PLAY THE FUTURE with GeForce GTX

Had a chance to attend NVIDIA's private gaming party event, Play The Future with GeForce GTX on the 11 Dec at Crowne Plaza Changi Airport. It was held at level 1, Chengal 2.

Hi food! 

Reached there just in time, as the event was supposed to start at 6pm with dinner allocated till 7pm. We were given a private pass and a t-shirt for this event. Had dinner first while waiting for them to allocate rooms for us to try out the VR. There were only 3 station, and two of it was in each room, designed to give us the space to experience VR to the fullest.

The room where the one of the station was held. 

I got my chance to try out two different station since out of the three, two station had the same games to try out. The first station that I tried out had three games on VR for us to test, however, no photos of the games itself allowed as the games just looked normal on computer screen anyways.

The first game was The Blue, the setting of the game is underwater, on a shipwreck. The objective was for us to touch the fish and also the big whale. I was terrified, for I have never stood so close looking at the eyes of a whale, and secondly, it was all so real that was trying not to stare at the whale too long. Of course, my main fear was the tail of that big whale, it was racing in my mind "OMG OMG OMG, will the tail hit me in the face?". Probably those who were in the room were laughing at my silly actions. Trust me, I looked silly as it was just 2D on computer screen but it was all sooooooo real with VR.

The second game is Cool draw, or something, can't remember as it was not that scary. Actually that game is pretty cool as you can change the canvas to something that you like, it can be starry night, or space. You can be as creative as you want, walking into your drawings , enjoying what you can create. Basically it is a safe environment of your own world~~

The last game for the first station is to fix the robots, basically you are the so-call "mechanics". This game allowed you to test the remote to pull, turn and push. Pretty interesting as you can feel the remote's vibration in every movement. Wells, it was still scary for me, for I was afraid that the bits and pieces of the parts will fall onto me. And from what I know, no one managed to find the faulty part of that machine that we were supposed to work on. 30 seconds was given for each player to find the faulty part, dang! I failed and suddenly the floor decided to open and dumped out the poor robot. That was my ultimate fear! To fall off the room and i tried to moved myself as far from that portal as possible *sweats*. Poor staff had to pacify me that it was okay, I'm still on ground floor, I'm not going to fall off. But it was so real that I cannot contain my own fear T_T.

After experiencing the VR in the first station, I was as shaken as a little lamb. This is how future gaming would be like, experiencing each game at its fullest, real-life experience. If CS were to be set in VR, I would wonder if each player gets to feel the pain of each bullet if they get shoot in the game :p. hahaha But I would love to experience games like the second game, Cool Draw (or something), where I can glaze into the lovely skyline while enjoying my own creation.

Taking shoot of the station while someone else was trying out. 

The second station was just a sit down setting with a few games for us to choose, and a time-frame of 5 minutes each player. I got the chance to try out two games and it was fun to be able to look into the game 360 degrees with the Oculus glasses. Tried out a sword battle and a machine battle game, wells I suck in the machine battle because I'm not used to game controllers. The overall experience was fun but not as fun as the first station.

One of their staff, Sharone trying out the games after everyone was done. :p 

The overall experience with Nvidia was truly amazing and wells, in the near future with VR introduced to the market, I can turn one of my rooms into a gaming room. Soon Soon, as a part of my wishlist.

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Meet and Greet Session with Hugo

Credits: Mi Community Singapore

Xiaomi Singapore was nice enough to invite 20 lucky fans who had purchased Mi 4i on the first sales of the set in Singapore to have a meet and greet session with Mr. Hugo Barra, VP of Xiaomi Global, today!  ^_^ And I am one of the lucky fans to meet him, once again (hehe).

Even though the session was short, but I am glad that Xiaomi Singapore had this planned out from his busy schedule. Each of us took our parcel from him personally and had photos taken, either with my camera or their own phones (snap snap at the back).  And he personally signed on the parcels! 

Some of the lucky fans!

Hahaha ... I think most of us went further to get him to sign on the phone box itself and some other random stuffs (guilty charged).

Say hi to the handsome Hugo, and no. I'm not a stalker xD 

Got him to sign on my Mi 4 phone case and Ian's Mi 4i box. :p Crazy people

What's a meet and greet session without a group wefie?!

Credits: Mi Community

After the session with Mr Hugo Barra, we had a mini Q&A session where Mr Louis Shue, Product Manager of Xiaomi Singapore, shared with us some tips on MIUI 6 and Mi 4i. Since the launch of MIUI 6 stable ROM in Singapore, there are many users who are not used to the new interface and shortcuts/features that are available with MIUI 6.

Getting everyone to try out each feature as he goes through them.

Even though it was a short session, but it was indeed an wonderful session with Mr Hugo and Mr Louis. Thank you for such experience, looking forward to more events host by Xiaomi Singapore (still feeling happy). 

Xiaomi's Redmi Launch in Singapore today!

Source: Xiaomi

On most technology news platform and Singapore news, they have already announced that Xiaomi is officially venturing to South-East Asia and Singapore is their first stop. *hooray* And their official launch of their first model that is brought into the market, Redmi, launched today @ 12noon.

Like many others, I've got my brothers to station in front of their computers so that either one of us can get Redmi. Why do we even need to wait? Xiaomi phones are selling hotcakes in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong! We believe that it would be the same situation here too. 

So why do that situation even happen? 

Redmi only cost S$169 without contract and being a typical Singaporean, I don't really fancy getting tied down with a contract. Plus, since a few years ago, all new plans and recontract plans have a small cap for data plan. For price range less than $100, you get only 2-4GB usage of data. T_T 

Source: XiaomiSG FB

I am still on the 3G platform with a full 12GB worth of data to use, since I have yet to recontract, I am not ready to give up this. Also, to recontract and get a phone with that price worth, you will not get a phone that has the following specs: 

All photos taken from Xiaomi.  With all these details, it was enough to convinced many people and me that Xiaomi has the skills to produce phones with quality and sell at a reasonable price. S$169 can't even get me other brands with specs at this level with contract.

More on the specs of the phone ---- Specs. Even personal friends are all excited about the launch of Redmi. 

So as 12noon strikes, everyone tried to order Redmi online, that is the only platform for today. However, many of us ran into problems ordering, even my brothers too. Warning given was: 

Order Creation Error

Personal friends also got the same error, as fans who desperately wants the phone, I tried on my side too. I didn't manage to secure the bundle pack:

Source: XiaomiSG FB

But I've managed to purchase one REDMI!!! *dance for joy* I managed to get through the error at 12:06 and made payment at 12:07. After that this was shown in screen:

Source: Xiaomi

Within 8 minutes, Redmi was sold out. It was drastic for many fans who didn't get the phone, but I believe that there will be a next batch for sale. I am looking forward to receive my phone from DHL ~~~

What's up next to queue for?

Source: XiaomiSG FB

Mi3 will be released on March 7th, do look for more information on their Facebook and join MIUI English Forum.