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This Microsoft Flight Simulator video highlights 40 years of PC gaming changes

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Microsoft kicked off its virtual Ignite conference today with a look back at how Microsoft Flight Simulator has changed since its introduction in 1982. map out the real world into a virtual one. Microsoft’s video begins with Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 , which was originally released in 1982 for IBM-compatible PCs.

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Video game history is colliding: Sierra founders are bringing a seminal text adventure game to VR

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Ken and Roberta Williams, two of the most influential figures in video game history, are bringing the original 1976 text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure to virtual reality, as well as Mac and Windows PC. Roberta and Ken Williams, founders of Sierra and influential game designers | Photo by John Storey/Getty Images.

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23 video games debuting this year with ties to the Pacific Northwest

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Colossal Cave 3D After a couple of delays, Ken and Roberta Williams’ update of the classic text adventure Colossal Cave arrived on Jan. 19, as both a virtual-reality adventure on the Meta Quest 2, and a 2D first-person game that’s available on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, and Epic. Created in Portland, Ore.

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More on OnLive: New Cloud Solution Delivers Secure Cross-Platform Deployment for Graphics Intensive Applications

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The OnLive® CloudLift Enterprise service offers businesses the ability to stream latency-sensitive Graphics Intensive Applications (GIAs), such as high-definition interactive demos, simulations and 3D programs, from the cloud to virtually any device instantly, with unparalleled control, security and support. About OnLive.

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CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

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Dr.Tail Photo) Dr.Tail Seattle-based Dr.Tail provides vet consultations and comprehensive medical record management via a virtual platform. HaptX’s Gloves G1 System enables natural interaction and true-contact haptics in virtual reality and robotics at enterprise scale. Online pet consultation via Dr.Tail. Bellevue, Wash.

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How Endeavor One used an expert swordsman and dogs to create VR game ‘Arashi: Castles of Sin’

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Endeavor One has been active in virtual, mixed, and augmented reality spaces for the last seven years. Its past projects include collaborations like Halo: Recruit for Windows Mixed Reality and Dome of the Dead, a 2019 4-player cooperative shooter for Vulcan’s HoloDome. Doyle has been an artist in the video game industry since 2002.

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Nreal Light review: Hardware is only half the battle

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That could include a flat screen that always stays in the center of your vision, a grid of icons pinned to a specific point in space, or a 3D game board resting on a physical desk. On the other hand, Nreal Light projections look much less convincingly 3D than HoloLens or Magic Leap images.