- Welcome my friends to Asus'...
(descending instrumental music)
(onlooker in black skirt laughs)
- Well, why do you have a...
What is this? Why do you have a photo of me?
Why did I not shave in this photo?
- Did you not? - Is it life size?
- [Matt] It's somehow bigger.
- I don't always expect to be trolled.
Why is my mouth...
(Ken laughs)
Hello. Welcome to today's video. Boy oh boy, I love Asus.
- [Ken] It actually works.
Yeah. (Austin laughs)
Do the video like that. (Austin laughs)
- [Austin] Did you just invite me here to make fun of me?
What is this for?
- So this is going to help you give those guys
some kind of idea of what
our Spacial Vision 3D OLED Display does to your eyes.
What it looks like.
- Spacial Vision 3D OLED.
- Yeah. Yeah. - Okay.
- You can shoot it through your mouth.
(upbeat instrumental music)
- Okay, I would like to thank our friends at Asus
for sponsoring this video
and approving what's going on right now.
So this is specifically the ProArt Studiobook 16
3D OLED. - Correct.
- And the idea here is that not only
is it a very high end device,
but it actually has a full... oh it's doing it.
Oh it's already doing it.
Oh, okay. - What's it?
- So this is gonna deliver glasses free 3D,
which normally has been one of those things
where it's like, "Oh it's kind of all right or whatever",
but that... so, okay, what's going on right now
is that there are a couple of cameras
which are tracking my eyes to essentially keep
the panel oriented correctly.
If I use this, it'll lock onto this, right? Okay.
So now, the laptop is tracking fake Austin
and delivering- - Fake Austin?
- Well, what do you wanna call it?
Cardboard Austin.
You've got 120 Hertz OLED panel here, right?
That makes sense to me.
And you've got the eye tracking
to determine exactly where I'm at,
but how are you actually doing this in the actual display?
How is it actually... 'cause as I move left and right,
I can see it's tracking and everything looks
like it's still staying very, very stable in 3D space.
- Right, so there's a lenticular lens system.
- Lenticular. There we go. - Into the screen,
so basically there's millions of tiny lenses
built into the panel that split the image
into left eye and right eye so.
- Gotcha.
- Part of the screen is going to your left eye
and part of it's going to your right eye
and as you move, the angle or the image that it's showing
on the left side and the right eye changes
based on where you are at.
- Oh, okay. Fine.
Are we actually speeding? Okay.
So anytime you're trying to shoot 3D on camera,
it is very, very difficult,
which is why cardboard Austin exists.
So I'm going to show what it's like to come through Austin.
- [Sasha] What the world looks like
through your mouth.
- Oh, actually that does a really good job.
So you can see that the 3D is actually staying very stable.
It's actually tracking up down, left, right.
Those items look like there's depth.
I feel like I could reach
a couple of feet back into the display.
So this is an option on the ProArt Studiobook
as well as on the-
- [Sasha] Vivobook Pro 16X.
- Essentially this is meant almost as a,
not a prototype, but this is the first wave
of truly good glasses free 3D that's no downside.
- Because of the lens system,
the brightness is slightly lower,
but it's so small you can't really tell.
- This is, well obviously not for everyone
and everyone who's gonna be able to take advantage...
you can't just load up a game with like Valorant
and immediately see it in 3D.
It does have to be an application which is specifically
able to take advantage of full 3D, right?
- Correct.
So to be able to have it 3D, you need two render targets.
The left eye and right eye. - Right.
- That means VR games always do have that
and they work on this. - Oh.
- So any VR game. - Interesting.
- That works with keyboard and mouse or with a game pad,
works with this. - That's cool.
And of course, you can just turn this on and off.
So right now we've got it in full 3D mode
but if we turned off the 3D function,
you would never know it was there.
It's just a super high quality 120 hertz OLED display.
- Correct. - This is very cool.
I think it's very cool.
I don't know why I did that.
I'm making fun of myself with the voice.
- [Ken] It's like "The Annoying Orange"
but just you being more annoying.
- Look. It works. (Ken laughs)
- (clears throat) You invite me here
just to wound me, don't you?
I'm gonna interview everyone like this from now on.
Ken, what do you think about this?
- [Ken] This is the closest my boss has ever been to me.
- There's a wide range of new Asus ZenBooks,
but one of the things that jumped out to me most,
first of all is that OLED is on
almost every single device here,
but also there's some really interesting stuff
that they're doing on the internal.
