Westworld VR experience at Techcrunch Disrupt.
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Westworld VR promises to make your Wild West fantasies come true

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The most interesting booth at the Techcrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco was the clean and corporate-looking Westworld exhibit, featuring models dressed in white who invited you to get a taste of the ultimate travel destination. It was a virtual reality demo designed to promote Westworld, a remake of the sci-fi thriller that debuts in October on HBO.

I watched the trailer on a big TV and signed up for a demo. When I returned for it, the man in white asked me if I wanted a male or female to show me the tour. A woman escorted me to a black room on the right. There, a representative had me put on the HTC Vive virtual reality headset.

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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.