Pantharatna: Developers Want VR Headsets Displaying 10 to 15 Virtual Screens
Sakundala Pantharatna · a16z Podcast | The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality · Jan 2, 2019 · at 29:28
Sakundala Pantharatna, a researcher at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses enterprise software development tools in virtual reality.
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“Nearly every developer I talk to about VR wishes that they could have a headset that they could put on and have, you know, 10 or 15 screens to code on.”
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