The DeanBeat: Vacation gaming with the extended family

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.I talked about it this week on a Crowdcast webinar panel with VR writer Charlie Fink. I think my family vacation showed the real power of VR to entertain everybody, young and old, gamers and non-gamers.