Schlafman: Manipulating virtual environments will directly affect the physical world
Steve Schlaffman · Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 28:53
Steve Schlafman, a venture capitalist, discusses a hack connecting Minecraft to physical devices during a panel at the NYC Data Business Meetup in May 2013.
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“We're gonna live in a world where you can manipulate virtual environments, and there's implications on the real world, and, like, take a step back and really think about that. That was done with, like, a non-serious hack, but it's actually changing the way that we're gonna be able to interact with the world.”
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