparently, I've heard, this is completely hearsay, but I've heard that one of the main
guys that they have working on this used to work with, like, the US military on, like,
sound stuff in terms of, like, taking the reverberation of sounds in order to find snipers
and tanks and stuff within cities from, like, super far away.
So like...
Well, I'm glad he's working on something important now.
Yeah, well, I'm assuming he figured that stuff out.
But like, so he's probably pretty good, I don't know.
So that should be cool.
And one thing that I'm super excited for is, I know it sounds really lame visually, but
it would actually be a lot of fun to do, is if they release, like, if Disney releases
like a small tech demo, where you get to do the training droid fight.
So if it, like, if you go to put your helmet on and then it becomes black, and then you
just hear where the training droid is, and it takes shots, and you have to try to block
them.
That would be crazy.
That would be so much fun!
It sounds so stupid visually, because you literally put a headset on in order to see
blackness.
Yeah.
But like, it would be really fun.
That would be really fun.
Yeah.
I don't know.
But it would be really, really fun, this was originally posted by ALN118, the original
article here is from overclock3d.net, let's go ahead and pull this baby up.
So a member of the EVGA tech support team has confirmed that the 1080 will be limited,
and assuming the rest of the lineup, will be limited to two-way SLI.
And they said that we can confirm that 1080 cards only support up to two-way SLI and anything
above this will not work, no matter the SLI bridge.
Just to explain that last point, there's a new SLI bridge.
Can you use an old one?
Theoretically, no.
I've heard.
I don't know.
No one really knows.
I even contacted them, seeing if we could get another card to test SLI, because it's
supposed to be new and improved and stuff, and they're like, no, no one's getting that
yet.
They will be eventually, but they're like, well, we want to keep fair ground, so you
guys can't be the only one with SLI test, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, yeah.
And I was told in that that I would need the new SLI bridge, so yeah, I think you have
to use the new SLI bridge.
Okay.
It hasn't been, like, outright confirmed.
Interesting.
The SLI bridge has been with us for, like, ten years, I think.
Yes, and...
It goes all the way back to a 6000 series, holy crap.
And something that I did notice was, if you look, you might be able to pull this up right
now, maybe not.
If you look at my coverage of the, when we're having the talk with all of us in the room,
I have some b-roll of a system that was built by BS Mods, they're awesome, check them out.
And it has two cards in it, in SLI.
Not three, not four, only two.
And it has the new SLI bridge on it, and it's big.
And that matters, because I was checking out my sample card, because when I first read
this, I was like, what?
Mine had two fingers on it.
And it does.
I double checked.
It had two SLI fingers on it.
But the SLI bridge was big.
So I think what they're really doing is just teaming the SLI lanes.
Yeah, because they even said it's double the pr- really?
So they're just teaming the SLI lanes.
Like, I'm pretty sure, it's not confirmed, but like, that, that, the bridge is big, meaning
it's probably taking up both of them, and there are two fingers on my card.
I don't have it here, but like, I guarantee you.
Do you think they're gonna let us just put on two old bridges?
Or do you think they did something stupid, like, cross the paths internally on the bridge
so people can't do that easily?
I'm assuming there is some type of internal logic that teams them together.
Okay.
Which, but then does that mean you have to buy it separately?
Probably.
I mean-
I don't know if motherboard manufacturers are going to include that, especially at different
spacings, right?
I mean, that's the thing.
I don't stress as much as anyone, but when you have such a staple as the SLI bridge,
like who- like, I have, like, multiple bins of SLI bridges.
So many.
And you have your favorite ones in different colors.
Yeah, like I got my old DFI LAN party one with the black PCB, like, huh.
And one thing that was interesting was, I expected, before I went to the event, that
in our, like, goodie bag, which had the April Fool's energy drink and, like, a Clif bar
and stuff, which is actually kind of funny, they were going to be giving us an SLI bridge.
Right.
The reason why I thought that was because on the, like, press signup page, there was
a question asking us what our favorite motherboard spacing for two-way SLI was.
And then no.
And then no.
Oh.
So I'm wondering if they were polling everyone that went to the event to figure out which
spacings they should have more available.
