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“What we were just shocked to see in some of our play tests early on is that you're playing this game that's kind of using the cubes as a buzzer called Quick Tap, where you're competing against Cosmo, and if you beat him, he'll kind of get upset, or maybe he'll…”

“Yeah, because the moment you have a voice, there's an expectation of intelligence that technology wasn't ready to meet yet.”

“We do, with folks from Pixar, DreamWorks, and these sorts of backgrounds. And so they literally, they're using Maya, a software suite that you would use to animate digital film and digital video games, but we've rigged up a version of Cosmo and Vector and all …”

“We basically became for our early products scavengers of the smartphone industry. So you have computation, you have memory, you have cameras that now suddenly cost You know, 50 cents versus, you know, six dollars.”

“For us, we started with entertainment because that was a way to create innovative applications and actually build the muscle early on that we can then carry over into these other spaces down the road.”

“Like now in our future products, we can start putting in depth cameras, which give you a three D model of an environment at the cost, cost that would have been unimaginable five years ago or even three years ago.”

“And people become forgiving of any limitations or mistakes that the robot then makes.”