NVIDA has released new details for the company’s future plans at CES 2017:

Tonight, NVIDIA shared its vision for reinventing gaming, TV and transportation at the CES opening keynote, underscoring our leadership in AI, deep learning, gaming and automotive.

As well as unveiling our vision for the AI car — with support from a slew of major automotive industry players — NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled some exciting new gaming technologies that will bring the power of GeForce GTX to millions more gamers in the world.

GeForce Now Comes to Mac and PC Laptops and Desktops

Our new GeForce NOW service gives you instant access to a virtual GeForce® GTX 1080 gaming PC in the cloud. It turns your Mac or PC into a high-performance GeForce gaming machine.  The new GeForce NOW for Mac or PC includes:

• Access to GeForce NOW from a Mac or PC by downloading the client app
• A GeForce GTX 1080 PC gaming experience streamed from our NVIDIA Pascal™ GPU-powered data centers in the cloud
• The freedom to install your own games from game store platforms like Steam, Origin, Uplay, GOG, and Battle.net onto a virtual gaming PC in the cloud and play them on your Mac or PC
• Plus, the option to install and play free-to-play titles like League of Legends via the GeForce NOW app

Early access to a Free Membership begins in Q1-17 with members selected from the waitlist on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit the GFN homepage to join the waitlist and check out our video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8j6y2qUTVM

GeForce Experience Connects To Facebook – Share Straight To Your Timeline

For years, GeForce Experience has enabled gamers to capture and share gameplay to fans and friends. Today, we’re enhancing our sharing capabilities by adding support for Facebook, giving you the ability to broadcast live to Facebook and upload screenshots and recordings directly to your Timeline.

Facebook Live makes it easy to share your gaming moments with friends. Want to show them the latest game you’re playing? Simply hit “Alt+Z” to bring up the GeForce Experience overlay and go live. Your friends can see your gameplay, as well as react and comment while you’re broadcasting. You can also add in your webcam and microphone for more interactivity with your audience. After broadcasting, your video will also be available for friends to watch on your Timeline.

For more information on this cool feature, please check out our story at: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-experience-connects-to-facebook and our Facebook Live Product Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHDqw5kPfFM

Mass Effect Andromeda

Finally, in conjunction with our friends at BioWare, we also showcased never-before-seen exclusive gameplay footage from Mass Effect Andromeda. You can check out the footage here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcidXF1pk4c

G-SYNC HDR—Making Games Look Even Better

Also new at CES, but not covered tonight, is the unveiling of the world’s first G-SYNC High Dynamic Range (HDR) PC gaming monitors featuring 4K panels running at 144Hz, which of course also included G-SYNC’s variable refresh rate technology.

These new G-SYNC HDR monitors have higher peak brightness for stunning, vivid visuals with bold saturated colors; very high contrast for richer, more natural dark scenes; and a wide gamut of colors close to the DCI-P3 cinema standard.

In short, they create more-realistic scenes that better match reality. And by combining those enhancements with HDR programming in games such as Mass Effect Andromeda and Shadow Warrior 2, G-SYNC HDR delivers the next revolution of image quality, leaving you slack-jawed and speechless, just as G-SYNC did the first time you experienced its silky-smooth performance.

The PC is the driving force defining the future of gaming, and 2016 delivered in spades.

It’s no shock that the action was focused on PCs. It’s the most open, customizable, scalable gaming platform – the home of passionate fans. Where the limits of realism, immersion and storytelling get pushed by hardware innovators and game developers.

But even by the platform’s usual dynamic standards, stunning progress was made this past year. Consider the spread of eSports, the surge in digital content sharing, the transformation of games into Hollywood-like spectacles, and the rise of VR.

As one of the world’s biggest gaming brands – with a community of over 200 million GeForce gamers – we did our part to help shape the future of this incredible force.

PC Gaming Booming, Revenue Doubles

The PC’s share of global gaming revenue continues to grow. PC game revenue hit $31 billion in 2016, doubling over the past five years, according to market research firm DFC.

The number of core PC gamers is climbing, too — expected to grow 50 million in 2017 to 400 million, according to market researcher New Zoo. We estimate 70 percent of them play on GeForce gaming PCs. Reflecting these trends, our gaming business has doubled in the past five years.

