Oculus Rift
product on 11 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes · said 60 times in 29 episodes since 2015
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- Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey (#378)
- #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders
- 20VC: Founding Legendary Entertainment and Creating Batman, The Hangover and 300, The Importance of Luck vs Skill in Success, How Relationships to Money Change & Why Velocity is the Most Important Factor in Company Building Success with Thomas Tull
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- a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
- a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
- The a16z Pitch Room: Sandbox VR
- 20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
- a16z Podcast | Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative
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- 20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
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5 statements about Oculus Rift, every show
Reck: Spark Capital's fund returned multiple times via Oculus and Wayfair
“So TalkSpark Capital, our Series A lead, you know, the deal after Get Your Guide was Oculus Rift, right? You know, Palmer Lucchi. So, you know, we were basically off the hook a couple of months after they made the investment in us because the fund was already …”
Luckey: All components for original Oculus Rift existed 3 years prior
“And what's weird about the Rift is it could have been built about three years, like literally every component that I used in the original Oculus Rift prototype which I call PR six. It was the sixth major revision of my designs. Every single part in it Existed …”
Luckey: Oculus Rift Succeeded by Offloading Optical Correction to GPU Shaders
“What the Rift did was say, wait a sec, we can correct for lots of lens aberrations in software in real time. Geometric distortion, we can do that in a shader on a graphics card. Chromatic aberration, we can correct for that in a shader on a graphics card.
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3D computer graphics are not good enough for VR athletic training
“If we use a video game, a three D rendering to try to train athletes, it's not going to work, at least today. The graphics are nowhere near good enough.”