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Gaming-Themed Atari Hotels Will Include VR And AR Entertainment

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Eight locations are set to open across the US, beginning later this year in Phoenix. Earlier today legendary video game company Atari announced that it is partnering with innovation and strategic agency GSD Group to develop a new chain of hotels centered entirely around both classic and modern gaming.

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HTC Launches Flagship Vive Store In China

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Whether it be the countries ambitious program to integrate VR education into all Chinese schools, or, more recently, the Jiangxi Province’s massive investment $460M in support for the AR/VR sector, its clear the booming nation sees both short, and long-term potential for virtual and augmented reality. Image Credit: HTC Vive / Alvin Wang.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.07): Meta roadmap unveiled, Xiaomi shows its AR glasses, and more!

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It should launch with 41 new titles specifically made for it, so we can assume that finally, we will see some big new games from the studios that Meta acquired. The first version of consumer AR glasses is slated for 2027, 4 years from now. And we are talking just about the first version, which most probably won’t become mainstream.

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VR & AR 2018: A Year In Review

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If 2016 was the birth of modern VR/AR technology, than 2018 was its elementary school graduation. Major hardware releases, vast improvements to software, and various other integral advancements have quietly solidified VR & AR as viable, long-term technological platforms for years to come. LOCATION-BASED VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.01 + 2023.11.08): Pico performs layoffs, Nimo announces AR glasses, and more!

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The use case is similar to other systems that are becoming popular now: give the user a big virtual display in front of him. This means that PCVR people can play the game again. Some journalists even talked about this game being the Half-Life: Alyx of standalone VR. Meta is investigating the topic. I particularly liked it.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.04): Varjo announces XR-4 headset, Quest 2 sells much more than Quest 3, and more!

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These sales data are a bit worrying for us developers in a way: if people keep buying the Quest 2 instead of Quest 3, the market shares of Quest 2 will be bigger, so many developers will be tempted to use Quest 2 as the main target headset , and so they won’t make their graphics richer to comply with the new horsepower of the Quest 3.

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Vive Studios & Vertigo Games Announce VR Card Battle Game ‘Skyworld: Kingdom Brawl’

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Vertigo Games, the studio behind Arizona Sunshine (2016) and Skyworld (2017), have teamed up with Vive Studios to create a new VR card-battler dubbed Skyworld: Kingdom Brawl. The studios say the game will be available on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows VR headsets, Vive Focus—with full cross-platform support—on April 2nd, 2019.

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