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Samsung is doubling down on cloud gaming by adding its Samsung Gaming Hub to its OLED 4K TV and freestyle televisions.
Announced at CES 2023, the S95C Samsung OLED 4K TV comes with the Gaming Hub, which will have more than 1,000 games starting next spring. The TV combines the latest quantum dot and OLED
technologies.
The individually lit pixels of Samsung OLED are not hindered by the TFT layer, increasing brightness and color accuracy. Samsung’s specially designed Neural Quantum Processor 4K enables Samsung OLED to deliver unparalleled clarity, vibrant color mapping and smart 4K upscaling with AI detail restoration. (LG also adds a lot of AI to its TVs).
The TVs are aimed at gaming and have a response time of 0.1 millisecond and a refresh rate of up to 144 Hz. S95C eliminates ghosting – an artifact where the screen blurs when images fade instead of disappearing completely – and offers calibration and visualization options.
The S95C’s cloud gaming support with Gaming Hub provides 4K support for Nvidia GeForce Now cloud gaming and can also access cloud gaming on Microsoft Xbox, Utomik, and Amazon Luna. The TVs are less than an inch thick and they feature 70W 4.2.2 channel Dolby Atmos flagship speakers.
The Freestyle model also comes with the Samsung Gaming Hub and is designed as a smart TV platform with a portable and interactive entertainment device. Designed to blend in with homes, offices and art galleries, the Freestyle has also been redesigned to address new use cases, including real-world metaverse applications.
By extending the visual canvas across large or multiple walls, the new Edge Blending technology enables two Freestyles to synchronize their projections into one ultra-wide, immersive screen. Samsung-patented Edge Blending technology automatically keystones and adjusts the picture for an even more immersive cinema experience.
Samsung also showed off a 76-inch Micro LED CX TV at the top end of its product line. And the Samsung Neo QLED 8K has 8K picture quality using Quantum Matrix technology, delivering 4000 nit brightness with 14-bit contrast. And the 2023 Neo QLED 4K TVs will use deep learning AI to analyze content to convert all content into brighter, clearer and more vibrant HDR – even if the source material is SDR.
And Samsung has more than 2,500 pieces curated by galleries in its art store. The second version of the art store will provide a better experience, as well as NFT marketplaces featuring art from over 1,000 artists.
Samsung said it will have a new in-home health monitoring technology on its TVs for the first time. Samsung’s camera analytics measures five key vital signs: heart rate, heart rate variability, respiration rate,
oxygen saturation and stress index – all from your couch. It does this by using remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), an intelligent computer vision technology that assesses vital signs by detecting changes in facial skin color caused by heartbeats. The system is opt-in, contactless, accurate and user-friendly. To go with that, it also has a telemedicine feature.
And Samsung’s Chat Together is a TV-embedded platform that enables real-time communication while watching live TV. It allows you to communicate with people away from home easily and in real time. In addition, the mobile app, available on both Android and iOS, allows users to quickly respond on both TV and mobile platforms using a single interface. The whole connection process is done simply by downloading the mobile app and tapping the BLE popup.
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