LG to Bring NVIDIA GeForce NOW Cloud Gaming to WebOS Smart TVs
LG announced partnership with NVIDIA to be the first TV manufacturer to develop a Smart TV app of GeForce NOW, the premier cloud game-streaming service, for LG TVs running webOS.
The app will be available in beta starting this week in the LG Content Store on select 2021 LG 4K OLED, QNED Mini LED and NanoCell TV models in 80 markets.2 The app will enable LG TV owners with compatible TVs to instantly enjoy over 35 free-to-play games with just a compatible controller, no additional hardware required.
Games include Rocket League and Destiny 2 plus hit titles such as Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Crysis Remastered Trilogy, all playable at up to 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second. GeForce NOW Priority members get access to the most advanced platform for ray tracing and AI technologies, streaming from NVIDIA RTX-powered servers in data centers worldwide for the most responsive gameplay and gorgeous, high-quality graphics.
The powerful combination of GeForce NOW and LG OLED TV will mean immersive gaming at its finest. LG OLED’s self-lit pixels ensure the most vibrant colors and deepest blacks to make in-game environments and characters more realistic than ever. LG TVs also deliver ultra-fast 1 millisecond response time and super-low input lag for smoother visuals, better control and a key advantage over the competition.
“LG customers are expecting the best when it comes to gaming on a large screen,” said Lee Sang-woo, senior vice president of corporate business strategy at LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company. “Partnering with NVIDIA to bring GeForce NOW to LG TV owners is a sign of our commitment to deliver the best gaming experience on LG TVs running webOS.”
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Nvidia had been very ahead of it's time with regards to cloud and remote gaming.
their time is now given that tv's (esp 4k) have been computers from the advent of hdtv., but only now has the lower price of computing (of any sort) intersected with the wider distribution (demographically) of high speed internet which has seen its own prices drop along with an explosion of content.
so now they'll have their own shortcut on given tv's, just like Netflix will be streaming games as well as Google.
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I have LG OLED,I have GForce now founder edition. This seems like a great idea,I will be checking this out for sure. I just built a new PC with 12900K,RTX 3080 Blah,blah,blah but imagine the cash I could have saved.
Looks like Nvidia is pushing to the future of gaming,wonder when GPU's will disappear and be in the cloud or cpu .
Thanks for sharing,just realized something sad. This forum is the place where I get tech news,do not watch TV,news,movies.If not for the forum,I would have missed this information.
I can not see it replacing the normal gaming hardware anytime soon. Other than they will have to place servers worldwide witch is far away , a lot of areas are not up to snuff networkspeed wise and not to mention that bandwidth caps , that are literally double dipping . In my mind is like paying for a service and then they charge you for daring to use it ...
That said i believe it will be a market that will keep growing .
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I have LG OLED,I have GForce now founder edition. This seems like a great idea,I will be checking this out for sure. I just built a new PC with 12900K,RTX 3080 Blah,blah,blah but imagine the cash I could have saved.
Looks like Nvidia is pushing to the future of gaming,wonder when GPU's will disappear and be in the cloud or cpu .
Thanks for sharing,just realized something sad. This forum is the place where I get tech news,do not watch TV,news,movies.If not for the forum,I would have missed this information.