"hi it's Chris Dixon this is the a 16z podcast I'm here with Peter Rubin from Wired magazine who has spent a lot of time studying virtual reality and augmented reality so we're gonna talk about that to..."

"right now it seems like last year and continuing into this year it's what's interesting about it is there have always been kind of these tertiary players in the market and like smaller companies but w..."

"Amazon is doing we know that Apple is filing some patents and hiring VR engineers so there's certainly a lot of motion in the space Sony Sony's got project Morpheus for kind of the console-specific pl..."

"remember and and I think this is the case with a lot of what Nintendo does developers don't necessarily take advantage it's all right so they had these cool cards that came with a 3ds that that when y..."

"market already I mean with the Samsung gear VR that came out in December we have a consumer product for sale that is a big that's a big leap leap to make and then certainly I think that more of the te..."

"do that my understanding for the technologists is that to do that in a very low latency kind of real-time way is far beyond the current capabilities right as VR it works basically if you've tried Cres..."

"have kind of the luxury of being able to pre render everything that a person might see at least in a CGI scenario in a gaming scenario or something especially within that whole thing to I think is the..."

"they do and they just keep poaching and keep poaching and keep adding new people and just today you know we're we're recording this on a Monday and at Sundance this morning they announced that oculus ..."

"if you think it's right my sort of framework for does VR will be more about play because it's a fully you know it's a fully invented world whether I I personally think it'll be less I think games will..."

"but I think you're right I think the enterprise applications for ARR the the kind of driving thing right now and certainly even players that aren't Google and aren't magic leap and aren't in our Micro..."

"glasses and they they meant it to be part of the Xbox Entertainment Group I think that's changed we heard about it because when we invested in oculus whatever it was a year and a half ago we did you k..."

"handle both whether that's fully contained VR or switch you know on some continuum to to an air overlay but I think that the way I think that the two are different I mean cardboard came out of that tw..."

"device so you know there are all the the developer community working in oculus even outside the kind of triple-a houses that have their secret projects the development community has been so fanatical ..."

"played it on the screen it's just like a cars it's like you're watching cars from a third-person ground track first-person is is amazing like I literally played it for six hours as weekend like the th..."

"Carmack has said in some tweets recently is he thinks it might be best if you just take control over yaw kind of left to right swivel away from the player not left writes with a left-to-right strafing..."

"all over this like they I don't know I mean they need something that you totally and this we've see Lucky's tale like this is how you know imagine like Super Smash Brothers and oh my god yeah I mean l..."

"even beyond that beyond the logic of like establishing shots and like you said how people's brains interpret signals if you're in a sphere of reality and you can look anywhere and action is going to u..."

"pursue directional audio was a really smart one to make it an integrated part of their consumer solution because we've got so used to putting on headphones just stereo headphones or maybe even surroun..."

"fascinating so I have a question for you actually you know I've been thinking a lot about this and you know there are a lot of players entering this space and I think that oculus is is happy about thi..."

"have to be to for people to embrace it right so I think if you talk to like Brendan and oculus he's got a very very high bar or thankfully to I like he doesn't think like to me Crescent Bay you know i..."

"top to your Pentium like it's not realistic right so it's that's a good question to me is like what we like how much of this is just that we grew up in the non VR era and and expect the standard to be..."

"where only the most reading battle-hardened you know Call of Duty heads will be able to handle something and you know I'm a big believer in the idea that those experiences should be available to those..."

"everyone and doing a 360 turn in between and it's dizzying to watch in YouTube imagine I'm playing there and that's how they're gonna want to do it terrifying it's gonna be awesome so on the on the de..."

"know we live in a different world where startups are like the game world is different than the venture capital startup world and it's funny because we we'd like for example Michael a brush we try I ac..."

"think what we are gonna see quite possibly is obviously the proliferation of indie games that are made for it just because that's what's happening now but I think that we may see a slight return of th..."

"going to be uniquely well-suited I think to the are in general so Sunday's just happened yeah I think did you write no I'm editing stuff articles about I thought about about this and apparently VR was..."