High Fidelity previously made entertainment VR such as a virtual dance floor.
High Fidelity previously made entertainment VR such as a virtual dance floor.
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The DeanBeat: High Fidelity takes us dancing in a virtual reality club

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I’m looking forward to Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film based on Ernest Cline’s virtual reality sci-fi novel Ready Player One. In one scene in that 2011 tome, a group of hackers gather to dance in a virtual night club. They float in the air and bump and grind to pulse-pounding music as a masked DJ looms over the crowd. It was one of many iconic moments about our VR future in the sci-fi novel.

And I got to experience a little taste of that scene yesterday at High Fidelity, Philip Rosedale’s VR world company in San Francisco. Rosedale (who will be a speaker at our upcoming GamesBeat Summit 2018 event; check out our $500 indie dev ticket) was the visionary behind Second Life, the online virtual world built by his former company, Linden Lab.

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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.