I hope this isn't something that you have to buy from nvidia.com or something.
Yeah, that would suck.
I'm not- okay, personally, I'm not super worried that we're now limited to two.
Yeah.
Because three and four is pretty dumb anyways.
We've talked about it time and time again.
Three and four is not good.
Even if the FPS number is higher, like, people who send me their system config and they're
like, yeah, I'm getting three because I'm a super BA dude.
You end up getting a lot of-
Actually, you just get stuttering and compatibility issues and it's just bad.
Go back and watch The Compensator.
That had four cards.
Four cards.
Yeah.
Four 980s.
Four Titan Exes, I think.
I think so, yeah.
Yeah.
Four Titan Exes.
And, like, it was unplayable in anything.
Yeah.
Because so much stuttering and, like, just, it was gross to play anything on that machine.
And I'm hoping that if they're limited to two now, they will just focus on two.
Really explain the limitation to two as well.
If it's just two old bridges.
Yeah.
Because you couldn't, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
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Look at this go, where's Colton, Colton was hilarious, he was freaking awesome.
I'm sorry the bit rate's really low, the connection here at the hotel in Mexico is not exactly
that great and we are streaming so we're actually, it's actually kind of a miracle that that
loaded at all, so you can check it out, the link's going to be in the video description
over on YouTube, but it's Vessel.com, it's not exactly complicated.
Alright so let's move on to some of our additional topics here, but I guess for the YouTube viewers
it'll be down below.
Here we go, this is freaking cool, so the original here is from Gizmeg, I'm just going
to fire this up here and start up my battery bank again, I think I'm triggering either
overheating or over-current protection, trying to keep my laptop juiced up here.
So this is a very early test, it's called a propulsion open air test, or POAT, it does
use electromagnets to propel a sled at 115 miles per gallon apparently, considering Colton
rode it, but it's actually 115 miles per hour or 185 kilometers per hour, which is pretty
damn impressive, along a test track running 1500 feet long.
So this isn't actually to test like how fast it can go, this is more of like a stepping
stone theory kind of deal, so they're going to add on to it and add on to it and add on
to it and add on to it and grow and prove the theory as they grow, this is just kind
of an early stage thing, so I know people would be like, I thought they were claiming
it would go much faster than that, like 700 miles per hour, and you're right, they were.
What voice is that?
I don't know.
That was awful.
I don't know.
And hopefully they will grow up to that point, but this is, yeah, this is an early on thing.
It's open air, it's supposed to be in a vacuum tube, like one of the main points of this
whole thing is that it's in a vacuum tube, they don't have that part going quite yet,
so yeah, it's fine, they're just testing like the sand shark sled and all that kind of stuff.
Okay, battery's critical.
Oh my.
Oh my goodness, the, oh, this is going to be awkward, okay, do you want to give them
some more specs on that?
Okay, yeah, so it's about 10 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada, claiming a bunch of stuff
that we've already heard about.
Apparently the experiment, when the capsule is created, we'll be using a compressor to
create a stronger vacuum ahead of the vehicle to cut down the air resistance, all this kind
of stuff we already knew.
Even the test system will include a passenger and cargo compartment and batteries to power
the system and contain a levitation device to lift the capsule off the guard rails, which
will probably be air bursts or something along those lines, air bursts or magnets, but I
believe last time I heard it was air bursts, so that should be pretty cool.
We have a picture here, which I will try to bring up, although I'm using Linus' laptop,
I'm not sure how things are set up, so I'm going to go news item.
Already did that.
Okay, so, no worries, there you go, so there's the sled, which is obviously not going to
carry huge amounts of cargo or people or literally anything, kind of looks like a little cute
spider thing, but yeah, like I said, they're going to grow on that and move from there.
So this is cool, but it might not have been what you expected, but it is still very cool.
Their video for it is like massively overproduced, which is kind of fun, but you know, whatever.
All right, Amazon Direct Video Service.
So this was originally posted by Sam et al on the forum, the original article here is
from The Verge, let me just go ahead and bring up that news item here.
Amazon challenges YouTube by offering uploaders a cut of the ads.
Which I don't think is right at all.
