Richard Marks (left) of Sony Interactive Entertainment and Joost van Dreunen of SuperData at GamesBeat 2016.
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PlayStation VR co-creator says the ‘year of VR’ still holds surprises for us

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Richard Marks has been working on PlayStation VR since 2010, but the senior research engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment says that he can still be surprised by the immersiveness of virtual reality.

Marks, who spoke at our GamesBeat 2016 event last week, also said that VR is turning out to be much more social as an experience than people thought, as even solo players want to share their experiences with their friends.

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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.