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GamesBeat 2016 panel will explore monetizing VR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Wanda Meloni of the Open Gaming Alliance
Wanda Meloni of the Open Gaming Alliance

Our newest panel at the AR/VR Day for GamesBeat 2016 will explore the topic of monetizing virtual reality. We’ve seen the initial wave of VR headsets debut with plenty of entertaining experiments. But what is the path to making money?

Wanda Meloni, executive director of the Open Gaming Alliance, will moderate this panel. She is also CEO and senior analyst at M2 Advisory Group and editor-in-chief of the Gaming Business Review.

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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.