That is a very sensationalist and honestly a little bit misleading headline because speaking
as a YouTuber, I'm just going to throw this out there, I'm pretty sure that checks show
up monthly from YouTube, where they give us a cut of, and I think it's to do with the
ads on the videos.
Maybe the ads.
I mean, if it's not to do with the ads on the videos, I'm sorry guys, I'm just going
to disable them from now on because apparently it's just coming from magic.
So let's go through Colton's notes on this thing, see if we can demystify this stuff.
We'll let video creators share content and receive a cut of the revenue, offering creators
a variety of ways to earn money, including royalties through streaming to Prime members.
That's cool, because right now, YouTube does not have a subscription service that gives
YouTubers a cut of the royalties for the monthly, oh wait, hold on a second, huh, YouTube, Roosh,
is it Roosh, RedTube, is that it, oh, oh my, no, no, don't go there, unless you want to,
but and you're over age, um, sorry, but with that said, with that said, I mean, if we had
Amazon Prime subscribers in our audience, and we were to do some kind of YouTube Red
series or something, which we don't have, which we don't have in the works at all, by
the way, seriously, we'd have nothing going on with YouTube Red.
They wouldn't be able to access it unless they had YouTube Red as well.
That's right, so if we were to say, okay, yeah, it'll be on Prime and it'll be on YouTube
Red, all of a sudden we're giving people choices, and if they already have Prime anyway, because
they shop at Amazon all the time, then that's cool.
So the revenue sharing will be through rentals, purchases, subscriptions, and ad impressions,
so it sounds like it could be free to use, you probably won't need a Prime membership,
and Amazon definitely has the video serving horses to make something like this happen,
so that's pretty cool.
I don't know at all, but just reading this and looking at what Amazon's doing, I'm getting
the vibe that they're not targeting people like us.
I think they're targeting more of a Vimeo crowd than a YouTube crowd, because looking
at the pictures that they're using as their samples and stuff, it's not like, super fun
we did weird thing, I don't know what stuff is super popular on YouTube, kids stuff.
React.
React things, it doesn't seem like that at all.
It doesn't seem like any of that at all, it seems like little user-created shows, so if
RocketJump made longer episodes.
So more like podcasts, or like, episodic content, or like shows, or higher production value.
Is that battery dying as well?
That could be bad, we might be an audio-only cast for a little bit here, while I summon
Brandon to bring us another battery.
Anyways, I'm going to keep talking.
It seems like, yeah, higher production quality, not really like, reviews or like, short kind
of contained videos.
It seems like they're still leaving that market up to YouTube, so, hello.
It's okay, it's all good.
So yeah, I think they're still leaving that kind of stuff up to YouTube, I think it's
going to be, yeah, more high production quality, like, short movies, is basically what I kind
of think they're going for.
Anyways, moving on, Oxford study finds that virtual reality can help treat severe paranoia.
If you just like, share, okay, yeah, that kind of works.
Hold on, hold on, I got this.
Okay, okay, okay, we're back.
Nice.
We're back, we're back in action.
No, never mind, never mind, Brandon says he can't.
I'm just telling him, we're switching to the webcam, we're improvising, we're improvising
in Mexico.
Alright, so, so, an Oxford study finds, I'm going to put the mic on top of the computer.
That's in the water.
It's WAN show time again, kids.
It's also like, right in front of your face.
Alright, we're going to be the first time I put it there.
Okay, so, what else we got for topics here?
Anyways, sorry, Oxford study finds virtual reality can help treat, so, wow, I don't know
where to look now.
Posted by InsanelySecretD on the forum, by the way.
InsanelySecretD, that's a fantastic name.
The secret D.
Anyways, VR can help treat severe paranoia by allowing people to face situations that
they fear.
Now, severe paranoia is like, oh, you got to fix that one.
I'm working on it.
Is like one to two percent of the population.
So that's actually pretty significant if you go into total number of people.
And it is like a mental health issue.
Sphere paranoia is like not cool.
Anyways, how they do it is they have people face their fears in VR.
So one, they already did a trial.
One group was encouraged to use normal defensive behaviors.
