Add some nostalgia to your desk with these customizable Pixel Art lights

Have all the RGB lights and overwhelming gaming gear on your desktop made you long for a simpler, pixelated gaming experience? Govee’s latest lighting products, its Gaming Pixel Light and Mini Panel Lights, offer the best (or potentially worst) of both worlds. Its Pixel Light comes in particular with a modern aesthetic, like a spaceship, while it contains all the fake LED pixels to remind you of the 8-bit era.

Govee’s latest lighting product is explicitly tuned for gamers with its wide frame and decals. Although Govee’s frame includes a count of 32 by 32 pixels, it is – thanks to the modern capacity of LEDs – able to represent images with a much more varied color palette than a traditional NES game could ever. It has more than 150 preset “scenes”, including a clock or a weather display. The frame supports still images and GIFs up to 30 FPS, which you can create and edit through an app.

If you’ve ever seen Divoom’s slate of pixel art speakers and wall art, you’re probably feeling deja vu. Divoom products, such as the Timebox Evo and the non-speaker 64 by 64 pixel wall panel, 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 framework 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, although it takes so little effort to create 32-by-32-pixel art that you might as well ignore the AI ​​capabilities entirely.

Better yet, you can connect the frame to a Govee HDMI 2.1 Sync Box and the Govee app. This allows you to transmit your on-screen gaming visuals to the Gaming Pixel Light, which displays your detailed 3D gameplay in a pseudo-2D pixel art fashion. Govee said its Gaming Pixel Light will also recognize the music played through its speakers and change the image based on the tempo and rhythm of the music.

Govee said the Gaming Pixel Light will be available sometime in Q2 this year.

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