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Engadget’s 11th Annual People’s Choice Award Goes to Razer Blade

The votes for the 11th Annual Engadget People's Choice Awards have been tallied and the winners are in. Not surprisingly, the Razer Blade took home “Best Laptop:” http://www.engadget.com/gallery/11th-annual-engadget-awards-peoples-choice-winners/3405641/#slide=3405641||.

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Leap Motion will come embedded in Razer’s new OSVR headsets

The company announced a new partnership with Razer that will put Leap Motion's motion-tracking capabilities directly in the OSVR headset when it ships later this year. When Razer's Hacker Development Kit (HDK) headset for OSVR becomes available later in 2015, developers will have the option of buying a faceplate that has Leap Motion's gesture-tracking hardware […]

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A Billion Dollar Startup: Gear for Serious Gamers

The Wall Street Journal recently profiled Razer. Subscribers can click here to read the full story: http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-billion-dollar-startup-gear-for-serious-gamers-1424917907.

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The New Razer Blade Might Be The Gaming Laptop We’ve Been Waiting For

Wouldn't it be nice if you could have it all: A thin, attractive laptop powerful enough to play any game you throw at it? Razer's Blade laptops keep narrowly missing the mark—but this time may be different. Read why at http://gizmodo.com/the-new-razer-blade-might-be-the-gaming-laptop-weve-bee-1683388000.

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Razer CEO on Real World Applications and Future of OSVR

Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan discusses his long term plans for OSVR and it's real world applications with WSJ's Joanna Stern at the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show. Click here to watch the interview.

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The ‘Android Of Virtual Reality’ Is Here, And It Could Be Exactly What Virtual Reality Needs

When Google acquired Android back in 2005, Android quickly became the “open” mobile platform of choice, a haven for developers that didn't like all of Apple's rules and the walled garden of iOS. Today, Android is the largest mobile operating system in the world, in both worldwide market share and sales, and smartphones and apps would not be […]

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Best of CES: Forge TV

The Razer Forge TV was selected by Engadget as the “Best Gaming” devicer at CES 2015. Watch their video here to find out why. 

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CES 2015: Razer supports VR and big-screen video games

USA TODAY's Mike Snider interviews Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan and talks about the Forge TV, a high-performance Android TV micro-console that brings Android games from the Google Play store and hard-core PC gaming to the living room. To watch the interview and read the story, click here.  

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Here’s the $200 Competitor Oculus Should Worry About

magine a world in which virtual reality standards weren’t dominated by mega-billions corporations with sometimes controversial agendas. It’s not the world we live in, but PC peripheral-maker Razer wants us nudge us in that direction with something it’s dubbed OSVR, or open-source virtual reality. On paper, OSVR is just what it sounds like: an idea for […]

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Razer’s Open-Source Virtual Reality Platform is Hacker Friendly

It seems like everyone attending the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is lining up to try out virtual reality devices. At the forefront of the field's development is Razer's new open-source virtual reality (OSVR) platform. Razer OSVR is an attempt to standardize hardware and software components of virtual reality. That means that more […]

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