NVIDIA is one of those tech companies that always arrives at a big event in Las Vegas with a very loaded saddlebag. of the most interesting novelties and at CES 2024 he did it again. The highlight, of course, was the presentation of the RTX 40 SUPER, which we already informed you about in detail a few hours ago, and which represents a remarkable expansion of the catalog of the Ada Lovelace generation, in the latest great machine. in this sense, until, presumably, the RTX 50 generation is introduced in the fall of this year.

Now the main course is not synonymous with a single dish and a green giant also announced news regarding GeForce Now with NVIDIA ACE on FrameView, generative artificial intelligence… in short, a comprehensive list with ads that deserve a review, as their scope is really wide. So without further ado, let’s start with their good review.

NVIDIA ACE

On May 29, during Computex 2023, NVIDIA unveiled its NVIDIA ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) technology that will enable NPC (Non Playable Characters) behavior be controlled by artificial intelligence, something that will add much more depth to your contributions to the gaming experience. To this end, there are actually several components that are responsible for the functions implicit in ACE, such as the generative model responsible for generating dialogs or the software responsible for the correspondence between the text-to-speech output and the synchronization with the model. 3D NPC.

So, Today, NVIDIA announced microservices production for ACE, which significantly facilitates its implementation in all types of games, and in response to this movement, quite a few developers have already begun to adopt this technology. These include Charisma.AI, Convai, Inworld, miHoYo, NetEase Games, Ourpalm, Tencent, Ubisoft, and UneeQ, so we can expect their development NPCs to start showing much more complex behavior in some time.

At first glance, this novelty may seem more aimed at the professional sector, but at the moment it is important to understand that the microservices format is no longer a trend, but a fully consolidated model, and therefore the possibility of using NVIDIA ACE In will undoubtedly be translated, in more developers adopting this technology and therefore in a great qualitative improvement of the gaming experience.

GeForce Now

NVIDIA cloud gaming service managed to build a success story in an area that many thought lacked potential for that. So what started as a service with a few titles and available only from a very limited list of devices, today offers a catalog of more than 1800 games and its reach is practically universal: PC, smartphones, tablets, televisions, Android TV devices … the list of advantages is truly huge and the company keeps adding games, yes, but also many other improvements.

The announcement that many people have been wanting and that has materialized today is that two new Activision Blizzard titles will soon be added, Diablo IV and Overwatch 2, which is another sign that the collaboration between Microsoft and NVIDIA is going very well, as we have already seen in the previous months. But soon we will also see the arrival of great titles from other studios, such as e.g Honkai: Star Rail from HoYoverse, Exoprimal by Capcom, Pax Dei which will debut on the day of its launch and many more that we will inform you about at MuyComputer.

Over time, I’ve already met a few people with free accounts who would like to try out the Priority and Ultimate accounts before signing up. Well, NVIDIA will also respond to this request, as well as the requests of users who only want to use these accounts occasionally. So, From February it will be possible to get a daily pass, which will allow us to use the chosen modality without restrictions for 24 hours. The price will be $3.99 for Priority Access and $7.99 for Ultimate mode.

There is little difference between local and cloud gaming, as my colleague Isidro already said when testing the GeForce Now Ultimate, and as I was able to personally verify, and with today’s further announcement, this list will become even smaller, given that NVIDIA brings G-SYNC technology to cloud gaming, guaranteeing an exceptionally low-latency gaming experience and minimizing interruptions for maximum gaming fluidity. Additionally, new 60 and 120 fps streaming options will be offered for GFN Reflex mode.

And last but not least, an update has also been announced for GeForce Now users on Android, and that’s it Now it will be possible to transmit a signal with a resolution of 1440pa on these smartphoneswhich allows you to get the most out of high-end smartphones with high-performance screens, as well as connect the device to an external monitor and enjoy the image quality on it.

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NVIDIA’s reach is really broad, so there were very interesting announcements in other areas as well:

• Getty Images will use NVIDIA Picasso: Generative image models are all the rage, but in many cases they face a major problem, which is the intellectual property of the assets used to train the model. In this case, however, Getty Images worked hand-in-hand with NVIDIA to train its Picasso model exclusively with images it owns the rights to. In this way, users of this new service, powered by NVIDIA and powered by Getty intellectual property, will be able to use generations without problems and without worrying about rights.
• FrameView 1.5: If you don’t know, FrameView is an application that allows us to make very accurate measurements of frame rate, power per watt, time between frames and many other data that determine the performance of a graphics adapter. With this new update comes new features such as FSR 3 support, new tools for easier detection of features that can distort measurements, new metrics and more.
• Improved transcoding with OBS Studio: As a result of a collaboration between NVIDIA, Twitch and OBS Studio, streamers with NVIDIA graphics adapters will soon be able to stream up to three resolutions simultaneously at up to 1080p resolution (much higher resolutions will be reached later in the first test phase) using the NVENC encoder present in both the GTX and RTX families.

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