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‘Ready Player One’ Book Sequel ‘Ready Player Two’ Arrives This November

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Ernest Cline returns with a follow-up to his 2011 sci-fi cult favorite. Exciting new for all you Ready Player fans. Penguin Random House imprint Ballantine Books today confirmed that a follow-up to Ernest Cline’s breakout hit Ready Player One will be arriving on store shelves this November. Famine, mass poverty, those sorts of things.

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Amazon to Begin Selling VR Apps Through New HTC Partnership

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Amazon will soon begin selling VR apps on its massive digital marketplace through a new partnership with HTC. The company’s partnership with Amazon will allow customers to buy Viveport apps directly on the Amazon marketplace. In addition, consumers will have a new way to discover and purchase titles on Amazon.

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‘Ready Player One’ Book Sequel Coming November 24th

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It’s already available for order on and available for pre-order on Amazon , both in Kindle and hardcover format. Released in 2011, Ready Player One casts a dim vision of the year 2044. Aptly named Ready Player Two , the upcoming book is being published by Penguin Random House subsidiary Ballantine Books.

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Bigscreen’s ‘VR Cinema’ Showing Interstellar, Star Trek, Transformers, & More This Month

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). Think of the service like renting a movie from Amazon, but you watch virtually in a public theater in the style of the movie. Star Trek Beyond (2016). Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). Interstellar (2014). January 17th to 24th. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). Ghost in the Shell (2017).

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Check Out These 2018 Black Friday VR Deals

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The bundle can be purchased as Amazon , Best Buy , GameStop , Newegg , Sam’s Club , Target , and Walmart. You can grab this bundle over at Amazon , Best Buy , GameStop , Newegg , Target , and Walmart. DOOM VFR BUNDLE ($199.99) : Pretty self-explanatory. Equip your Ancient Nord Longsword and grab this bundle now at GameStop or Target.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

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To give a bit of context, voice-based assistants have been around for over 60 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they picked up popular use with the introduction of smart home devices such as Google Home, and Amazon Echo. “It’s in 2011, defeating the champions and winning the prize of $1M.

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Kitely doubles region performance, keeps prices the same

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The company has achieved this by adopting the latest Amazon server technology, the M7i generation , while maintaining its existing pricing structure. The company’s servers are hosted in an Amazon Web Services data center in California, which offers high-speed connectivity to the Internet.