So this is specifically the ZenBook Pro 16x.
Very high end, you can see.
You've got a bunch of creator focused stuff,
but what I actually wanna talk about
is what's on the inside.
So this is the motherboard of last year's model.
You can see that you've got the graphics card here,
or your GPU and you've got your CPU and your RAM.
So they've got a little measurement
which it's basically 60 by 50 millimeters, right?
Which is what you have for your RAM.
You have everything. It's a small package.
But look at this.
So this is the Supernova SoM,
and essentially what you've got here is your CPU
and your RAM all on one package.
Now that's really cool because essentially
it really shrinks the actual area.
It's similar to another type of device
that you could also have your memory
and CPU all together (clears throat),
we won't talk about that,
but what it gives you is more room on the motherboard.
So you can see right here we've got our GPU
and that gives more room for the VRM, for the memory.
So it's not only just about cooling these things,
but it's about having the physical space
on the motherboard to take advantage of more power
and more performance,
and having that as one individual unit
is really, really neat.
It doesn't seem like something
you would ever know on the outside,
but having this stuff on the inside of your device
can actually make a big difference.
I'm fired up. I'm excited.
I haven't slept in 27 hours.
- [Ken] You're Zen?
- No. I'm not Zen at all (laughs).
OLED is a big theme of a lot of the devices here
and none more so than the 14X.
Not only does it have that 120 hertz 2.8K display,
but also has a really interesting coating.
So I opened up a little bit here.
You'll see that the back of it is actually ceramic coated,
so it's a little bit of a different feel
and it's actually a much more eco-friendly finish,
but it definitely gives it a interesting vibe.
- Like. - I did...
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
A little bit of that. You can... just a little bit of that.
So a lot of fun goodies here,
but one of the devices that I've never
been able to try is this.
This is the ExpertBook B9,
specifically the new OLED model, the B9 403.
I'm not gonna touch it,
'cause this laptop, I've always known it
for one very specific reason.
It is one of the absolute lightest laptops
in the world made out of magnesium,
and even though now it's got a slightly larger display,
and it's got a little bit more performance
with an extra cooling fan,
it still weighs less than one kilo.
I've wanted to touch one of these for three years.
As long as you guys have been making them.
I've never actually done it before.
(laughs) It's two fingers.
Feel that.
- [Ken] Oh, whoa, okay (giggles).
- Dude, that is ridiculous.
If you are making laptops, that are thin and light
and you say you can't put ports,
this laptop weighs almost nothing.
We've got a full size HDMI, two Thunderbolts.
We've got... did you put mini HDMI on this?
- [Sasha] It is a mini HDMI plug,
but it's actually for ethernet.
- Oh, wait, there's also a USB-A.
You've got all this on a laptop that's this thin
and this light?
Man, no one has an excuse.
Be better.
As I walk through the booth to give you the best example
of what Asus has to offer,
there's one device that has jumped out to me
in a way I was not expecting.
This is the Chromebook Vibe CX34 Flip.
Now, I was immediately drawn to this
because the color scheme I think is really cool.
So this is a gaming Chromebook.
We've talked about this before on the channel,
but essentially what you've got is a 144 hertz panel,
actually good specs,
so not only do you have a touchscreen (laughs),
I definitely touched it hoping it was touchscreen (laughs),
but you also have proper specs.
You've got yourself Wi-Fi 6E
which is important for cloud gaming.
The other thing that I actually like these devices for
isn't necessarily just for gaming, right?
Chromebooks and gaming,
while you can obviously do cloud gaming on it,
what I like about it,
is they also are just really good laptops.
You've got solid specs, really good Wi-Fi, terrific screen,
and I love this colorway.
The white, the orange accents, the 14 inch size,
I wish I would've done my 30 days with this Chromebook
instead of the other one I picked.
I heard you like Wi-Fi.
How about some Wi-Fi 7?
Look, I'm intimidated being in the same room as this one.
I'm not gonna lie.
Look at the size of this thing.
Now it's got itself actually proper specs in here.
You can be running VPNs on
at the same time as you've got
a ridiculous level of bandwidth.
- [Matt] That router is more powerful than my PC.
- (laughs) Man, you need a new PC (laughs).
Hey wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Ken?
Ken? - What?
- [Austin] What are you... where's the camera?
You're still speeding?
