Does what happens in the rec room stay in the rec room?
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Soon she was in Rec Room several nights a week.
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Then they broke the news to their Rec Room friends.
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I played Luna, Space Pirate Trainer, Superhot and Rec Room.
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Rec Room opened in an empty warehouse in April 20133.
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Instead, Mark ended up taking some time away from Rec Room.
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Against Gravity, maker of the VR hit 'Rec Room,' nabs $24M
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On the lower level is a rec room with a bar.
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Semi-underground and brightly lit, it's less lair than rec room.
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There is also a rec room, currently holding a pool table.
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Priscilla and Mark, surrounded by friends during their Rec Room wedding ceremony.
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The walkout lower level has a large rec room and a gym.
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You can play mini games in "Rec Room" but you don't have to.
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The partially finished basement includes a concrete-floored rec room with a fireplace.
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Some played pool, or joined a tai chi session in the rec room.
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The basement rec room has walls of painted brick and a working fireplace.
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After he got an HTC Vive headset for Christmas, Rec Room changed all that.
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I demoed Superhot VR, Rec Room, Arizona Sunshine and a few other familiar titles.
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A half bathroom with a washer and dryer is off the basement rec room.
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Next, I plugged my monitors into the basement rec room of a friend's brownstone.
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As a child, I broke it while playing in the rec room with my cousin.
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Unlike most VR games, you don't need to really do anything inside of Rec Room.
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She went back to their staging location in the rec room of some dedicated supporters.
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The heart of the building is the rec room, where residents gather to play pool.
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Rec Room is also about to surpass one million rooms created by users on the platform.
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The basement has a rec room and a wine cellar that was originally the coal bin.
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A stack of stale donuts nods to Brancusi's column, amidst the scene of an overstuffed rec room.
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"The kids are in the rec room or I'm down there grabbing bottles of wine," he said.
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The peas-and-carrots color scheme and rec-room paneling suggest a tongue-in-cheek hipster irony.
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The basement has an office, a workshop and a rec room with a fireplace and pool table.
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The lights are permanently on dim and the midcentury rec-room décor is the definition of cozy.
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The partners' third bar, named Rec Room, is a seven-minute drive from Railgarten, on Broad Avenue.
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Before there was Steely Dan, there were the giddy rec-room experiments of two Bard College undergraduates.
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The Seattle startup, which was founded in 2016, now has 35 employees building out and maintaining Rec Room.
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Caption: The largest of Olympus Town's domes contains a common room that doubles as rec room and cafeteria.
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These elements would come together monumentally on August 11, 1973 in the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue.
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The "MVP Room" is a new element that is reminiscent of a rec room attached to a bar.
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Across the street, the Gale Hotel's Rec Room fits a house party vibe between its vinyl-lined walls.
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It was intended to be a family or rec room, and has a glass wall facing the yard.
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Across the street, The Gale Hotel's Rec Room fits a house party vibe between its vinyl-lined walls.
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Rec Room itself isn't really a game; it's more like a virtual clubhouse built around social activities, like paintball.
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This included a whole building, containing a kitchen, a rec room, a bathroom, a dining hall, and an office.
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Here in Rec Room, a popular virtual-reality platform, users are represented by avatars that don't have all their parts.
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The bi-level restaurant looks like a tongue-in-cheek throwback to the rec room in your best friend's basement.
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The March for Our Lives team began Election Day in their "war room" in the rec room of a gated community.
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Against Gravity, which makes the popular social game Rec Room, raised $5 million from Sequoia Capital and First Round last year.
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Inside, the wood paneling, tropical print wallpaper and glass bricks give the place a 1980s-meets-midcentury-modern-rec-room vibe.
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The six-man cast of "Freestyle" is too laid-back for that; the vibe is more rec room than star chamber.
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As time passed, the group's closeness spilled over the edges of VR. Regulars congregated in other online spaces, from a Rec Room–devoted subreddit to a dedicated area of the chat platform Discord; many of them followed one another on Instagram using Rec Room–specific accounts, some of which show only avatars, never the shy, real people behind them.
