Re:Atari Hotels
by theelous3 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:10AM
(#34027460)
I'm guessing it's intentionally confusing to garner attention. It's for sure a VR space (spaces?) but they talk about "Restaurants and lounges that stimulate the senses."
The only sense the restaurant will stimulate is sight and sound ofc, and zero people want to sit in a VR restaurant - but it's good marketing to put people through the ringer I suppose.
Re:Atari Hotels
by asmor on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:08AM
(#34027856)
Reading Token Whitepapers is always a ride, but this one, oh dear...
> Atari is going to cover this opportunity, as our first use case is a crypto-casino, offering players the possibility to gamble with crypto-currencies.
Didn't even try to hide it.
> Our industry has become more and more decentralized. A game development project might have its animation created in one place, game environments in another one, music in Canada, core development in Montréal or Los Angeles, and testing in India.
Montréal, in opposition to Canada.
> One of the best examples that comes to my mind is the 2012 experiment by the One Laptop Per Child (OPLC) organization. OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing tablets to illiterate children in Ethiopian villages, leaving no instructions.
I can't believe these savages managed to turn a tablet on! Yuck.
> The value proposition of the Atari Token is to be the crypto-currency of reference for these blockchain-based platforms, otherwise known as “smart platforms”.
Essentially, they could've taken a pitch for any other ERC-20 token and stripped out their unique selling point. They don't even sell it on "brand recognition". It's just "wow look at all that economic freedom and theoretical (unnamed) uses of smart contracts".
Re:Atari Hotels
by javajosh on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:17AM
(#34027925)
Atari steaks! Atari Ice Water! Atari University! (Actually that one sounds pretty cool. A retro gaming programming school would probably do pretty well these days.)
Re:Atari Hotels
by tapoxi on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:17AM
(#34027926)
Atari is basically just a brand at this point that's been passed around to companies that don't know what to do with it. Their current incarnation is known for this aborted hotel idea (they couldn't secure funding), speaker hats, a poorly selling Linux based console called the VCS, and a crypto token.
The only sense the restaurant will stimulate is sight and sound ofc, and zero people want to sit in a VR restaurant - but it's good marketing to put people through the ringer I suppose.
PS: this Atari Hotels stuff has been around for years. Did they actually start building one, or is it still just a 'vision' to milk investors?
> Atari is going to cover this opportunity, as our first use case is a crypto-casino, offering players the possibility to gamble with crypto-currencies.
Didn't even try to hide it.
> Our industry has become more and more decentralized. A game development project might have its animation created in one place, game environments in another one, music in Canada, core development in Montréal or Los Angeles, and testing in India.
Montréal, in opposition to Canada.
> One of the best examples that comes to my mind is the 2012 experiment by the One Laptop Per Child (OPLC) organization. OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing tablets to illiterate children in Ethiopian villages, leaving no instructions.
I can't believe these savages managed to turn a tablet on! Yuck.
> The value proposition of the Atari Token is to be the crypto-currency of reference for these blockchain-based platforms, otherwise known as “smart platforms”.
Essentially, they could've taken a pitch for any other ERC-20 token and stripped out their unique selling point. They don't even sell it on "brand recognition". It's just "wow look at all that economic freedom and theoretical (unnamed) uses of smart contracts".
The hot mess: https://atarichain.com/documents/atari-white-paper.pdf
If you can't design a website, how do you design a hotel?
So, nowhere.
https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/12/04/what-if-ataris-pong-was...