An omnipresent AI runs Tencent's RGB-fueled nightmare esports hotel

pcgamer.com:

Tencent is partnering with Ouyu Technology to open an esports hotel in Hangzhou, China later this month. It's stuffed to the gills gaming hardware and rooms themed after esports leagues, and its guests will all be watched over by the all-seeing eye of VEEGY, a virtual hotel manager pulled from the blackest depths of the uncanny valley.

Tencent and Ouyu Technology are set to open their first joint esports hotel to the public this month in Hangzhou, China. Will come with themed rooms, esports hardware, training areas, skill tests, live viewing and a virtual manager that guests can interact with pic.twitter.com/4J28l3o8xpAugust 7, 2022

Appropriately, the video above makes the whole experience look a lot like spending a night inside a coruscating gaming PC, and the Chinese press release makes it sound more like a kind of esports-themed theme park ride and boot camp than an actual hotel for sleeping in.

Guests are urged to partake in a range of esports-themed activities, including five «esport talent tests,» evaluating things like eyesight, reaction time, and strategy, allowing them to «experience the training methods of esports players in an immersive way,» presumably without the gruelling hours-long training sessions(opens in new tab).

But the real centrepiece of the whole experience is VEEGY, the establishment's discomfiting digital overseer who's part manager, part coach. The hotel's many features are all accessed «under the guidance of VEEGY.»

Guests can undergo the aforementioned esport talent tests, access up-to-date esport team rankings, and get «intelligent» viewing recommendations from her vast library of esports vids, among other things. From the looks of it, she's present throughout the hotel and in every room,