Panditaratne: VR engineering is fundamentally about crossing a binary presence threshold
Saku Panditaratne · a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality · Jan 2, 2019 · at 7:49
Saku Panditaratne, member of the a16z deal team, explains the technical bar required for hardware and software to trick the brain into experiencing 'presence' in VR.
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“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 key to have, like, be over that threshold to get presence.”
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