And another group was told to hold a long stare or stand toe to toe with the avatars
that encompass their fears, I guess.
And super cool, over 50 percent of the patients no longer had severe paranoia at the end of
their testing day.
One day?
Day.
One day.
It says singular day.
I don't know if, like, I haven't read super deeply into the article.
I don't know if it was a whole extensive thing.
That's incredible.
But it does singularly say day.
If it works at all, if it does anything at all, even if you need like regular therapy,
let's say for example, like VR therapy.
Yeah.
I would, I am so excited about stuff like that.
I mean, using technology for gaming is great.
I am super down for using it for gaming.
Why am I looking at that camera still?
I'm super down for using it for gaming.
But using it for, using it for making people's actual RL lives better.
That is the real deal.
Speaking of real deal, this was originally posted by OnoTech.
Okay, one thing I want to drop in, over 50% of the patients no longer had severe paranoia
at the end of the day that were, I believe, lowering their defenses and standing toe to
toe.
And the ones that used their defenses, 20% of that group no longer had severe paranoia
at the end of the day.
Still singular day.
So you still have to conquer your fear.
Yeah.
You still have to like...
But you can go in...
Look it in the eye.
Knowing...
That it's not real.
That it's not real.
And you're in VR and you know that personally.
And it's, that must make it so much easier considering 50% of them were able to overcome
their severe paranoia in a day.
It must have been easier for them to do so.
So let's launch into some rapid fire topics here.
Civilization 6 has been announced and it looks freaking awesome!
Oh, I was going to do the Micron one, but sure, that's fine.
I had to do that.
Where is that even?
Civilization 6?
It's probably down a little bit.
Civilization...
There's like no details on it at all.
They're, they're making it so that when you build your city, it expanses a little bit.
Wow, I'm still looking at the wrong camera.
It expanses so you don't just have like a singular location and you have districts.
So you have like your industrial district and like your, your, your, your food growth
district and your culture district and all that kind of stuff.
Then people can attack districts individually when they come to fight you.
And it makes it so that like, I believe if I remember correctly, there's more inter trade
between cities.
So if you have one city that's in the mountains, it can be like totally industry focused.
Then you have one that's like along a nice river.
It could be like totally growth and food focused and they can interchange with each other.
The problem that might introduce, say someone comes and wipes out your growth city, then
your industry city is stuck with no food, right?
So they're, they're trying to make it so that each game is more...
So rush the great wall and uh, what's that Colossus I think is, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Basically.
Rush great wall and colossus.
Still a good strategy, probably four or five iterations of the game later.
Um, but yeah, they're trying to make it so that each game is more unique.
So basically where your city is placed will more greatly influence how that city will
naturally grow.
That is a struggle for Civ.
Yeah, it is.
So they're, they're working on that a lot.
They're also working on, I think they call it advanced multiplayer.
We're getting so much crap for our crappy camera quality.
You know what?
We are streaming to you from Mexico.
So sorry.
I'm surprised it's even working.
Yeah.
It's a miracle.
It's working at all.
Anyways, I think it's called advanced multiplayer.
We have no notes on this.
It's supposed to make scenarios that are easier to be completed within a single play session
with friends, which is also a huge thing that they need to come over because the long play,
like have everyone come over for a whole day and do it is still cool.
Risk is fun, but being able to have a smaller contained experience is also very cool.
There's people who have time to play Civ and then there's people with jobs and families
quite frankly.
I haven't been able to do a full place of game with friends in a very long time.
Yeah.
And that's like one of my favorite things to do.
So yeah, Nvidia launches GTX 1080 with Micron GDDR5X and Micron has officially ramped up
full scale production of GDDR5X, which shouldn't come as any surprise given that there are
cards launching that have it.
This is interesting.
Oh, that was posted by Onotech.
Next one here is posted by Captain Gaz and this is fascinating, PayPal to pull payment
protection for crowdfunding sites on June 25th.
They're basically saying, look, if you haven't seen all the news articles, if you haven't
been burned already, if you haven't seen the episode of South Park, if you haven't seen
Luke's Neptune Pine video, we're sorry, but we don't feel bad for you anymore.
