Vreal lets you become a live spectator in VR.
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Vreal can teleport you into a VR game so you can be a spectator

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Call it “Twitch for virtual reality,” except it’s not being done by Twitch. Seattle startup Vreal is announcing it has created a livestreaming platform for VR games.

The company wants to make VR — which is often criticized as an isolating technology — into a more social experience by enabling people to watch others playing in VR. If it works, it could become a key part of the VR ecosystem, which is expected to become a $30 billion market by 2020.

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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.