Michael Abrash

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Chris Dixon · said 6 times in 5 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
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Dixon: A16z tried to recruit Michael Abrash weeks before Facebook bought Oculus
“We'd like, for example, Michael Abersh, we try, I actually flew up to Seattle a couple of weeks before the Facebook acquisition, cause we were trying to recruit him for so long.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:12 a16z Podcast | Virtual Reality v Augmented Reality, and What's Next
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Dixon: Valve VR research shows virtual cliffs trigger involuntary physical reactions
“They did these studies where people would look down into virtual, like, they're standing in a room, obviously, but there's, like, they look down as if they're seeing a cliff, and they've done it a hundred times, and they know it's not a cliff, and yet they are…”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:39 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
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