Panditaratne: Near-term VR adoption will be limited to gamers and prosumers
Saku Panditaratne · a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality · Jan 2, 2019 · at 3:32
Saku Panditaratne of Andreessen Horowitz's deal team outlines the immediate target market for virtual reality headsets.
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“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.”
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