Richard Marks, senior research engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment
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Sony’s Richard Marks will explain what works in VR at GamesBeat 2016

Our next speaker for our GamesBeat 2016 event is Richard Marks, a senior research engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment. He’ll be one of the speakers at our AR/VR day, which will focus on strategy for the augmented reality and virtual reality markets.

Marks’ topic for his fireside chat is “What Works in VR and What Doesn’t.” He should know, as he is one of VR’s pioneers, recently running the Sony PlayStation Magic Lab that came up with the PlayStation VR technology. Sony is making a major investment in PlayStation VR and plans to launch it in October.

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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.