moving on to the next topic moving on the next topic which is me do we have
any b-roll that we can pull on that oh man no you know let me load it up give
me a second here he's gonna tell you what it is basically we saw this at the
sky like X launch and then it was so cool I want to take a look at it on
video if you go to PC world comm you can see it Intel basically set out to do a
proof of concept no it's not something that everyone would want to do but you
can do which is pretty neat is they took a single PC and they got it to run for
five headsets so you could and we did this we actually had it in our office in
our conference room and we were able to play for people were able to play bridge
crew start track bridge crew with one PC and that what's been so badass
I mean it's cool I mean a lot of people are saying why would you ever want to do
this but then you kind of think like god with VR it's something and I realized
this afterwards because you know I came out with my kids we were playing VR and
you're sitting there looking at your phone the whole time right while they're
taking turns like if you actually could have multiplayer you know VR without the
cost of then also having another gaming PC it's cool then you might have you
know live headsets are gonna get cheaper if you could play to people with with VR
then then you're basically like hey you're you're instead of you sitting
there watching the other person you know gape their mouth open you have anybody
who has a vive headset and you shot somebody you're like okay yeah that's
cool then they're just kind of like wow you're okay and you're like you just
want to make sure they don't you know trip and fall through the glass table
that's it but you're bored out of your mind so I think the ability to play two
player and then four player with a single PC is something that's pretty
cool and the way Intel did this of course is is a little bit of a hack I
don't know if Adam can do we know almost it's getting there it's getting this
transcoding transcoding but it's fine what they did was so they they took a
you know standard tower PC they put four GPUs in it they used a 1080
three nvidia quadro p for thousands and those are single slot GPUs the way
you're gonna you want to run yeah for thousands so P for three for P for
thousands those cards are basically you know they're not cheap but in
performance they fall kind of in between ten seventy at a 1080 it looks like
probably closer to attend slower lower than at ten seventy in fact actually I
got that wrong between a ten sixty and a ten seventy and performance probably and
why did they pick those and they picked those mostly because you know it's it
was a standard X 299 motherboard so they needed single slot GPUs and nobody
really makes him alot GPUs of any any performance so the only way they could
do that was using through Quadros now of course somebody made a single slot 1070
or 1060 card I think they could have done that but there aren't any cards and
they booted the machine into a virtual machine it was a unread server Pro I
believe pretty neat so it runs as a hypervisor they boot into the VM and
then from that they booted for Windows 10 sessions and each of the video cards
was its own PC basically and then they took the the ten core 79 79 hundred X
and they gave each of those machines you know two cores in two hyper threading
threads right so sort of four cores each and each of them had their own SATA SSDs
and the last thing they did to sort of make this entire thing work was to use a
Allegra pro USB card which it's a USB card that is made for people who really
need high-performance USB three it's got four USB controllers on it so because
they did that vibe does need USB three each of the machines got his own u.s.
own USB 3 controller so by doing that they were able to get this entire thing
to run for five headsets on one PC no not really now we're showing oh now
we're showing it there we go this is the box that's the box right there
that's unread I'm looking at the little tiny screen so he's setting it up to to
boot into Windows this is Intel actually came by with his demo and I was right
on that no when is right there yeah yeah so that of course there's your 7900 X
and there's your three P four thousand cards there's your ten eighty card I
think it was a fan text case and of course I had a Star Trek sticker on it
that's the same case I bought for my PC upgrade later this year yeah it's a nice
case I like fantex there's the USB 3 yeah there's your USB 3 card and then
you can see all of the GPUs there and I think they they put in 64 gigs of ram so
they just put that among all the different virtual machines i like the
enterprise sticker at the bottom of the case yeah classy
what i like of course is we all wore our search our costumes well if you force
them to wear but it was you know it highly encouraged it was pretty neat I
mean I gotta say yeah I don't think anybody's gonna really do this I mean
you can though which is which is kind of neat in the if you wanted to those
that's your recipe right there you can do it intel did it you can do yourself
if you wanted to today but you know clearly I think there is a need for
multiplayer VR with the single gaming PC do you guys think I'm crazy or actually
have a I thought I had a bar in my downstairs living room and I tore it out
and I made it into a vert of I've virtual reality nook so we can all play
me yarn and I would love if I could just buy another vive headset and hook it up
so I could play with my kids rather than you know watching my friends watch my
friends you know playing space pirate trainer or whatever side by side would
be friggin awesome yeah and it definitely would be better to do it with
one PC because then it's just the cost of the headset right I mean mm-hmm
I don't know if the I don't know if it's possible within DirectX to have it I
mean probably not but if you could have one video card run it but you know I
probably not maybe hey in video that that's a great use for multi GPS right
so I don't know who really needs to enable this in the ecosystem but I think
it's pretty cool what do you guys would you do it so my question is like from a
pragmatic standpoint like cost wise is it really that much more efficient to go
with that single see as opposed to actually building out
separate pcs like I'm trying to figure that that angle up here I don't think it
would be with the Intel configuration with all those quadrille cards yeah but
for maybe a two-player setup I think it would like if you could just take two
graphics cards and have an eight or ten chord chip and devote half of that to
one set up half of that to the other similarly to this I think that I would
love to do that I would not buy another full PC for another PR setup but I would
buy another graphics card in another headset not in the minute because it's
expensive good yeah prices dropped and I gotta say that thing too is like because
I mean people say well you know gosh of course we're talking you know I 9 prices
that's kind of a different world but you said I could build another you know 2 KB
like boxes instead of having one single you know so sky like Xbox right so we
were talking purely on the Intel side yes we know AMD rise and third or for
self that's different even there it's cheaper to build you know rise in five
boxes than a throw per box sort of right so but I the way I sort of see it as
like this machine when you're not running multiple vr5 settings you have
your 12 or 16 or 10 core machine that you can then throw at your other
workloads if you have to separate gaming boxes you have to separate gaming boxes
you're not going to be using both CPUs at the same time with it is more
efficient to have one single 12 core 10 core 16 core I sense to me like so my
person looking on it what personal opinion on it would be that depending on
the use case then I can definitely see the single PC being a much better choice
so like say it's like you're the main person who's going to be using that
machine and you need it really powerful to do work like say what Adams doing
with video but absolutely then like you know say like your friends or kids come
like are over doing something and you want to hook up extra vibes and great
right but I also can see a different use case where say that everyone in the
household actually needs their own PC and nobody's really doing a lot of like
you know high performance work then it could actually be more pragmatic to
actually still have the separate machines yeah
that that works too I mean everybody's just have five backpack just walk around
the house with it so that would be and used to have emitters everywhere in your
house that was my joke I think with long time ago we just you would take a
picture of your house when it's really clean or your desk at work at your desk
at work that's great but it's actually in a VR world so I think it's pretty
cool is this something clearly not gonna happen today maybe three years oh now I
think it's it's it would be neat if you know if a valve and oculus of this is
something that you thought about though right multiplayer it you know why not
we're all gonna have eight 10 12 cores four years from now they're gonna be
cheaper than dirt so why not why not do it so every family bundle deal yes it'd
be a great use for all these new multi-core processors coming out it
could reinvigorate SLI or you know crossfire yeah even if you just
optimized for two-player setups I think that's all you would need to make it
still very niche but a niche that a lot of people to be attracted to I'd be
attracted to it yeah yeah yeah and arguably the r is already like you know
a tiny sliver of the market you want to break that item is smaller but we're
talking two years from now so you're years from now I think it'll happen
hopefully so