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Gaming-Themed Atari Hotels Will Include VR And AR Entertainment

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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. Eight locations are set to open across the US, beginning later this year in Phoenix. Feature Image Credit: Atari Inc.

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100+ AR/VR Companies to Gather at Next Week’s SVVR 2017 Expo – Save $200

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As VR’s biggest industry event, this year’s event represents the most diverse group of companies from around the world ever to attend the conference. Next week’s Silicon Valley VR Expo 2017 is set to bring together the core of the VR industry from Silicon Valley and beyond.

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XR Chipmaker GravityXR Completes pre-A Fundraiser

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Investors such as Gaorong Capital, Sequoia Capital, Jinshajiang Venture Capital, and IDG led the funding round along with Lenovo Capital & Incubator Group. Funding raised in the pre-A round will secure research and development (R&D), market expansion, and talent recruitment, among others.

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Intel Sells SSD Business to SK hynix as new Subsidiary Solidigm

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The standalone subsidiary, whose name is apparently a play on “paradigm” and “solid state storage” has setup shop in San Jose, and is being run by former Intel Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group SVP and GM, Rob Crooke.

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Harmonix Announces Surprise, Gear VR, Social Karaoke Game ‘SingSpace’

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SingSpace was a surprise addition to the demo room of the Oculus Connect 3 virtual reality convention in San Jose. Currently, up to four friends can gather together to sing a song as a group or watch one of their compatriots stumble his way hilariously through the routine.

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Google Bringing WebVR Support to Android Chrome in JanuaryWebVR.

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Just a few weeks ago, major forces collaborating on the WebVR Spec gathered in San Jose, CA for the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality, a two-day conference where the likes of Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Oculus, The Khronos Group, and many more hashed out the latest developments and directions for the WebVR ecosystem.

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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

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Plus I question how you can have realistic group calls with this: it’s just impossible, it is made for 1-on-1 meetings. Having the sense of depth is cool, but it is not worth having this huge booth, while to use Zoom I can use my smartphone from everywhere.

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