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‘Ready Player One’ Book Sequel ‘Ready Player Two’ Arrives This November

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Ernest Cline returns with a follow-up to his 2011 sci-fi cult favorite. Exciting new for all you Ready Player fans. Penguin Random House imprint Ballantine Books today confirmed that a follow-up to Ernest Cline’s breakout hit Ready Player One will be arriving on store shelves this November. Famine, mass poverty, those sorts of things.

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The 5 Best Games for PlayStation VR

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Move controller required]. Sci-fi shooter Farpoint was the debut game to launch with the PSVR Aim controller—an optional, first-party VR gun peripheral—so it’s no surprise that the game plays best with it. Farpoint technically supports the PS4 gamepad, but we highly recommend the PSVR Aim controller for the best experience.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

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This will include query based voice interactions for a new level of digital agency, and even the ability to interact with and control digital environments through conversation. This type of game-play will also change as audio plays a larger role in game controls. in 2011, defeating the champions and winning the prize of $1M.

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‘Skyrim VR’ Review – The Other Side of the Immersion Equation

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Amazon [Physical]. Note: Prior to this review, I’d only played the original version Skyrim for a few hours around the time of its 2011 launch. Bethesda has retooled the game’s combat controls to work with the PS Move motion controllers. Skyrim VR Details: Official Site. PlayStation Store [Digital].

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SDCC 2017: Comic-Con’s VR Con Is Still A Work-In-Progress

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Hotels are taken over by large companies like Netflix and Amazon, large courtyards are converted to a series of exhibits. debuted the long-awaited first trailer for the Steven Spielberg-directed Ready Player One film based on the 2011 Ernest Cline novel by the same name.

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Check Out These 2018 Black Friday VR Deals

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PSVR RISE TO GLORY & SUPERHOT VR BUNDLE ($249.99) : Normally $349.99, the “Rise To Glory and SUPERHOT VR” bundle includes the HMD, Playstation Camera, and two Move controllers, along with a copy of boxing simulator Creed: Rise to Glory , as well as the uber popular time manipulation title, SUPERHOT VR. Available exclusively at Vive.com.

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Magic Leap Could be a Great Strategic Acquisition

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Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Some parts of the gesture tracking may have made it into Microsoft new AR device, HoloLens.