Have all the RGB lights and excessive gaming gear on your desktop left you longing for a simpler, more pixelated gaming experience? Govee's latest lighting products, its Gaming Pixel Light and Mini Panel Lights, offer the best (or potentially the worst) of both worlds. Its Pixel Light especially comes with a modern, spaceship-like aesthetic while containing all the faux LED pixels to remind you of the 8-bit era.
Govee's latest lighting product is explicitly targeted for gamers with its wide frame and decals. Although the Govee frame includes a 32 by 32-pixel count, it is—thanks to the innovative capabilities of the LEDs—capable of depicting images with a wider color palette than a traditional game of NES. It has more than 150 preset “scenes,” including a clock or weather display. The frame supports static images and GIFs up to 30 FPS, which you can create and edit through an app.
If you've ever seen Divoom's pixel art speakers and wall art, you're probably feeling deja vu. Divoom products, such as Timebox Evo and those who do not speak 64 by 64-pixel wall panels, include creating your own pixel art and animations and then setting them to music. What sets the Govee box apart is the sci-fi-aesthetic frame that may be more at home with some desktop setups than others. You can also use Govee's in-app AI to generate pixel art with a prompt, though it takes so little effort to create 32-by-32-pixel art that you might as well ignore the capabilities entirely of AI.
Even better, you can connect the frame to a Govee HDMI 2.1 Sync Box and the Govee app. This allows you to stream your games visuals onto the Gaming Pixel Light screen, displaying your detailed 3D games in a pseudo-2D pixel art fashion. Govee says its Gaming Pixel Light will also recognize music played through its speakers and change visuals based on the beat and rhythm of the music.
Govee says the Gaming Pixel Light will be available in Q2 this year.
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