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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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A traveling showcase of digital and video works, Björk Digital started in Australia and it just debuted at London’s Somerset house. Wires are a VR buzzkill, but the untethered VR headsets are powered by smartphones – which are graphics-processing lightweights compared to the robust PCs behind the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive.

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