In partnership with compatriot Nexon, Samsung will unveil at Gamescom “ The First Descendant “, the first game in the world specifically designed to showcase the Korean giant’s HDR10+ Gaming standard.
Announced at the end of 2021, the HDR10+ Gaming standard is, with HDR10+ Adaptive, a sub-genre of the HDR10+ standard carried by Samsung for several years. Royalty-free, the latter can be used free of charge by manufacturers of monitors and televisions, unlike the competing Dolby Vision standard.
A PC game whose beta is expected in September
Anyway, it was to promote its HDR10+ Gaming that Samsung announced the upcoming launch of ” The First Descendant », the first game developed specifically to showcase this HDR standard. As reported The Verge, the title is a third-person shooter and will be offered in free-to-play. Compatible with NVIDIA’s DLSS 3.0 technology, it will be available in beta from September 19.
As a reminder, the HDR10+ Gaming standard has not yet been adopted by Sony and Microsoft for their respective consoles. Samsung’s game should therefore, logically, focus on the PC market. NVIDIA has indeed supported HDR10+ Gaming since November 2022 on its GeForce RTX and GeForce GTX 16xx.
HDR10+ Gaming, what for?
The main benefit of HDR10+ Gaming is allowing games to automatically calibrate their brightness and colors to what a monitor or TV can natively support. In theory, and as pointed out The Vergethe standard of Samsung therefore allows to improve the details in shadow areas as well as in bright environments, while obtaining a more accurate reproduction of colors.
The process further automates what usually has to go through manual calibration. We also know that HDR10+ Gaming supports VRR and allows very low latency.
To take advantage of it, however, you must have a PC equipped with a compatible graphics card, but also have a compatible monitor or television. Unfortunately, the latter are not yet very widespread… at least not as much as the models supporting the competing Dolby Vision standard.
Source : The Verge
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