Nvidia had a huge keynote at CES 2017, making a number of exciting announcements covering three main areas: artificial intelligence (A.I.), autonomous cars, and video games.

The company has unveiled a new GeForce Now service, 4K Shield TV, Nvidia BB8 autonomous car, a Shield media device, a Shield peripheral called Nvidia Spot, and more.

During the CES 2017 keynote in Las Vegas, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made a lengthy presentation to set out the future of gaming, TV, and transportation.

Nvidia has unveiled a new cloud service, which is called as GeForce Now that will be enabling games to run in the cloud rather than locally on a computer. This cloud-based service can turn any regular PC into a powerful Nvidia Pascal gaming rig.

Also, it will let gamers to play the latest PC games without having to build their own PC rigs. With the latest GeForce Now, users can now access high-end PC games with the latest graphics even on low-end PCs or Macs.

"It's a simple way for new players who may not have access to a high-performance GeForce GTX gaming rig to experience great PC gaming," says Nvidia in the official blogpost. "It connects gamers to GeForce GTX 1080 PCs in the cloud, renders games with the latest NVIDIA GameWorks visual technology and streams them in high definition to PCs and Macs."

Nvidia's new GeForce Now service will run games through a gaming distribution service such as Steam. It will be allowing gamers to start playing just as they normally would without having to download massive files.

Moreover, the game will be constantly updated to the latest version on Nvidia's servers, which means that gamers will not have to download and update the software themselves, reports TechTimes.

Along with this Nvidia has revealed the 4K Shield TV, Nvidia BB8 autonomous car, Shield peripheral called Nvidia Spot and more. Spot is the small peripheral to be used to communicate with Google Assistant via the Nvidia Shield TV.

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