Stromberg: VR distribution will shift from download stores to subscription models
Robert Stromberg · a16z Podcast | Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative · Jan 2, 2019 · at 31:02
Robert Stromberg is an Oscar-winning visual designer and co-founder of The Virtual Reality Company. He discusses future distribution models for virtual reality media.
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“Initially where you know when you have sites like Steam and you know, Oculus site and all these will be the first places that you're able to sort of download, but I can see very clearly a time when you will have this sort of Netflix like library to choose from and pay for a subscription.”
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