Testing & Benchmarking the HP Reverb G2 vs. the HP G1 and HTC Vive Pro

Testing & Benchmarking the HP Reverb G2 vs. the HP G1 and HTC Vive Pro BTR has been reviewing and benchmarking VR games and hardware since 2016 when we started out with a Rift CV1 and then upgraded to a …

GeForce 461.40 Driver Performance Analysis – Using Ampere and Turing

Game Ready GeForce 461.40 Driver Performance Analysis — 16 games benchmarked using an RTX 3080 and 2080 Ti This driver performance analysis showcases the performance of a Gigabyte AORUS RTX 3080 MASTER (Ampere architecture) and an EVGA RTX 2080 Ti …

Exclusive Interview with AMD on the Future of VR

Exclusive Interview with AMD on the Future of PC VR As part of BTR’s continuing VR series, we have reached out to multiple HMD and video card manufacturers to get their views regarding the future of VR. We just heard …

Connections

People Want their Streaming to Come Full Circle … Easy-to-Find Choices Let’s see, the pandemic made us shut-ins. The fires (here in California) showed us what the apocalypse was going to look like with the red/orange clouds. Then, what the …

Exclusive Interview with NVIDIA: Is VR Dying or Thriving?

Exclusive Interview with NVIDIA on the Future of Virtual Reality Five years ago, most of the tech press hyped VR as the next big thing after the 3DTV fad faded. When it didn’t happen immediately, disappointment that it didn’t meet …

TEAMGROUP Takes its Memory to the Next Level: Develops Next-Gen DDR5 SO-DIMM

TeamGroup Develops Next-Gen DDR5 SO-DIMM and is expected to be the first to take Intel and AMD’s new platform validation tests Our friends at TeamGroup have a rather exciting announcement. They have developed Next-Gen DDR5 SO-DIMM and are expected to …

Entertainment Biz

M&E shifts to encouraging, relating to the real world Between the pandemic and M&E heavy hitters/wanna bes racing to capture their unfair share of the new consumer entertainment pot of gold, people at every level have been busy refreshing their …

The Sim Side: iRacing Special Event – Daytona 24 Hour

Hello and happy 2021 to all of our BTR readers. As The Sim Side cooks up it’s new content, here’s a fun event for any who love, or would like to see what simracing is all about at it’s most …

Content Insider Special – Virtual CES 2021 – Part 3

Consumer Hardware Needs Content Quantity, Variety Since the earliest CES, the OMG of the show has always been the screen … bigger, better, brighter, more immersive, more versatile, less expensive. That’s a good thing because this year’s virtual event (and …

Content Insider Special – Virtual CES 2021 – Part 2

The Tech Event that Mixes Business and Pleasure Chips are important…DUH, but there’s more to CES than present/future technology. There’s also the practical side for home and the office. While chips are in everything today, most of us feel the …

Content Insider Special – Virtual CES 2021 Part 1

A Technology Event So Big You Can’t See It All in One Seating After years of working the floor at CES, it’s easy to summarize … dumb from the neck up, numb from the neck down. This year was worse. …

Show Me

It’s Time for the Next Generation of Streaming Service While growing up in the midwest, a big deal every fall was going to the annual county fair, every day. We became enthralled one year watching a barker hawking knives or …