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

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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. More than 130,000 unique viewers tuned into the IEM Oakland VR streams. The viewing experience could change as spectators wear VR headsets.

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Sixense Still Won’t Say When Kickstarter Backers Can Expect Their Rewards

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The purpose of the campaign was to raise money for the STEM System : a third-party hardware solution capable of providing positional tracking and hand controllers to virtual reality headsets. Today, these capabilities come standard in the three biggest, high-end VR platforms: Oculus Rift with Touch, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. And then what happens is, he has control, so they could use the opacity and then see in detail anatomy, like what is the approach the surgeon is following? Alan: Great.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. And then what happens is, he has control, so they could use the opacity and then see in detail anatomy, like what is the approach the surgeon is following? Alan: Great.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. And then what happens is, he has control, so they could use the opacity and then see in detail anatomy, like what is the approach the surgeon is following? Alan: Great.