Richard Kerris of Nvidia and Dean Takahashi talk about the Omniverse at MetaBeat.
Richard Kerris of Nvidia and Dean Takahashi talk about the Omniverse at MetaBeat.
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The DeanBeat: MetaBeat highlighted the enterprise flywheel of the metaverse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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This week our VentureBeat team hosted a new metaverse conference called MetaBeat. The San Francisco event drew hundreds in person and more online to hear about something we don’t talk about as much as gaming: the enterprise metaverse.

I crossed the lines from gaming to enterprise to attend the event, and I moderated a session with Nvidia’s Richard Kerris about the Omniverse platform. I also moderated a panel with Neil Trevett of the Khronos Group and others about metaverse standards. You could say that, as a gaming writer, I didn’t belong there. But nothing could be further from the truth. From the start, when Sami Khan, CEO of Atlas Earth, talked about creating a metaverse for his daughter that could enhance her experience in the real world — I felt at home.

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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.