VR Wars: Ampere vs. Big Navi – Is the RTX 3060 Ti the New Bang-for-Buck VR Champ?

Ampere vs. Navi 2 – Introducing the RTX 3060 Ti at $399 The RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition (FE) has arrived at $399 and we want to see how this upper midrange video card performs in VR compared with the …

Pro AV Empathy

AI, ProAV Products Critical as the World Progresses At the end of last year, the more cautious industry analysts were recommending that Pro AV folks (hardware/software/integration/service) diversify into “more economically insensitive market segments” to ride out the economic downturn they …

The Red Devil RX 6800 XT takes on the Reference RX 6800 XT & the RTX 3080 in 37 Games

The PowerColor Red Devil RX 6800 XT takes on the Reference RX 6800 XT & the RTX 3080 in 37 Games The Red Devil RX 6800 XT arrived at BTR for evaluation on a short-term loan from PowerColor on Wednesday, …

Mood Changes

It’s Time to Streamline Streaming Services, Protect Content or … ? Last Sunday evening, we played Twister with our daughter after she complained, “I’m bored and there’s nothing on TV.” Are you kidding me? We have Netflix, Disney +, Amazon …

Getting Real

Viewer Options Actually Benefit the Entire Entertainment Ecosystem Attention streaming video folks. Yes, we really, really like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Apple TV+, Disney + stuff. We like this and that on BritBox and HBO, or whatever you’re calling it …

VR Wars: The RX 6800 XT vs. the RTX 3080 – 15 VR Games Performance benchmarked

VR Wars: The RX 6800 XT vs. the RTX 3080 – 15 Games Performance benchmarked using the Vive Pro This review presents a fifteen-game VR performance showdown between the RX 6800 XT and the RTX 3080 using the Vive Pro …

GeForce 457.30 Driver Performance Analysis – Using Ampere and Turing

Game Ready GeForce 457.30 Driver Performance Analysis featuring a Gigabyte AORUS RTX 3080 MASTER & an EVGA RTX 2080 Ti BLACK using 11 13 Games [Updated 12/22/2020 19:25 PM PT] This driver performance analysis showcases the performance of a Gigabyte …

ASUS ROG Wireless Chakram & Core Mouse review – a Tale of Two Mice

ASUS ROG Wireless Chakram & Wired Core Mouse review – A tale of two Premium Mice We received a ROG Wireless Chakram mouse from ASUS in September, and by sheer coincidence we received a ROG Core Chakram wired mouse from …

The Way

Everyone in the M&E Industry is Evaluating Their Options Several weeks ago, on one of our forums, one of the participants was lamenting how streaming media was messing up the entire industry by showing all of the best content D2C, …

The Sim Side: NVIDIA SPS VR Performance in iRacing – Part II

The Conclusion of our Investigation into NVIDIA’s Single Pass Stereo Technology Our first deep-dive into simulation virtual reality (VR) performance attempted to address the question: “What is Single Pass Stereo (SPS), and does it improve performance in iRacing?” Under the …

Windows 10 Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling Performance Analysis

Windows 10 Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling Performance Analysis (HAGS On vs. HAGS Off) – 13 games benchmarked using a Gigabyte AORUS RTX 3080 MASTER The Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 20H1) added an optional OS feature called Hardware Accelerated …

View to Go

Short Mobile Viewing is Nice but People Like Long Stories I don’t know about you, but we’re getting awfully tired of looking up people’s noses during Zoom meetings. It probably doesn’t bother you; but one of our college degrees was …