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Dicko: Skylights will be the top VR entertainment distributor in two years
“And so very, very strongly we are in a position, this is our point, we are in a position to, within the next two years, to become the number one virtual reality entertainment distributor in the world.”
Chapman: Seatback screens are good enough; VR won't drive change
“I think the screens on the back of the planes gets them 80% of the way there, and this might be a little bit better, but I don't know if it's enough to, like, really drive change.”
Dicko: Studio early-window licensing requires proving content will never leak
“To be able to have and to get access to early window content from the studios, you need to prove to them that the content that's on your devices will never ever end up on the internet.”
Dicko: Skylights competes with Thales, Panasonic, and Spafax
“We're competitors to Talos, to Panasonic, to Global Entertainment, to Spafax, to these intermediaries, yes.”
Dicko: Skylights gets 50% business-class uptake averaging four hours
“We have one passenger out of two, and so when it's given out for free in business, we have about 50% uptake of four hours on average.”
Dicko: Seatback screens cost $20k each and add $1B in airline fuel
“They cost 20,000 dollars each, and they're so heavy that the airline industry spends one billion dollars in extra fuel cost just to fly them around.”
Nadel: Commits $250,000 to invest in Skylights
“I'm going to keep it simple. I'm in. I want to be in, I like this deal. No, two 50.”
Dicko: Skylights decided to cut fundraising short to prioritize sales
“We basically decided to cut the round short and focus on increasing our sales whereby trust was no longer, would no longer be the key thing.”
Dicko: 75% of surveyed passengers prefer Skylights over seatback screens
“And we have about 75% of people who say yes, and of the same amount who prefer that to see back screens.”
Dicko: Skylights is not a hardware company and holds no patents
“We're not a hardware company. The heart of the technology is not patentable. We basically commit to the airlines to use whatever hardware works.”
Dicko: Skylights holds distribution deals with Fox and DreamWorks
“We have a worldwide distribution agreement with 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks for that”
Skylights seeks $1.8M to scale in-flight VR to 100 daily flights
“We're raising 1.8 million dollars. The idea is to move from the 100 flights that we've done so far to a hundred flights a day.”