When you give them your money, understand that you are giving them your money.
Can we talk about how amazing this title image is for a moment?
What?
It's just like someone took like a not great picture of like the side of someone's phone
that had a PayPal logo on it.
Yeah.
And they were just like, that's good enough.
Honestly, it kind of is.
It is, but like what?
How did you even think of that?
Like it's just on a table.
I want, you know what?
You know what?
You know what I bet it is?
Because no one would be taking, like no one would be doing like phone device photography
with another phone camera and you're like, look how crap, look how crap this looks.
You know what I bet it is?
I bet it is actually like a crop of a video that they've made or something, a photo they
took for a phone for a review that happened to have a PayPal logo and why they would even
like why that would be, why they wouldn't just put a PayPal logo at the top of the page.
I don't know.
PayPal has like logos for people to use.
But here you go.
Kickstarter notes about 9% of their projects never deliver.
And that is not accounting for the ones that deliver garbage.
Sorry dad, you'll get your hammer eventually.
Yeah.
And there, and if the campaign just goes bust or doesn't deliver, you can no longer dispute
the charge.
So in a statement made to end gadget from PayPal, they said in Australia, Brazil, Canada,
Japan, United States, and certain other countries, we have excluded payments made to crowdfunding
campaigns from our buyer protection program.
I think this is fine.
I don't think PayPal can be expected to do that, to be completely honest.
What do you think?
Uh, no, I think it's completely reasonable, especially given that you're not exactly getting,
you know, blindsided by this anymore.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, all right, I've got actually, okay, there's a couple more big ones.
The city of Zug, Zug, oh Lordy, it's Swiss.
So who knows?
This was posted by Datalub on the forum.
City of Zug is the first government to accept Bitcoin.
This legitimizes Bitcoin in a, well, I don't know, Swiss, Swiss, it's Swiss, Swiss, Swiss,
Swiss bank.
What you doing?
Oh, you want me to translate the page?
There you go.
Yes.
You want me to translate that?
City will worldwide to Bitcoin pioneer.
Oh boy.
You made nothing better.
You officially did not help at all.
Let the record show that you were not helpful.
We definitely knew it said that, that was, that was great.
I'm going to change scenes here eventually.
All right, let's get my notes up here.
So the Swiss town is billing it, billing itself as a hub for the digital currency industry,
will accept Bitcoin for some payments starting this summer.
So the town council in Zug approved, every time I say it wrong, I'm going to be buried
alive here, approved plans to accept payments of up to 200 Swiss francs for the municipal
registration fees starting July 1st.
Part of an experiment and many in Zug tout the town's reputation as part of Crypto Valley.
Approximately 15 companies linked to the digital currency business in Crypto Valley.
Very, very cool.
This article doesn't show an umlaut over it, so like I would expect that and then it to
be Zug.
But because of that now I'm like, ah, I don't know.
I don't know what to tell you.
All right.
This was posted by Zmule and this is freaking awesome.
Microsoft has announced the original article here is from Ars Technica.
Microsoft has announced removal, removal of some of the particularly stupid restrictions
that they've placed on a universal windows apps, particularly games that people were
complaining about.
Things like that you couldn't run native full screen.
You had to run borderless window mode.
Things like this, and this is the one that we're specifically talking about here that
we've got from our article here, requiring v-sync why I don't want that v-sync leg.
Please do not make me have it.
It's super annoying because it's bad and terrible.
So gamers will have better control over performance and picture quality trade-offs.
The latest update is that you'll now be able to decide whether or not to have v-sync enabled
and you will be able to use g-sync and free sync as well.
Which is super good because that would be so frustrating owning like, I don't own one
yet.
I hope to eventually get one, but owning a g-sync screen or a free sync screen and just
not being able to use it.
Because it's better.
Yeah.
It really, really, truly is objectively better.
Speaking of objectively better, the WAN show normally, so we're sorry about this that we
got going on here, but I think that's pretty much it for the show.
We will see you guys again next week.
Same bat time, same bat channel, totally different bat location.
No after party today.
Yeah, no after party.
No.
Well, there will be an after party, but you guys aren't invited.
Mexico!
Mexico!