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We really want to make sure Rec Room is a great community for people from all walks of life," says Nick Fajt, the CEO and co-founder of Seattle-based Against Gravity, the developer of Rec Room, during a subsequent meeting we had in VR. "We've found that social VR is something of a double-edged sword.
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After the summer ended, Mark started spending more time in Rec Room, and his and Priscilla's conversations took on a different tenor.
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We couldn't join her on the island, but we could at least pretend it was karaoke night in the Latitude rec room.
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With that in mind, Ben-Veniste told Blitzer that there was a big fish mounted on the wall of his rec room.
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It's the beat before the harmonica comes in on "Love Me Do." It's Kool Herc in the rec room at Sedgewick Ave.
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Stacked in neat boxes from the floor to the ceiling, exactly 1,080 plastic figurines fill the rec room in Jack's California home.
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Saturday, a crew of white supremacist gang members descended on the Rec Room Bar & Grill, a normally relaxed bar in Lynnwood, Wash.
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The partially finished walkout basement includes a one-car garage reached by a driveway, a rec room and a laundry/mechanical room.
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One homeowner on Tidying Up had a collection of Christmas decorations so vast it had turned her rec room into a storage unit.
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These items are spread throughout his basement adorning shelves and walls in his downstairs guest bedroom, library, rec room and pool table room.
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Upstairs was all elegant blond wood, but downstairs reeked of a cheap rec-room, with pizza, doughnuts and tater tots competing for airspace.
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The Georgetown store has a rec room, with lockers and sports equipment; the Nashville store features a gold-plated Dance Dance Revolution machine.
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And Rec Room, a free app that she could download and open from her headset, became one of the first games she tried.
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On the walkout lower level, the owners removed one of two garages and created a bedroom, a full bathroom and a rec room.
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Ten years later, Staton's rec room had been flooded twice, and her insurance premiums, like those of many coastal property owners, had skyrocketed.
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The house also has a lower level with a rec room, a laundry area and a small bonus room useful for wine storage.
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It's got underground parking, a courtyard, a library and rec room, plus a backyard grill and built-in bar ... pool and fire pit included.
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All three children were homeschooled through second grade, with Badu holding forth in her converted rec room or, when necessary, on her tour bus.
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The musicianship of the group was solid, and the crowd, which mingled in the basement-rec-room atmosphere, was an interesting mix of generations.
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During the endless rec-room card games that fill up a prison sentence, he would lose and then snort in frustration before growing coldly silent.
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Maybe there's still a warm place, the umbilicus to get there a crystalline moment between the backseat of a car and warm basement rec room.
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Aptly enough, the space is done up for the performance as a basement rec room, complete with motley chairs and a fridge full of beer.
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The walkout basement has a terra-cotta tiled-floor rec room with a fireplace, a climate-controlled wine storage area and a sauna and shower.
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At the center of the gallery is an installation that recreates the suburban rec room studio set in which Thomas staged many of her photographs.
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In Detroit, there's one designed to resemble a 1980s rec room; if you don't get out, the promotional materials warn, you'll be stuck playing Atari forever.
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She kept thinking about this as she failed to sleep later that night, downstairs in the rec room, with its giant TV and squeaking air mattress.
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After a good deal of VR bar-hopping, I found the most active social communities in four social VR apps: Bigscreen, vTime, AltspaceVR and Rec Room.
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It's in Rec Room that I played several games of paintball, bonding with my own team of strangers as we worked together to defeat opposing teams.
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With Rec Room, you can meet up and "hang" with friends in a number of user-created rooms in VR, kind of like a virtual forum.
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There is also a roughly 160-square-foot detached "rec room" with a half bathroom that was staged as a photo studio on a recent tour.
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Social VR apps like Rec Room and Altspace abstract us into caricatures, with expressions that rarely (if ever) map to what we're really doing with our faces.
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Brown's beautiful 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty, and subsequent $8,200 fine, has been immortalized for all who enter his rec room, or social media web, to see.
