Fantastic Beasts will be in VR on Daydream.
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Google’s Daydream will have a J.K. Rowling Fantastic Beasts VR app

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Google announced today that its Daydream virtual reality platform will have an app based on Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, an upcoming movie based on the work of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

The VR experience will use Google’s newly announced headset, Google’s Daydream View, which debuts in November for $79 and works with the company’s new smartphone, the Google Pixel. It also uses the Daydream controller, which is a handheld wand-like device for navigating in VR.

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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.