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“So I think that stuff is really going to work for video games and adult entertainment, and it could work for education.”

“VR is not a place where we have made a ton of investments yet as a firm. We have one investment on the West Coast,”

“We're not, Going global, we're bringing people to the United States in order to train them in specific industries such as blockchain and virtual reality is where our focuses have been.”

“I actually, I'll go on record and say, I think in three to five years, and maybe even sooner, we'll look back and laugh at how we thought swiping through pictures on mobile or looking at photos on the internet was social networking.”

“Yes. I mean, yes. If I have to pick one, I pick VR over AR, but AR, AR is certainly interesting.”

“Post six months to a year, I think we'll see it going mass market as the right amount of content comes into the market.”

“It's going to be massive. It's going to be massive in a very different way. Whereas VR, I think, is all entertainment. Business users that are sort of entertainment-like, you know, kind of looking at products and things like that. Whereas AR, AR is going to be…”

“Even if you're really generous with VR, you know, it's something like one, 1000th of the mobile ecosystem, right?”

“And it'll probably be some time before those applications really emerge. There'll be some time before you get enough of an installed base to build you know, big enough business. There'll be some time before those enabling technologies mature and harden such th…”

“I think it's a game changer for collaboration and workforces. I think it's an extension of entertainment for people. I don't buy in that, you know, VR is going to be a replacement for movies or television or books.”

“GIFs in virtual reality, GIFs in your glasses, GIFs outside of computers, GIFs on paper. You know, a whole new kind of search engine that no one's ever seen before, where everything moves, which resembles all of life. Just think of what you look at in the worl…”

“I just think that the intersection of VR and e-sports is still maybe say three to four years off.”

“Oh, yeah, I don't think so. I think a lot of people think they will. Good odds that I'm wrong, but I really think they're just different use cases. I think that the idea that you're putting on a headset to get away from the world is quite different than AR, wh…”

“Until there's 10 to twenty million of installed base, you know, I think the content companies are going to struggle.”

“I joined Mitch Lasky at Benchmarks of the World in being very anti-VR. It's some of the very best innovations of the last decade have been those that fundamentally bring people together. And VR for me is an isolated experience that detracts from a feeling of s…”

“A theme that I would say is justified heat is enterprise machine learning, and then I would say unjustified, I would say VR. I think Oculus has created disproportionate excitement around the space that is It's infinitely further away than we think would be min…”

“I've always disliked virtual reality. I've never been a fan of it. I wrote a blog post on a medium here, I guess a year and a half, two years ago about just virtual reality being a fad.”

“It is an earth-shattering experience, and we're in the early innings of it. It is truly Extraordinary, life-changing, and it's a next-generation platform. Things that are going to, the amazing things that entrepreneurs are going to do in VR are going to blow e…”

“Overhyped, I think, has been esports and VR, too, but definitely esports.”

“I think we're sort of poised to make that same mistake again with virtual reality.”

“I think early stage consumer VR has been suffering from that now for the last couple of years, and in the long run, VR may be a very, very powerful platform, but it may not quite fulfill the potential that those early stage Contributors and developers thought …”

“If you think about all the technologies that are in development today, like AR, VR, genomics, and things like CRISPR, if you think about blockchain and cryptocurrencies, these technologies are also being developed on and approaching their iPhone moment, so to …”

“There are new platforms if you think about something like voice or VR, but we're pretty far from those consumer adoption tipping points, or so it seems.”

“I haven't done a ton in VR because I find it insanely difficult to predict when that market's really going to take off at scale.”

“The companies that will end up building massive standalone businesses here will figure out how to leverage the uniqueness of AR and VR and iOS and web and Android to give multiple viewers different viewing perspectives and interactions with the same content.”

“My belief is the real revolution that's happening here is in real time, three D rendering and in multiplayer Real-time three D worlds.”

“Artificial intelligence is not a natural outcropping of virtual reality or augmented reality.”

“All the innovative stuff that was going inside the company was really being blocked from flowing to the company brand. Because when people saw the company brand, they were so dominated by the name that defines social media that if we're doing something really …”

“In startup mode, you actually have to take a lot more bets without certain data. As a mature company, there are some massive bets you should make. Reels, virtual reality, where it turns out you're going to take a big risk to do that bet, but it's the right thi…”

“Our analysis was, no, it's gonna both be more integrated into my real world, you know, smart glasses and immersive in VR, and it's gonna be smarter. It's gonna be AI.”

“And I think, you know, I was really excited about VR for a while. And then I realized I actually don't want to strap a computer to my face. I'm not interested in being disengaged from the world more. I want to be engaged in the world more than I am. I don't wa…”