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The Future of Play: How Intel And The ESL Are Helping Bring Virtual Reality To ESports

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IEM Season 12 will kick off its year-long tournament tour schedule on May 6 in Sydney, Australia. The VR stream featured a 200% growth in peak concurrent viewers compared to IEM’s first virtual reality live stream in Oakland, with 340,000 total unique viewers tuning into the VR broadcast. ESL and Intel partnered with Sliver.tv

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved. INVESTMENTS AND VR FUNDING ROUNDUP.

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