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Jimmy Iovine on AI: “The Great Artists Will Show the World How to Use It”
- ▶ 41:47 John Coogan And also acquired Oculus to get the, to get that whole project started.
Blue Origin Raises Capital, Getty-Shutterstock Deal Dies, GPT-5.6 Launches Tomorrow | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:07 unnamed speaker Expected to formally end the project by September, and if you remember, there were rumors of the crazy hoops that Apple had to jump through to get that incredible display, because they really leapfrogged Meta, who had been working with the…
Midjourney Goes Medical, Noam Shazeer & Dean Ball Join OpenAI | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:25 unnamed speaker There was so much energy around Oculus and the dev community, but it was a tough, it was, it was a very tough business. 2 times in the scene
Google I/O, Fertility Decline, Spotify Logo Drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:19 unnamed speaker Which was, uh, yeah, you'd slot it into like a piece of hardware, but much cheaper than buying an Oculus at the time.
OpenAI Ends Side Quests, SF Housing Market is Back, Kalshi’s $1B Prize | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:17 unnamed speaker And, ah, yeah, I mean, they bought Oculus, they bought a bunch of VR studios, they rolled everything up, they renamed the company, spent tens of billions of dollars on what is starting to feel like less of a side quest, but still is, is so…
Why OpenAI Is Killing Side Projects to Win AI
- ▶ 11:21 unnamed speaker Um, and, uh, yeah, I mean, they bought Oculus.
Palmer Luckey: Why I Started My Own Bank
- ▶ 17:29 Palmer Luckey I've taught myself enough to glue things together and make them work, but when I started my first company, Oculus, or actually, when I started Mod Retro, uh, when I was 14 or 15, you know, I, I knew just barely enough about software. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:21 Palmer Luckey And, ah, back in the Oculus days, when we sold the company to Meta, one of the first things that happened was New York Stock Exchange emailed our contact info, email, and they asked if I would come and ring the bell of the New York Stock… 6 times in the scene
Big Tech turns to mining, Thinking Machines loses top executives, NYC Sauna Wars heat up | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:39 Tyler Denk A bunch of different stuff, and it started as sort of, you know, the Oculus acquisition, a VR headset, then all of a sudden it was Meta Ray-Bans, which is, you know, mostly just a camera, certainly not a VR headset, uh, but has, it feels…
Palmer Luckey Live on TBPN
- ▶ 14:28 Palmer Luckey So, uh, yeah, I, I couldn't imagine starting Oculus where I am today.
- ▶ 15:23 Palmer Luckey Even before Oculus. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:23 Palmer Luckey So I've been on the other side of the negotiating table inside of, you know, inside of Meta, formerly Facebook and, you know, formerly Oculus. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
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- ▶ 15:53 John Coogan Of course, uh, first created by Palmer Luckey at Oculus, sold into, to Meta and Facebook, um, and now rebranded as the Quest.
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 27:37 John Coogan It's just, it's just a unique situation because we, we know of Palmer Luckey because of Oculus, the product in many people know of Cluey because of you and the, and the viral stunts that you've pulled.
The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- ▶ 10:09 Sam Lessin Um, Snow Crash was well, well before Oculus on the required reading list.
Sam Lessin on Meta, Artificial Intelligence, and Investing in Creators.
- ▶ 14:59 unnamed speaker Oculus, any of these products at all? 3 times in the scene
He's Making REAL LIFE Super Heroes! (Palmer Lucky)
- ▶ 1:01 unnamed speaker Since my pre-Oculus days as a teenager who had, who had the opportunity to do a tiny bit of work on the Army's Brave Mind project, I've believed there would be a headset on every soldier long before there is a headset on, on every civilian.
- ▶ 4:35 unnamed speaker Nothing that was, you know, truly, truly integrated and something that was on par with even an Oculus-esque experience.
- ▶ 7:02 unnamed speaker Oculus is blowing up and Microsoft wants to get in the game.
- ▶ 14:12 unnamed speaker Cause he's the, he's the consumer guys built the Oculus he's built, uh, you know, the chromatic, but then he's also built stuff that needs to sit on the battlefield.
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 1:36:12 John Coogan He bought Oculus and that one went through, but then he bought some fitness VR app.
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 1:31:30 unnamed speaker Was famously very anti-meta for a very long time because of all the drama around Oculus, um, but recently he went to Meta HQ, tried the latest VR headset, the Orion headset, and kind of forgave Boz, and said, look, I now understand, like,…
Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
- ▶ 23:07 John Coogan There's six different logins now because I have a Facebook password, a meta password, an Instagram password, an Oculus password, a PIN.