Samsung's new gaming monitors include easy access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, Stadia, and more - The Verge

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Samsung is introducing 4 caller gaming monitors astatine Gamescom today, and they’re the archetypal Odyssey models to person Samsung’s Gaming Hub built in. This gaming hub provides speedy and casual entree to Xbox Cloud Gaming, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, and Nvidia GeForce Now crippled streaming services.

The Samsung Odyssey G70B and G65B are some designed chiefly for PC gaming, with the G70B disposable successful some 27- and 32-inch level IPS options with 4K enactment astatine 144Hz and 1ms gray-to-gray (GtG) effect times. The G65B is simply a curved show (1000R) with the aforesaid 1ms GtG effect times, and it’s disposable successful 27- and 32-inch sizes with 1440p enactment astatine 240Hz. Samsung doesn’t notation whether the G65B is IPS, VA, oregon TN, but fixed its past with curved panels astatine these sizes it’s apt VA.

Samsung’s Gaming Hub is built straight into each 4 of these models for speedy entree to crippled streaming services, but there’s besides a caller Game Bar instrumentality that lets PC gamers presumption gaming settings and modify effect times, surface ratios, and crippled modes easily.

You tin adjacent usage these monitors without a PC, acknowledgment to Samsung’s Smart Platform integration. Samsung lets G70B and G65B owners wirelessly link to PCs oregon Macs, reflector an iPhone oregon iPad surface utilizing Apple AirPlay 2, oregon adjacent usage Samsung DeX — 1 of the closest things we person to utilizing our phones arsenic PCs. Apps for Netflix and Amazon Prime tin besides tally consecutive connected the monitors if you conscionable privation to power disconnected from gaming oregon work.

Samsung hasn’t released afloat specs, merchandise dates, oregon pricing for the Odyssey G70B and G65B yet. These caller models “will beryllium disposable globally from Q4,” says Samsung.

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