Introducing the Vive Pro vs. the Oculus Rift

Introducing the Vive Pro versus the Oculus Rift – Part 1 We have been benchmarking VR games since December, 2016. In early August, BTR received a Vive Pro on loan from HTC Vive, just before we left for Honolulu and …

Before the Game

The Real Market for VR/AR … Right Now 2015 was the year virtual reality (VR) finally shed its niche status. 2016 was the year that VR made inroads into mainstream life. 2017 was the year VR and AR (augmented reality) …

New GeForce 399.07 Driver Released for Battlefield V’s Open Beta

New Game Ready GeForce 399.07 Driver Released for Battlefield V’s Open Beta NVIDIA has released a new Game Ready GeForce 399.07 Driver for Battlefield V’s Open Beta. This driver will also provide the best game play experience for GeForce gamers …

Growing Overload

It’s Possible We’re Getting Too Many Great Entertainment Options Despite what young folks on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook Watch think, the M&E industry isn’t a fun, fantastically profitable business. “It’s simply a business,” Aaron Semmel, EP (executive producer) and CEO …

NVIDIA Teases New DLSS and Ansel RTX from Gamescom

NVIDIA Teases New DLSS and Ansel RTX from Gamescom This editor arrived in Germany from Hawaii far too late on Tuesday for Jensen’s public presentation of the new Turing RTX architecture at Gamescom. Fortunately, further information was shared today on …

Flashy Cars

Autonomous Vehicles Will Be Here Later Than Promised, Better Than You Thought Three sessions at the recent Flash Memory Summit (FMS) made it apparent that like it or not, the driverless car is coming.They won’t arrive as quickly as some …

Behind the Scenes with the Vive Pro at the Jurassic Park VR Expedition

Behind the Scenes with the Vive Pro at the Jurassic Park VR Expedition at Dave & Buster’s, Honolulu This editor had to miss SIGGRAPH 2019 in Vancouver although I was invited because I had to head to Honolulu, Hawaii to …

Introducing the EVGA X299 MICRO ATX 2 Motherboard

Introducing the EVGA X299 MICRO ATX 2 Motherboard This press release is from our friends at EVGA: August 14th, 2018 – The X299 MICRO ATX 2 is a reimagined mATX board designed to support the power, performance, and cooling necessary …

What’s in Store

Filmmakers Like to Know Where Their Content Sleeps at Night Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen recently said his firm’s goal is to be the only company that has the end-to-end solution for filmmakers and digital creators. Heck, the way the FAANG (Facebook, …

Ripe Choices

Great Video Content Needs to be Easy to Find, Easy to View We’re starting to think that Netflix looked back into advertising history in its effort to grow and borrowed/modified Lay’s Potato Chips slogan, “Bet you can’t eat just one!” …

The GTX 1060 6GB vs the RX 580 8GB vs the GTX 980 4GB revisited

The Retro Series – the RX 580 8GB vs. the GTX 980 4GB vs. the GTX 1060 6GB It’s been over two years since BTR last compared the RX 480 8GB versus the GTX 1060 6GB, and versus the GTX …

Social Video

Social Video – Social Media Video Vying for Streaming Viewing Time About the only thing that Netflix, Amazon, Tencent, YouTube and Facebook Watch have in common is that they all deliver video content. For the longest time, the Hollywood crowd …