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Darshan Shankar

7 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Darshan Shankar · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shankar: Software, not hardware, causes VR motion sickness
“At this point it's the software that's making people sick, not the actual hardware itself.”
Darshan Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:32 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Opinion
Shankar: Augmented reality is nowhere near its consumer iPhone moment
“But I think AR is, is nowhere close to its iPhone moment in the sense that the price point is sufficiently far beyond what most people would be able to afford right away.”
Darshan Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:49 a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Shankar: VR leveraged mobile supply chains, but AR lacks equivalent components
“The whole VR movement got kickstarted off just mobile devices. The iPhone and the entire mobile ecosystem of hardware allowing cheap gyroscopes and cheap displays, cheap high resolution displays to be used to bootstrap the initial VR headsets.”
Darshan Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:03 a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Shankar: Hardly any startups received venture funding for ARKit or ARCore
“And you're seeing the same thing with ARKit, where there's maybe a handful of startups, hardly anyone got funded on ARKit or ARCore.”
Darshan Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:08 a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Shankar: Microsoft WMR headsets launched at $350 compared to Oculus's $800
“But it's also higher resolution. It's at an affordable price point, so they're launching at 350 dollars. Rather than how Oculus launched a year and a half ago at 800. So it's lower price point, easier to use.”
Darshan Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:08 a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shankar: The major AR app wave requires headsets, not smartphones
“I don't think you'll have that second wave until it's actually in a headset, until it's on a head mount.”
Darshan Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:00 a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shankar: VR content drives tens of weekly hours for the first time
“And I think this is the first time in, in the history, the multi-decade history of VR, where The content is compelling enough that people are spending tens of hours a week using these headsets.”
Darshan Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:30 a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
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