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So does Ms. Shapiro's direction, which is confident and highly polished; even the boys' mortifying, half-remembered rec-room dance routines are snappily choreographed, by Faye Driscoll.
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"My fitness routine now is actually much more vigorous than when I was doing Dancing With the Stars," Hough tells Men's Health for their MH Rec Room series.
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My first stop was the main lodge, which includes a kitchen, dining room, lounge, library, and a kid-friendly rec room with a pool table and board games.
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He additionally runs a few smaller e-commerce stores that are growing in sales each month, including Rec Room Hideout, which offers game-room tables, boards, and accessories.
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Eight men once lived and worked there, lounging in a rec room decked out with dorm furniture, reheating prepackaged dinners, and passing the time with rounds of Battleship.
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The lower level of the house also has a carpeted rec room with a wet bar, a gym and small theater room, as well as a full bath.
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Among the treasures is a re-creation of the rec room at Patsy and Charlie's suburban Nashville "dream home," complete with original stereo, record collection and still-running refrigerator.
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When Rec Room launched in the summer of 2016, it didn't feel like a platform for social virtual reality as much as it did a collection of mini-games.
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There were 222 or so people in the rec room waiting for us, some in wheelchairs, others sleeping or trembling to an internal rhythm nobody else will ever hear.
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The basement level includes a family room and rec room with a wet bar and a full bathroom, as well as a storage area and a one-car garage.
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Another highly rated Steam game is Rec Room, a free "virtual reality social club" that lets you create an avatar, talk to other players and play games with them.
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Target's Cyber Monday deals include discounts on TVs, electronics and toys, up to 40% off home items, 30% off rec room games and an extra 15% off all online purchases.
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Didn't seem the G.O.A.T. would have too much trouble unloading it ... the place is sick, with a rec room, gym, wine room, spa AND an outdoor organic herb/vegetable garden.
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This level also includes a rec room, a gym, a bonus room, a wine cellar and a combined laundry room and mudroom with slate floors and six large storage cubbies.
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In 2010, he and Chris Young opened the Commodore, a well-loved Williamsburg watering hole that serves cheap, very good Southern-inflected food in what resembles a basement rec room.
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The sustained community growth of Rec Room, the social VR world, has led to users creating platform-specific Instagram accounts—a virtual username and avatar the only markers of identity necessary.
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It's got a rec room, gym, wine room, spa AND an outdoor organic herb/vegetable garden ... and the place even features a guest house with a full yoga studio in it.
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The lower level has been finished to include a rec room with a fireplace, a projector, a bar, a paneled niche with upholstered banquettes and a temperature-controlled wine storage room.
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Clearly this was a family destination, and in the Khyber's downstairs rec room, Asa and our other son, Apollo, 9, instantly bonded with their Indian comrades over foosball and air hockey.
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If today's dominant political recreational metaphor is that of the three-dimensional chess game, Maddow is hunched over in the corner of the rec room, methodically putting together a jigsaw puzzle.
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Décor and furniture from HomeGoods were just the updates she needed in her rec room and new nursery, transforming the previously undefined areas into functional spots for the crew to unwind together.
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Its usage lags behind other more popular social VR platforms like Rec Room and VRChat, and for much of its existence its live DJ appearances were limited to one night a week.
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Guests were gathered at the bar and a few were ordering tacos to go, which they took upstairs to the Arriba room, a fun rec-room style spot with vintage arcade games.
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Similarly, in recreating the series' submarine town of Bikini Bottom, Mr. Zinn shows the wonders that can be worked on everyday rec-room items by hyper-magnification and coats of psychedelic color.
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The lower level has a rec room with a fireplace, a fixed television set with speakers, a wet bar, a closet with a second washer and dryer and a 400-bottle wine cellar.
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For example, the team at Against Gravity has already built a network inside VR called Rec Room that's been maturing over the past few years, with rich environments and toolsets for multiplayer interactions.
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The inside has the look of a retro IHOP crossed with your great-uncle's finished-basement rec room: tasteful sixties wall hangings, cheap wood panelling, a pool table, and many shades of taupe.
