Whatever magic held that small community together dissipated when we were shown the door.
We were shown a video of someone playing Xbox games and making it seem like it's snowing in the room, for example.
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All we really know about the WiiU is what we were shown.
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We were shown videos and tried to reach an agreement on access.
"The evidence we were shown was extremely powerful and it leads us to conclude that this was a very serious blunder on the part of the United States, " said our correspondent.
We were shown a lot of concept art and told about big ideas the company has for the title, including a decade-long release cycle which would run at least through the end of the next console generation.
As you'll see in the video below, we were shown an AR game that takes the environment around you -- walls, furniture and other elements -- and uses them as restrictions, just as much as they would be in real life.
That said, if you snagged yourself a Rift dev kit and have no intention of actually developing games with it, the upcoming UDK release also includes a "VR Mode" version of the software's sample Unreal Tournament game, as well as a summer version of the Epic Citadel demo we were shown at CES 2013.
We guess that makes sense since it has to fit into a standard SIM slot, but it's rocket science how they managed to fit all that circuitry into a board that tiny -- in fact, we were shown an x-ray view of the card, and the number of chips, resistors, and miscellaneous pieces of technology in there is nothing short of mind-bending.
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We were then shown the AirStash's WebDAV compatibility using iOS' Keynote.
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While at the stand, we were also shown the back cover of an HTC Thunderbolt -- we weren't told the Thunderbolt will be making like the Revolution and getting its own chunky wireless charging adapter, but don't be surprised if it does.
We were also shown a Tegra single-board computer measuring no larger than a single small-outline DIMM like you'd find in a modern laptop, proof that this action can be scaled way down depending on the kinds of devices manufacturers are looking to make.
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"It was incredibly difficult to select the winners, but we were all struck by the originality and imagination shown by each of the winners, and we were happy to have four designs with different artistic approaches, " he said.
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Young boys and older men with greying beards half-heartedly mixed cement and worked iron rods as we walked through the site and were shown the skeleton of a 16 classroom building.
Most importantly, it works impressively well, which was amply shown by the demonstration we were given with the device permanently submerged in water at the booth, streaming its audio to another device.
The final specifications of the 3DS were shown at the conference, virtually identical to what we saw at the E3 videogame conference in June.
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She described how she had lost family in Homs, but still maintained that we were "wasting our time talking about military intervention" because no country had shown the will to take action.
Sadly, we weren't allowed to take photos of the One X mockups that were shown to us, but do read on to learn the general process of how an HTC phone goes from inception to the final product.
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"The wildfires, storms and droughts we've seen over the past few years have shown us we need to make even steeper reductions in emissions that were proposed a few years ago, " says Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.
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In the early part of the season we thought we were short, but a lot of our younger players have come in and have shown they can handle playing without a detriment to our results.
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We were then treated to a mini-drama which saw the many features of the phone shown off by the compere, his family and his friends.
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