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Wevr’s TheBlue: Deep Rescue debuts at Dreamscape social VR venue

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Wevr’s TheBlu delivered a mesmerizing deep-sea experience with blue whales and other creatures when it debuted on virtual reality platforms in 2016. And now Wevr is launching an all-new undersea adventure, TheBlu: Deep Rescue, at the new Dreamscape Immersive social VRvenue at a mall in Los Angeles today.

The original version of TheBlu helped Venice, California-based helped Wevr set itself apart from many of its rivals in VR, which sadly didn’t live up to the hyped expectations. And that enabled Wevr to operate profitably in VR, despite the treacherous waters. Like many VR studios, Wevr has expanded, or pivoted, into location-based entertainment, said Neville Spiteri, CEO of Wevr, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.