Kyle Russell

8 statements across 5 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Kyle Russell · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Russell: VR room-scanning will replace traditional phone calls
“I think that we're gonna see a lot of social usage of people getting in their VR headsets and quickly scanning in the room they're in and then hanging out with their mom for 20 minutes instead of doing the phone call.”
Kyle Russell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:32 a16z Podcast | The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Russell: Hard science VR advances will drive mainstream applications in 10 years
“I think that the hard science things are going to be what lead to the totally unexpected use cases that we're all going to be used to 10 years from now.”
Kyle Russell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:51 a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Russell: VR facial tracking will enable realistic virtual meetings within a couple years
“And I think we're only a couple years out from having things where it's tracking the muscles on your face, tracking the movement of your eyes, where your avatars could really reflect what you look like at that time, and you could do things like have an entire …”
Kyle Russell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:30 a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Russell: Real-time global camera coverage ('panopticon') is becoming reality
“The panopticon is going to be real. So this idea of a camera where you have a live view at any spot in the real world at any time, that's essentially becoming possible.”
Kyle Russell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:19 a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Russell: World of Warcraft kept millions paying $15/month via endgame content
“World of Warcraft has done the best job of periodically adding more and incredibly, increasingly difficult endgame content for its most hardcore players, and this is what has kept it millions of people paying 15 dollars a month for north of a decade now.”
Kyle Russell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 34:18 a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Insight
Russell: VR motion sickness is caused by software design, not hardware
“Something I think isn't communicated well enough today is the fact that nausea typically, it's not the hardware itself. Oh, if you use this gadget, you're going to get sick from VR. It's experiences built in a certain way, using acceleration a certain way, mov…”
Kyle Russell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:16 a16z Podcast | Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Russell: Facebook brain-computer interfaces will track emotional reactions over typing speed
“What wouldn't shock me, despite the lofty goals of getting this hundred words per minute, You know, kind of success rate. I have a strong feeling that what we're actually going to see is kind of getting ground truth reactions to, for instance, posts on social …”
Kyle Russell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:51 a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Held up
Russell: Current BCI tech will allow seamless thought-controlled computer actions
“And now with this current generation, it seems like between Elon, Facebook, probably something from Google that We're actually going to start to see these things that kind of invisibly actually just let you think something and have some kind of action show up …”
Kyle Russell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:06 a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
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