Christina Heller of VR Playhouse joins the cast at GamesBeat 2016

Our newest speaker at the AR/VR Day for GamesBeat 2016 is Christina Heller, CEO of VR Playhouse, a new kind of entertainment company that is making production services for virtual reality entertainment. She is joining our panel on “AR/VR beyond games.”

This panel will look at the broader implications of AR/VR for entertainment and will also include Clifton Dawson of Greenlight VR, Sylvio Drouin of Unity Labs, and Jules Urbach of Otoy. Heller’s team has created VR films such as  “La Fuerza Imprevista” and “The Surrogate.”

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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.