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Milk: VR will democratize human experience like the internet democratized information
“What you're going to see in the long term, especially with virtual reality is. The sort of democratization of human experience in the same way that the internet led to the democratization of information.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:39 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
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Milk: VR will feature AI-driven interactive rendered humans
“You imagine on the real-time render side, that's going to get faster. You're going to have real-time rendered humans and environments that are driven by AI that you can interact with.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:04 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Milk: VR user-generated content will transform consumer memory capture
“UGC is very difficult at the moment, but it will be, it will transform an industry of consumers capturing memories and replaying them.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:09 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
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Milk: Discovering the VR equivalent of a movie will take years
“We don't know, it's not going to be about making a movie in virtual reality. It's about figuring out what the equivalent of a movie is, what a movie is to cinema or film what is the equivalent of that in virtual reality, and that will take years to figure out”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:34 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
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Milk: Shared VR experiences will not rely on theaters or physical pods
“I don't think it's converted movie theaters. I don't think it's pods and we're actually working on a number of different ways to accomplish this”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:01 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
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