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Knowing Your Rs: SR, VR, AR and MXR
With the return of VR onto the scene, we’ve begun to cover the subject on the blog recently as “VR Arcades” and other out-of-home applications of the technology find their way into amusement. The
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Three New VR Arcade Locations: Immersion Arcade & Ivirtex (IL); VR Junkies (UT)
News tip via Now that HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are out there, a few businesses are quickly jumping onto the bandwagon. So far everyone is going for the HTC solution as Oculus shot
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New Games Spotted At The IAAPA Asian Attractions Expo
Recently the IAAPA organization held the Asian Attractions Expo 2016 event in Shanghai, China and we’ve received a little bit of info about some new arcade content shown there. The event saw record breaking
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Newsbytes: VR Arcade Talk + VR 4DX; Spiderman Pinball Color; PIUP2
Happy weekend everyone. Today’s weekend post is a bit heavy on the VR application in the arcade space. BBC – Could VR Bring Back The Games Arcade? : Developing technology is always part of
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Vidcast: Interview with Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report & DNA Association
Long time readers of the site are familiar with The Stinger Report, a long-running amusement/out-of-home entertainment industry newsletter and the earliest of outside contributors to Arcade Heroes. That newsletter was founded in 1994 by
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Zero Latency & Sega Japan Team Up On VR
Brought to you by This year the news has been increasingly dominated by VR and related amusement/arcade applications for the technology to be found in out-of-home entertainment. Not long ago it was announced that
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New Locations: Ctrl+V; Pixel Blast Arcade; Boxcar Bar+Arcade; Game Nest
What better way to start the month of June and our Summer with news on upcoming or new arcade locations! Today’s Latest Arcade Locations Ctrl+V VR Arcade Opens Today In Waterloo, Ontario (thanks to Kevin
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VR Arcade News: Sega Joypolis To Test PlayStation VR; VRCade Joins With Smartlaunch
While I was going to combine this news with the weekend newsbytes, it turned out that there was enough on this segment that we could a separate post. Sega To Showcase PlayStation VR At
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The Void Bringing Ghostbusters:Dimensions to Out-Of-Home VR
(Thanks to everyone that sent this in) Here’s a story that is spreading like wildfire across the internet, which seems to be the case with anything VR related lately. As I’ve told people, don’t
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Meleap’s AR Technology ‘Hado’ Expanding Into The Arcade Space
A lot of the chatter regarding new technology has been centered around VR (Virtual Reality) but it is hardly the only new tech that is looking to change the way we entertain ourselves. In
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Newsbytes: AH Podcast; Skycurser; Retro Arcade Japan; Project Arena & More
The end of April is approaching (already?) and it’s been an interesting month for news so far. Here’s a round-up of some arcade items that you might like: Arcade Heroes Podcast #13 – Our
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Bandai Namco Opens VR Zone Project iCan In Japan For Six Months
(Thanks to Kevin Williams for the tip) It was reported a short time ago that Bandai Namco was launching a new but temporary VR-arcade style facility in Japan by the name of VR ZONE
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