Portal Bots, the brainchild of Winnipeg entrepreneur Chris Hall, looks and feels like a video game, but make no mistake, it's real. "You can be online, log in to our computers and drive these robots around with your friends or mortal enemies." Before the COVID-19 pandemic, he loved being in the thick of it, joshing around with guests while guiding them through their virtual gaming experience. And it turned out there was — a remote gaming software product called Parsec. Now, as far as he knows, he's the only one in North America who's brought remote gaming software and real-life robots together to do something like this.

Source: CBC News May 25, 2021 09:56 UTC