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Acer Announces Support For The New NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs On Its Predator Orion Series Gaming Desktops

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Acer announced support for the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs on its Predator Orion series gaming desktops. Thanks to the new GPUs powered by the all-new NVIDIA Turing architecture, the Predator Orion 9000, 5000, and 3000 gaming desktops will be able to provide incredible new levels of gaming realism, speed, power efficiency, and immersion. “Acer … Read more

Acer Announces Gaming Desktop Range with New Nvidia GPUs

Acer has announced that its latest Predator Orion-series gaming desktops feature Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs. (Nvidia Changes the Game in Ray Tracing) A spokesperson said, “The new Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs have reinvented graphics and set a new bar for performance. Powered by the new Nvidia Turing GPU architecture and the revolutionary Nvidia RTX platform, … Read more

HDR Gaming Interest Group to Propose HDR Game Content Production and Distribution Guidelines

The HDR Gaming Interest Group (HGIG) is proposing a draft of HDR Game Content Production and Distribution Guidelines that will help optimize the consumer gaming experience when playing game content in high dynamic range (HDR). Volunteering companies in the gaming and TV display industries took part in the HDR Gaming Interest Group and are jointly … Read more

HDR Gaming Interest Group to Propose Production and Distribution Guidelines

The HDR Gaming Interest Group (HGiG) is proposing a draft of its HDR Game Content Production and Distribution Guidelines that it says “will help optimise the consumer gaming experience when playing game content in high dynamic range”. Volunteering companies in the gaming and TV display industries are jointly developing the guidelines. A side-by-side comparison of … Read more

StarVR Headset is Immersive

StarVR is a company that we have been watching for a while, having first seen its VR headset at IFA in 2016. At the time, we weren’t over impressed with the quality. However, the firm (originally called Starbreeze) had convinced Acer to be a partner, and then a substantial investor, so it certainly had something. … Read more

Motorola Under Fire for Copying iPhone X with P30 Handset

Motorola has revealed its new P30 smartphone, which has been described as a “brazen”, “shameless” and “egregious” Android remake of the iPhone X. We’re not here to make a judgement as to whether that’s true or not, but what we can tell you is that this new smartphone features a 6.2″ LCD display with a … Read more

Apple Store Evacuated Following iPad Battery Explosion

An Apple store in Leidseplein, Amsterdam was evacuated at the weekend after an iPad’s battery exploded. The local fire service was called to assist, while employees extinguished the fire by placing the device into a sand-filled fire bucket. Three members of staff were treated for breathing problems following the incident, where it is believed that … Read more

Network Outage Causes London Airport’s FIDs to Fail

The UK’s London Gatwick airport was plunged into chaos earlier this week when a damaged fibre cable caused an outage that crippled its flight information displays. Staff had to resort to writing out flight numbers and departure times on a whiteboard, while anxious passengers crowded around to try and see it. Image: Edmund von der … Read more

Nvidia Brings RTX to GeForce Range

At Siggraph, Nvidia announced its RTX cards for professional content creators, based on the new Turing GPU architecture. (Nvidia Changes the Game in Ray Tracing) Now it has released three versions for consumers and keen game players in its GeForce range and they start at $499. There are three versions, the RTX 2080 Ti, 2080 … Read more

AOC Previews DisplayHDR 400 Monitor

AOC announced the Agon 3 Series monitors with two 27″ monitors, which have curved 3-side frameless designs and the AG273QCX features a VA panel with 2560 x 1440 resolution, 144Hz refresh (with FreeSync 2), 4 ms GtG / 1 ms MPRT and wide colour gamut of 90% DCI-P3 coverage. The monitor is certified to meet … Read more

Gamescom 2018: AOC Unveils The Third Generation Of The High Performance Gaming Monitors AGON

Display specialist AOC will present brand new additions to their premium gaming monitor line-up AGON at this year’s gamescom held at the Cologne Exhibition Centre in Germany. The new AGON 3 Series monitors with their sleek, futuristic award-winning design will debut with two curved 27”, QHD monitors: the AG273QCX with FreeSync 2 HDR and PC-VESA … Read more