"hi everyone welcome to the a 6 & Z podcast this episode featuring Chris Dixon Kyle Russell and Benedict Evans is one of our hallway conversations about all things VR given recent announcements and eve..."

"deep dive into the players in the ecosystem the second third focuses on content and applications beyond gaming and finally thoughts on we're history the hype cycle for new tech and Moore's law tell us..."

"high-level takeaways from last week so with the Google announcement they were showing off a lot of hardware that you know Google is trying to spin as they're doing it in-house taking more control over..."

"seen yet the rumor cycle says like oh they've got the standalone headset oh they're gonna announce at i/o they cancelled it actually next year they might announce it we'll see where that goes yes ever..."

"clear the point is it's kind of light mark it's all exactly what Microsoft was doing sort of 10 or 15 years ago with PCs it's you don't have to know what processor and what screen and everything it's ..."

"within Google everyone maybe we should sort of subordinate and talk about the Google event cuz Google and now it's basically a generic high-end Android phone they will have their logo on it it's the f..."

"other own services by putting Google Play services on top of everything and say basically every Google Android phone out there has got Google Play services on it and that's updated every week or two s..."

"rather than it just being on the website but it's not very much distribution it's like one Operator in America one operator in the UK one in Germany and so on so it's like if they get equipped go behi..."

"an option two is there is the Apple device the Facebook device the Facebook Occulus device and then there is a hundred daydream devices and so if there's a hundred day two devices then the Facebook pr..."

"that to mean field loss or to other option till last week the the examples of positional tracking that I had seen working were the hololens does a very good positional tracking like shockingly good go..."

"with a synchronous Space Warp yeah they just released a technology they released last week dramatically cuts down the minimum so there's a couple things also so which means also probably worth with a ..."

"Android plus mobile hardware so hardware that Frankie looks like what's in the galaxy phones the power of the gear vr and so John Carmack talked about a couple of other things besides asynchronous spa..."

"funny because like the oculus reddit was like kind of you know they were kind of bummed out for last four months because if I've got the controllers and they didn't it's like the you know it's the mos..."

"have the stands in the market and it's a full stack and we know apple's working on something around this I mean yeah we know if just from the companies they bought and the people they've hired but of ..."

"own the whole thing but it's hard not to see this playing out something like the way that Android slash pcs played out which is that there is the people who are there is a company that has a full stac..."

"how they do on VR haven't talked about Sony you know back when we were involved with oculus in 2013 really only it was sony and oculus building headsets and Sony's credit they've been in this since th..."

"attached to today you know a couple of years from now as oculus continues to push the requirements down and Moore's law makes the PCs just better automatically just if you look at the entire ecosystem..."

"and you can't necessarily you're not operating at the scale of something like mobile and so you can't do like advertising based business model that's because all the things so far at least on Steam ha..."

"than daydream and gear vr yeah it's got positional tracking it's got hand track controllers if you're willing to opt for them it's somewhere between what oculus had in 2014 with the Developer Kit 2 an..."

"what about Marquis games so that's what's exciting and I think Sony also isn't getting enough credit for is like oculus they are funding the development of games that are kind of of the sufficient qua..."

"PlayStation VR in terms of its impact on convincing gamers that VR is interesting or not but Sony's funded a big enough slate of titles over the next year that it might think that most people would ev..."

"experience and it feel there's an interesting thing for the PlayStation 4 is it you could almost argue that it's going to be they're gonna they're gonna release this thing now and like in 18 months to..."

"they're done with every other competing platform which is interact with the people right like that seems to be the killer app of all of all Internet connected devices right and I mean this is what Mar..."

"like very unvalued all right at the beginning one company we haven't talked about yet is valve and vive you know they did a phenomenal job with the five and the room scale the fact you can walk around..."

"you're sending greater than 1080p how do you get the motion to photon latency you have to run it for your head moves then you have to connect back to the GPU wirelessly and then send send a rendered i..."

"smart companies ya know and their lien dollar company who can hire the people they have so everyone's saying that gabe newell the founder of valve who used to be a microsoft defunded the entire busine..."

"that looks exactly like your apartment or you know wherever you were with that camera and so they basically let you upload these environments and share them to anyone meet up in public lobbies and go ..."

"section of Mars that you can teleport around and walk around and read random facts see a Mars rover next to you for scale turning that into your social experience again it's one of these things where ..."

"like you sit down I'm on my couch and all of a sudden the shadow twitches over there and like wait am I in my headset or not if this is a joke that you know if you if you're your internet-of-things if..."