IBM announces Sword Art Online anime VR projectFebruary 23, 2016 - 14:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - IBM is using its Watson Cognitive Computing tech and SoftLayer cloud computing to fuse the virtual-reality, role-playing game centric anime Sword Art Online into a proper VR experience, Engadget reports. It's a massively multiplayer VR game and perhaps other details will clear themselves up come a Tokyo-based event running from March 18 to the 20. There, a 3D scanner will put people' likenesses into the game for use as an avatar. Right now, the anime's creator has said The Beginning will be "completely foreign" from any other video game experience, but that's about all there is to go on. The game will support both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, with next month's alpha test set to start with a paltry 208 testers from the Tokyo metro area. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |