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Full Steam ahead for A MAZE. / Berlin 2024

Berlin’s annual International Games and Playful-Media Festival, A Maze, once again showcased a diverse array of experiences, alternative gaming solutions, and experimental platform exchanges. The festival expanded its program and locations throughout the city, including virtual spaces. Notably
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Virtual Reality Realities at GDC 2024

GDC 2024 allocated an entire day to discuss the current state and future development of VR Gaming at the Future Realities Summit in San Francisco. Despite its status as a niche within the broader gaming market, the significance of VR gaming may escalate due to the pressing need for innovation amidst
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Autoplay with Game AI at GDC 2024

Amidst the ongoing excitement surrounding AI, the Game Developers Conference 2024 once again provided valuable insights into this rapidly evolving field of technological innovation. Within the realm of AI, the game industry stands out as an area of particular interest, having utilized machine learni
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XR-Trends and AI-Friends at GTC 2024

Nvidia‘s annual tech conference, GTC, showcased the latest developments in the company’s hardware portfolio, as well as its achievements in AI and collaboration efforts with immersive technologies in the enterprise sector. Driven by the demands of AI, this year’s hardware presentat
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Scaling the XR-Space with Apple Vision Pro

Apple’s long-awaited entry into the XR space with the newly released Apple Vision Pro headset marks a significant milestone for the immersive industries. In terms of awareness, the engagement of the tech giant in the headset industry mirrors its previously successful roll-outs of smartphones f
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The right mix of Games Ground Berlin 2023

Berlin welcomes a new gaming festival, marking a resurgence of gaming festivities on both professional and public fronts. In contrast to the more business-oriented Quo Vadis conferences in the Millennium decade and the public celebration-oriented Games Week pre-pandemic, Games Ground Berlin now comb
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Double-Deal Making at IFA 2023

IFA 2023 returned as a full-fledged in-person event, and visitor numbers could even match pre-pandemic standards. The transition from digital and hybrid events over the last three years was quite abrupt. Not even a keynote was live-streamed anymore; the entire program was centered around the fairgro
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Gamescom 2023 prefers to go flat

Gamescom 2023, Germany’s annual gaming event, grappled with a series of contradictions on multiple fronts. It spotlighted the disparity between Germany being one of the world’s largest gaming consumer markets and the comparatively modest economic impact of the German game industry. This
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Devcom 2023 walks the Line

The annual game developer conference Devcom kicked off this year’s Gamescom with a two-day event featuring conferences, an expo site, and social gatherings for the gaming industry. The hybrid format encompassed live-streamed lectures and provided virtual meeting slots on the event platform The
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VR is stepping up at SIGGRAPH 2023

The 50th edition of the annual SIGGRAPH show took place in Los Angeles. Alongside the usual theme tracks on computer graphics, visual computing, immersion, and media automation, this year’s event commemorated five decades of CGI history. A timeline showcasing the developments in visual computi
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