Nerf
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the a16z Podcast 7 
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Founder's Journal 4 
My First Million 2 
Acquired 1 
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Justin Johnson: Ben Mildenhall's 2020 NeRF paper ignited 3D computer vision
“In 2020, you asked about breakthrough moments. There was a really big breakthrough moment from our co-founder Ben Mildenhall at the time with his paper, NERF neural radiance fields. And that was a very simple, very clear way of backing out three D structure fr…”
Song: NeRF and Gaussian Splatting Suffer Major Real-World Capture Limitations
“When you try to develop, like, deploy these techniques in, in, in the wild, there are many issues that comes with this imperfect capture, like, capturing system that comes along. Like, people, when they're trying to capture an object, will oftentimes not captu…”
Toy companies typically pay 3% to 5% net revenue for game licenses
“How it would typically work in the game industry is you can pitch your product to a Hasbro or a Mattel or a Nerf, and if they want to license it, you basically give up all control of the game, and you get something like three to five percent of net revenue as …”
Karen X Cheng: NeRF Handles Lighting and Mirrors Better Than Photogrammetry
“Nerf is a way to use any camera, like your phone, to scan a scene, and then all of a sudden you have this beautiful, three-D, like, scan of it, and the, what's interesting about it is it's different than photogrammetry because it can handle Like, light. It's b…”
Dude Perfect Signed Their Foundational Brand Deal with Nerf Shortly After Launch
“Maybe a month after going full time, we got an email from Nerf who has been one of our longest partner that we've had they have been since then, and so we had signed our first big Nerf deal to come out with Dude Perfect Nerf products and do videos for them, an…”