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So if you don't live in a large country home with a rec room and find yourself in the confines of a tiny city apartment, you're going to need an alternative to pumpkin carving.
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And at that pace, how can you possibly continue producing high-caliber album artwork like this: This looks like something that would hang in a rec room at a Days Inn in Parsippany, New Jersey.
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His family's PC-IBM XT. Then he was 7 when his parents bought him an NES console, and preadolescent Pat started spending hours in his family's rec room in front of a small Magnavox monitor.
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The Domino's pizzas had been eaten, the Pepsi bottles were nearly empty and a dozen middle and high school students were sitting across from me on couches in a church rec room in Portsmouth, Ohio.
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During this period, the pool and pool house were constructed, the kitchen was enlarged and upgraded, a root cellar was turned into a rec room and an elaborate outdoor kitchen was installed in the backyard.
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If you're at home with your headset on and game controllers in your hands, you can navigate around Rec Room by using your real-life legs, but your head is still physically tethered to your computer.
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Two private guest suites are on the lower level, along with a shared common area that could be used as a den or rec room, said Trent Deushane, an owner of Team Realty, in Nuevo Arenal.
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Then one day last May, he became the first person in the little group of Rec Room friends to break through the virtual wall; Priscilla invited him down to visit her in Alabama, a seven-hour drive.
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There was just Mr. Cenac, 41, alone on a set resembling a groovy 1970s rec room, holding forth on topics like the interstellar aspirations of Elon Musk, the SpaceX chief executive, and the scientific uses of human excrement.
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Last week, his lawyers filed a motion saying that although he is allowed to watch TV in the rec room, the set is not visible from the exercise bike, forcing him to choose between watching and working out.
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The intimate crowd and the glow of the projector screen created the impression of time-traveling back to a suburban basement rec room, even before Mr. Drysdale finished his history lesson and handed each attendee a box of slides.
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The lower level includes a three-car garage in front; in the back are 725 square feet of finished space, including a rec room or fourth bedroom with a wet bar, an attached sitting room and a full bathroom.
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Rec Room is hardly a household name compared to some major console titles, but among virtual reality users, the title has been a standby known for the diversity of gameplay available inside its walls and its wide support for hardware.
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Bigscreen and Rec Room are both limited to the Vive and the Rift (for now) while AltspaceVR and vTime both work with the aforementioned headsets as well as cheaper options like the Gear VR (vTime also works on Google Daydream View).
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When Vernon visited Staton's house, he saw a solution right away: The rec room, once a garage, sat lower than the first floor, lowering the minimum elevation level of livable space inside the house, which FEMA uses to calculate premiums.
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While plenty of contenders have emerged, it's likely Against Gravity's Rec Room has been the most creative in its approach to capturing a niche market while plotting how to build a sustainable business based on users in VR headsets talking to one another.
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Like those platforms, Horizon gives you a suite of creative tools to build your own environments, but also takes a page from Rec Room and offers multiplayer games where friends and strangers can congregate, like an aerial dogfighting title called Wing Strikers.
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The seemingly most popular feature of Rec Room right now is an impressive paintball game; players use one or both of the Vive's controllers to shoot paint at players on the other team in a fast-paced game of Capture the Flag.
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The student who hosted the party—and presumably brought international shame into his parents' rec room—was one of the suspended individuals; those suspended will have the opportunity to reapply to the school after being placed on a very expensive year-long time-out.
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Reva led me down a spiral staircase into the basement, where there was a kind of rec room—rough blue carpeting, wood paneling, small windows up by the ceiling, a cluster of half-decent watercolors hanging crookedly above a frowning, wrinkled, mauve vinyl couch.
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So once I'm finally able to wrangle them into their seats in the space decorated to look like some sort of 1960s pop art rec room, I ask the only question that comes to me at the moment: Do you even like doing interviews?
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The Place On West 55th Street between Seventh Avenue and Broadway, Fishbowl is guarded by a doorman who directs patrons away from the Dream hotel's glossy lobby, down a curving staircase and toward a wood-paneled bar that suggests a rec room in a McMansion.
