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Ubisoft’s Transference depicts a creepy family in VR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ubisoft is getting near to shipping its virtual reality game, called Transference. The game invites you to “enter the home of a mind” in the fall of 2018.

Made by Ubisoft Montreal’s studio, The Funhouse, Transference lets you enter someone else’s preserved digital mind and explore it in hopes of helping them solve a problem. Actor Elijah Wood and game director Benoit Richer introduced the creepy Transference trailer.

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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.