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Nvidia is offering gamers a 65-inch upgrade on their gaming display(Credit: Nvidia)

Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGDs) are aimed at gamers who want a seriously good look at the action, and Nvidia just unveiled its very first BFGD at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. The huge 65-inch screen also comes with Android TV built in as well, for everything you need for a post-game chill out.

With 4K resolutions, HDR support, low latencies, and a 120 Hz refresh rate, these displays have plenty in them to make gamers drool. Nvidia is partnering with a bunch of companies, including Acer, Asus, and HP, to actually manufacture the displays, which have been two years in the making.

"In practice, all this tech ensures your gun fires instantly in PUBG when facing down a foe, that movement is clear and free of blur, that there's no tearing or stuttering when playing, and that the action shown is at the highest levels of detail possible when you play with a suitably-powerful graphics card," says Nvidia.

If all that wasn't tempting enough, the displays are effectively Nvidia Shield devices as well, embedding the Shield components behind the screen so you get all of that Android TV goodness too – apps from Spotify to Netflix, plus a host of Android games as well. Google Assistant is on board to add some extra smarts.

One of the bonuses that the Nvidia Shield experience offers over the standard Android TV setup is the GameStream technology that lets you wirelessly stream games from any PC on the local network using a GeForce card. In other words, you can enjoy games in the living room that are actually running on your bedroom-based high-end PC upstairs.

The Asus ROG Swift PG65 is the first of these displays to be announced

Until Nvidia's partners in this BFGD enterprise make their own announcements, we can't give you exact details on pricing and availability, but you can expect these to be premium devices commanding a premium price.

Asus has been the first company out of the blocks, previewing its ROG Swift PG65 at CES. You get all of the specs we mentioned above, plus 1,000 nits peak brightness, dynamic contrast control, high-end DCI-P3 color gamut support, and a 178-degree viewing angle.

The Asus panel also comes with Nvidia G-Sync technology, so any stutters that occur at the high-end 4K 120 fps frame rate can be smoothed out by working closely with a compatible Nvidia graphics card on the other end. That same tight communication between monitor and graphics card is reported to result in ultra low latency too.

Asus says the ROG Swift PG65 will be out at some point later this year, and we'd expect the other Nvidia BFGDs to follow a similar timeframe. If you're interested in the best and biggest displays for your home gaming setup, these are monitors worth keeping an eye out for.

Source: Nvidia, NewAtlas

Elon Musk speaks at an Nvidia conference(Credit: Nvidia)

In a seemingly impromptu Twitter Q&A yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed some further details about the company's expansion into larger forms of terrestrial electric vehicles. Promising that a long-awaited pickup truck was indeed on the way, he also hinted at a few upcoming software upgrades to make life easier for existing Tesla owners.
Tesla first signaled its intentions to move into the trucking space when Musk published Master Plan, Part Deux in July of 2016. Musk wrote of the Tesla Semi's potential to "deliver a substantial reduction in the cost of cargo transport," and also listed a new kind of pickup truck as part of its strategy to hit most segments of the consumer market.
Musk then took to Twitter in April last year to state that the pickup unveil was 18 to 24 months away. His latest public statements on the matter don't do much to clarify this timeline, but do suggest he hasn't lost any enthusiasm for the project.
"I promise that we will make a pickup truck right after Model Y," he tweeted. "Have had the core design/engineering elements in my mind for almost 5 years. Am dying to build it."
The Tesla Model Y is Tesla's upcoming all-electric compact SUV, expected to be built on a new vehicle platform and launched in 2019 at the earliest. Musk expanded a little on what the pickup might look like, in response to a Twitter user asking how it would compare to America's best-selling pickup, the Ford F-150."Similar total size," he tweeted. "Maybe slightly bigger to account for a really game-changing (I think) feature I'd like to add."
What that game-changing feature might be is anyone's guess, but Musk did tease a few new bells and whistles for those with a Tesla already parked in the driveway. According to the tech tycoon, new features to be added via software updates in the near future include app-controlled window, seat and steering wheel heaters, an upgraded browser, "vastly better" maps and navigation and windscreen wipers that adjust their speed automatically depending on how heavy the rainfall is.
Musk also appeared to okay a number of other requests from owners, but without specifying a timeline. These include a feature where internal cameras automatically start recording if the windows are smashed in the event of a break-in, the navigation system sending an alert to other family members about what time to expect you home and some kind of Disco Mode, where ambient light changes in time to funky beats.
"Was gonna say we'll do all but the last, but that last one sounds like good, cheesy fun :)," he said.