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PokerStars VR is Something New

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Players can come together from all over the world in a virtual card room where avatars not only interact around the game but can dress to impress, socialise, entertain and chat as if in the same room Click To Tweet. At this point, it’s worth explaining a bit more about exactly what PokerStars VR is. Poker is about interaction.

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Baobab Studios Raises $25 Million in New Funding Round

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Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners. SEE ALSO Comcast, Samsung, and HTC Join $6 Million Investment in VR Animation Studio 'Baobab'.

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The Mage’s Tale Review: A VR Dungeon Crawl RPG 30 Years In The Making

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That adoration moved on to other series as time went on, but one game in particular that stood out to me in my youth was Wizardry 8 , released in 2001 when I was just 11 years old. The Mage’s Tale is available starting today, June 20th, exclusively for the Oculus Rift with Touch on Oculus Home for $39.99.

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‘Loading Human: Chapter 1’ Review: Forgettable Memories

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The wooden acting by all involved doesn’t help either — the AI computer voice Lucy is the most entertaining and it is an artificial one like you have heard on dozens of sci-fi shows. Yes, the AI Lucy was fun at times, but an artificial voice cracking jokes and referencing the classic film 2001 does not make a game.

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A Brief History of VR

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In 2001, SAS Cube created the first PC based cubic room that then led to the development of Virtools VR pack, a library pack add-on. It was also in 2010 that 18-year-old Palmer Luckey created the first prototype of Oculus Rift, the famous VR headset. Two years later, in 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR company for 2 billion USD.