GamesBeat 2017 is at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5 and October 6, and we’re delighted to announce our next three speakers: John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries and science adviser for the influential sci-fi film Minority Report;Amit Kumar of Accel, a venture investor at one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capital firms; and Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs, CEO of Neverdie Studios.
John Underkoffler has high hopes for the user interfaces of the future.
Underkoffler spoke at our GamesBeat Summit 2017 event, and he did a good job so we invited him back. I also visited his warehouse in Los Angeles, where he has created giant curved computing screens that you can control with gestures. He’s still very much inhabiting the future, and I’m interested in hearing his thoughts about physical, virtual, and game spaces in the future.
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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.
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