You're trying to move stuff outta the way.
Did you realize what this is?
This is a PCI Gen 5.0 SSD.
You almost put this...
you were getting this outta the way of the shot.
I literally know nothing more than the fact
that I've got this little piece of paper,
but this is a PCI Gen 5.0 SSD.
What's the speed on this?
13? 13 gigabytes per, 13 gigabytes per, 13 gigabytes?
This might be one of the world's fastest SSDs,
and you were about to get it outta the way
'cause it was in the the middle of your shot.
- [Ken] Yeah. It was in the way of the cool Xbox.
- 13.5 gigabytes per second?
Something I wasn't expecting is ROG to bring out
an Xbox controller.
So they have both the Raikiri and Raikiri Pro,
and these jump into a little bit more
of the pro controller space.
So you can see this is the Pro.
So I'm gonna fire it up.
It not only has an OLED,
you also have some very nice sticks,
but on top of that, this is the wireless version.
So there's also a wired version
which you can see is already plugged in and connected
and you've got some actual RGB on it and whatnot,
but I will say about both of these
is that they feel high quality in a way
that a lot of third party controller generally don't.
The build quality is there and while the standard model
which is wired, is a little bit lightweight in my opinion,
but as soon as you go over to the wireless version,
which will support Bluetooth, 2.4 as well as USB-C,
but you look at the way that you've got your trigger stops,
you've also got some really nice
programmable buttons on the back.
I've actually never tried something
that has them quite in this orientation.
I'm really excited to see it
because you don't see a lot of really high quality
third party Xbox controllers.
Generally you've got the Elite controller
and there's a couple of others,
but usually you wanna go with the Elite controller,
and I actually would say this might be
worth considering over the Elite,
especially because you've got that OLED.
You got your profile, you got exactly
how it's connected and everything.
- [Ken] It's pretty roggers, dude.
- If you say roggers one more time...
I heard that you had a new G14.
- Yes. - Is this true?
- Yes. It is.
- Can I try it?
- Of course.
- Excellent.
- How does this sound? - Okay.
- Up to an RTX 4090.
- 4090? - With 125 watt TGP.
- You're putting a 4090? - Yes.
- In a 14 inch laptop? - Yes.
- Is that a good idea? - Yes.
(Austin laughs) Absolutely.
- Some of the things you'll find on the entire range
of ROG 2023 laptops include the Nebula displays,
which is gonna give you 500 nits of brightness,
even down to the 13 inch displays,
you're also getting Advanced Optimus.
Pretty much the entire line up this year
has been upgraded in one way or another.
Why, hello. Didn't see you there.
I was just admiring this tiny little gaming PC.
So you know what they say about small things?
They're always better. Personal experience.
This is the ROG G22CH.
It has an incredibly tiny chassis
and yet they've got this thing loaded up.
You can water cool this? - Yeah.
- Where? - You can have a radiator
at the top. - Oh, neat.
The reason I bring this up
is because this is currently running a demo
of one of the most absurdly fast
gaming monitors I've ever seen.
So this, it's 144 hertz.
You know, if you are an old school gamer,
you've got gray hair, you're playing at 144 hertz,
pff, no, no, no.
All the cool kids are rocking 540 hertz.
So this is the Swift Pro PG248GP.
It has a 1080p full HD 540 hertz monitor.
Sorry to say you're not gonna be able to see this
on a YouTube video, but 144 hertz.
Very, very smooth.
(camera clicks) - All right, what's that?
- Oh! Ken, you're so smart.
So Ken literally just took a photo of the displays.
You can actually see the difference.
The 144 is doing some ghosting.
Whereas the 500 essentially is not,
and that's almost entirely
down to the shutter speed of this camera I bet.
I'm gonna be honest with you, I've in the past
been a little bit skeptical
of being able to see that much more beyond like 120, 144.
I'm gonna stare at this for a second
and I'm gonna tell you if I can tell it's not perfect.
It's not even close.
This is very smooth if I didn't know any better.
This is perfect.
There's no way my eyes can see more than 540.
I'll be here in three years
and I'll be like, "A thousand hertz?"
- [Ken] That's a lot of hertz.
- It's gonna gigahert. - Oh God.
- Get it?
'Cause it's a thousand? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was nice. - Proud of that one.
Oh no, megahert.
No! Megahert not gigahert.
I ruined my joke!
Asus will definitely kick me out.