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With its jumble of sneakers, fun-size candy bars, oversize taco-shaped pillows and matching sweatshirts slung over every chair, Terez's office feels like a cross between a basement rec room and a girls' summer camp bunk before the hair braiding is about to commence.
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Some of the girls from church and I even meet sometimes and listen to Neil Diamond CD's in my rec room and we call ourselves the "diamondbacks," which in Florida is a kind of swamp snake but also a little joke on the name of Neil Diamond.
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Tucked away in the Russian River Valley, this idyllic winery, snackery and upscale rec room is the ideal place to enjoy a sunny NorCal day… or shelter from the more probably rain, popping truffled popcorn and sipping excellent pinot noir from the comfort of cozy chairs.
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Thousands of Air Force personnel cycled through the facility over the 28 years it was operational, and its security detail played board games in the rec room while they waited for signs that intruders—from Russian spies to the more frequent culprits, jackrabbits—had breached the perimeter.
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From a quickly assembled studio in the rec room of his home in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden has staged a media blitz in recent days to try to break into the national conversation that has seen governors, such as New York's chief executive Andrew Cuomo, rise to prominence.
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On the desk in his old bedroom is one of his Alabama playbooks; in the rec room are seven of his jerseys, framed; in the living room, there is his Philadelphia Eagles helmet and, of course, the giant flat-screen TV, which used to be his.
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Consider the highest ranked social VR game, Rec Room, has around 75 to 85 concurrent users per day with average play time right at the hour mark, while Facebook boasts over a billion concurrent users per day each spending around the same amount of time across its product offerings.
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If you must know, my hi-fi's cord isn't long enough to go anywhere but the rec room, which is what my ex-husband calls my attic and is where I sit and listen to CDs on an expensive wicker chair (for my back, which I hurt last year).
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Open since 1964, the location's history as a place of revelry dates back to the late 1800s (it was also briefly a grocery store during prohibition) and today its relaxed beer garden, goldfish pond, and indoor rec room (ping pong!) make it a great place to sit back with friends.
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For the Salvation Army, it would mean setting up in the basement of the New York City headquarters on 14th Street, in a room that looked a lot like a church rec room, complete with a stage and a piano under a dusty cover, but nothing like the grand hall on Worth Street.
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Ahmed goes from a babe in the woods to a creature of the woods in this episode, joking with Freddy and his crew, buzzing off all his hair, standing in front of the communal rec room TV to demonstrate that he won't back down, taking out his hidden anger on a punching bag.
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It's not the first social platform Facebook has built for Oculus; Spaces connected Facebook friends in a limited interactive environment, and Venues enabled mass spectator events in VR. Horizon, which goes into a closed beta early next year, looks like the company's play to stand alongside social VR experiences like Rec Room and VRChat—even Fortnite—and establish its own metaverse.
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Basement and Nothing 5/1 - Richmond, VA - The Broadberry**5/14 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts **5/16 - Boston, MA - Royale**53/17 - Buffalo, NY - Rec Room**5/18 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls Theatre**5/21 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade/Hell*5/22 - Nashville, TN - Exit/Inn*5/24 - Chicago, IL Metro5/25 - Indianapolis, IN - The Citadel*5/26 - Detroit, MI - The Majestic **with Teenage Wrist*with Gouge Away
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There is a $32 Daily Resort Amenity Package, which includes complimentary Wi-Fi for up to four devices, fitness center access at Exhale Spa, daily meditation class on Exhale Spa terrace, pool and beach chairs and towels; use of kayaks, paddle boards, and boogie boards; morning banana boat rides (note: I never saw this happen), lobby refreshments, a rec room with video games and vintage arcade center for teens and tweens, and unlimited local calls.
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From there, the options branch out into more general game-themed items, like this rather classy Titanfall controller: Some are a little more whimsical, like an entire series of My Little Pony skins: If you'd rather get a '70s rec room vibe, you can check out some faux wood controllers with matching base stations: And if... well, to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure what's going on with this one, which Valve itself put up as a reference design.
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