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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…