IBM's Real World Sword Art Online is Being Tested

(Image: 4Gamer)

IBM is making a real-life Sword Art Online concept without the real-life killing, and thanks to Inside,4Gamer, and Nagare, we got some photos of people testing the virtual reality experience.

Sword Art Online is an anime and light-novel series written by Reki Kawahara, and it's set in the year 2022, when thousands of players who have logged into a Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online find out that they can't log out.

While IBM's recreation isn't a standalone game, it lets players see what IBM's computer power can do in a virtual environment. It's also a chance for the company to show off its SoftLayer cloud service and its cognitive systems.

Check out the photos below:

(Image: Nagare)

(Image: 4Gamer)

(Image: 4Gamer)

(Image: Inside)

(Image: Inside)

(Image: Inside)

(Image: Inside)

(Image: Nagare)

Although I'm not a big fan of the anime series, I'm glad that it inspires companies like IBM to recreate its amazing virtual reality concepts.

Via Kotaku