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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

High Fidelity raises $35 million with goal of bringing VR to ‘a billion people’

High Fidelity has raised $35 million for its open source platform for building distributed social virtual reality worlds. The platform leverages blockchain technology to enable linkable VR experiences that can be easily deployed across platforms that also adhere to the open, transparent, and secure ledger technology.