Dean Takahashi's mother gives the Oculus Go a whirl.
Dean Takahashi's mother gives the Oculus Go a whirl.
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The DeanBeat: Vacation gaming with the extended family

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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For me, summer used to be time to spend outdoors. Big video games didn’t debut when kids like me were growing up and going outside to play. Our parents encouraged us to go outside. But now we can take our games with us anywhere, and I like nothing more than taking them on the big family vacation.

I took the Oculus Go virtual reality headset, the Nintendo Switch portable game console, and my aging iPhone 6 on vacation with my extended family in San Luis Obispo. It wasn’t much of a gaming arsenal, but my nephew also had his gaming laptop. We had everyone from 5-year-olds to matriarchs in their 80s there, and most of them weren’t gamers.

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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.