It’s a business that’s on the move, in part because gaming laptops now go wherever gamers do. With the huge power efficiency gains achieved with our Pascal architecture, gamers can now enjoy a full desktop gaming experience on a laptop, including virtual reality. Our family of 10-Series gaming laptops is complete with the launch of GeForce GTX 1050 at CES, adopted in over 30 designs.  In 2016 we saw sales of gaming laptops accelerate, becoming effectively the fastest-growing gaming platform.

These laptops offer gamers a great 1080p gaming experience and anchor our offering all the way up to our flagship GeForce GTX 1080.  All told, more than 200 GeForce GTX laptop models were released in 2016, the most in our history. In 2016 gamers bought almost three times as many gaming laptops as they did two years ago.

Let’s take look at what else is driving this growth.

Forget Soccer, eSports Will Be Biggest Sport

eSports was born on the PC and will remain players’ platform of choice. Nothing compares to the PC’s keyboard and mouse for mastering control of player versus player gaming, and it has further cemented its leadership in 2016 by attracting a new generation of PC gamers – the number of MOBA players increased to 100 million in 2016 from 70 million in 2015, according to DFC.

And like any sport, eSports is also building a passionate audience of spectators that rivals and surpasses some of the largest sports in the world. Casual and diehard fans alike tune in online or on TV to watch their favorite teams compete.

More fans watched the League of Legends finals than the NBA Finals. Remarkably, the global audience for eSports hit a record 323 million viewers in 2016, according New Zoo. One day eSports could be the largest spectator sport.

Fast paced, competitive multiplayer games are becoming much more graphically rich, and the top AAA titles released this year have delivered amazing realism, effects and storytelling.

Following the success of our Maxwell family, we delighted PC gamers this year with the release of our Pascal family, the 10-series. In fact over the past 5 years GeForce performance has increased by 10X.

These performance gains gave developers an open canvas to push the envelope, and they are taking advantage of it. Some of the most visually rich, physically accurate stories we’ve ever seen launched this year. Major hits including Battlefield 1, TitanFall2, The Division, now boast life-like details that easily rival Hollywood.

We see this trend continuing, as the graphics performance recommended by developers to play the top games released in 2016 increased dramatically. For example, the performance required for Call of Duty Black Ops in 2010 to Infinite Warfare in 2016 increased by 10x.

It’s no surprise, then, that the PC has become the pre-eminent publishing platform for AAA content. Over half of developers targeted the PC first in 2016, more than any other platform, according to the annual Game Developers Conference State of the Industry Survey. Last year, more than 3,500 PC games were released, bringing the total to well over 10,000, compared to 1,000 for current generation consoles.

Your Gaming System Will Eat Your Social Network

As the PC platform continues to grow, PC gaming community has grown with it. More than ever, PC gamers want to boast about their wins, share their gameplay and learn from each other. The past year saw a large increase in gamers sharing recorded video and live streams of their gameplay.

The amount of content available for gaming fans to enjoy has exploded, and gamers have taken advantage. In 2016 over 600 million users watched gaming video content globally with 2 trillion minutes of game content streamed.

To make game sharing easy and accessible for everyone, we released a complete update to GeForce Experience. With a single click gamers can record their game play for others to watch on demand, or stream it live to Twitch and YouTube.

Others are seeing this trend, too. Facebook recently launched a live service as a destination for streaming and viewing gameplay. We just announced that GeForce Experience will seamlessly connect directly to Facebook’s 1.8 billion monthly active users.

World’s First 4K G-SYNC HDR Monitors Will Shock You

A GeForce gaming PC is not complete without a great gaming monitor. This past year saw the release of exciting G-SYNC gaming monitors with features like 4K resolution, curved displays, and 120Hz frequency from virtually every monitor brand – and 2017 in following the same path.

At CES we just announced the newest addition to our G-SYNC monitors featuring the most advanced HDR panel ever created – enabling a wider and richer range of colors, with brighter whites, and deeper, darker blacks. These new gaming monitors join the 60 G-SYNC monitors and laptops on the market today.

Entering 2017 the PC gaming ecosystem is thriving. It’s open, innovative, and adaptable in ways no other platform can be. And the fundamentals driving its growth — advances in graphics, technology like VR and AR, and the ability to share digital content freely — are stronger than ever.