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IBM Releases First Sword Art Online: The Beginning Screenshots

March 17, 2016 Matt Chelen Comments

While it has been confirmed that Sword Art Online: The Beginning is naught but a test of various IBM technologies, it is still interesting to see the lengths that they are going to for the test. Inside Games recently broke news of the first actual screenshots of Sword Art Online: The Beginning, which you can see embedded below. They were [...]

Sword Art Online: The Beginning May Be An Actual Sword Art Online VRMMORPG

February 22, 2016 Matt Chelen Comments

Bandai Namco Entertainment, IBM, and Kadokawa have teamed up to create something that we never expected to actually happen: a Sword Art Online VRMMORPG. The new VRMMORPG—called Sword Art Online: The Beginning—is powered by IBM's SoftLayer cloud service and IBM Watson, "a technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured [...]