New Indie Bundle for GeForce GTX 1060 & GTX 1050 and VR Funhouse news

Nvidia’s Indie Spotlight Program now works with 200 participating Indie developers and they are updating their Indie game bundle for the holidays. Starting now through January 30, 2017, buyers of participating GeForce GTX 1060 and 1050 graphics cards, including GTX …

Nvidia’s Oculus Touch Launch Week Giveaway

To celebrate the arrival of the Oculus Touch, Nvidia will be giving away prizes all month including game codes, GeForce GTX graphics cards, Oculus Rift Headset and Touch controller bundles, and even a custom PC. And Nvidia has just released …

VR Progress

Learning, Testing the Boundaries of New Content Production There are many ways to describe VR film shooting, production. For me, it’s like open ocean scuba diving. Get down 40-60 feet and you’re immersed in a world of nothingness. All around …

The Fury X vs. the GTX 980 Ti Revisited with 36 Games including Watch Dogs 2

It’s been at least six months since BTR compared the Fury X versus the GTX 980 Ti and versus the GTX 1070. It will be interesting to see if there have been any major changes since then. Has Nvidia neglected …

Social Shift

Social Media is the Customers’ Domain, Not Marketing’s If Tim Berners-Lee, often called the inventor of the World Wide Web, had known that his development of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) back in 1989 would become a huge, unrelenting ad hose, …

Nvidia is bundling WATCH_DOGS 2 with GTX 1070/1080 GPUs

At BTR we are keenly anticipating WATCH_DOGS 2 when it is released for PC on Tuesday, November 29. We expect it will become BTR’s latest benchmark. We really liked the original WATCH_DOGS which released over two years ago as one …

VR Work

Post Production – The Drudgery Part of VR Filmmaking If you were lucky enough to live in the Americas, you were able to watch most of the Summer Olympics in near real time – streamed to your computer at the …

Nvidia is Giving Away Gears of War 4 keys to lucky GeForce Experience Gamers

Gears of War 4 launched last month to critical acclaim, and BTR gave it a solid “8” in our review of it. And this week, Nvidia is giving away free game codes at random to lucky GeForce gamers using GeForce …

The HyperX Cloud Stinger Review

HyperX released the HyperX Cloud Stinger gaming headset last month. It is a comfortable and inexpensive headset widely available for under $50 which is designed primarily for gamers. We received a evaluation sample from HyperX and have been using the …

VR Filmmaking

The New Film, Video Experience Begins to Take Hold Industry analysts – and the media folks who interpret what they say – swear Pokemon Go is proving that AR (augmented reality) is real. Jeezz folks, it isn’t really AR – …

Introducing EVGA’s SuperNOVA G3 Power Supplies

EVGA SuperNOVA power supplies are well-known for their extreme efficiency, performance and reliability. In fact, BTR chose an original EVGA G1 1000W PSU to power our own flagship PC used for benchmarking, and it is still going strong. Over the …

Power Play

SMPTE Paves the Way for Content in the Cloud, VR Elon Musk probably didn’t realize he missed a great opportunity to find out what his “competitor” was doing and how to prepare for his first trip to Mars. Okay, that …