Saku Panditaratne

Author, Rationally Exuberant · 1 appearance on the record.

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After serving on the deal team at Andreessen Horowitz covering virtual and augmented reality trends, she founded Asteroid Technologies to develop 3D and AR developer tooling. She later transitioned into consulting on product marketing for technical startups and writing the tech-optimist publication Rationally Exuberant.

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Panditaratne: Near-term VR adoption will be limited to gamers and prosumers

“The next couple of years will be the years of VR for gamers and for prosumers. So people who are really enthusiastic about VR are the ones who have the high-end version. And like the mobile's just like a teaser for the general popular.”

Saku Panditaratne Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:32 a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality

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Panditaratne: VR engineering is fundamentally about crossing a binary presence threshold

“I think one thing that's interesting is that in VR, because of the threshold is so binary, a lot of the technical problems are about getting over the threshold. So whether that's in capture or rendering or any of the, or even the headset technology it's really…”

Saku Panditaratne Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:49 a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality	Jan 2, 2019	5m

Saku Panditaratne

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