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Friday, May 02, 2014

Facebook Zuckerberg Interview on VR

In Wired:  In particular the mention of virtual reality.  Thought leaders can drive fringe technologies very quickly to millions of people. Its hard to move them otherwise.   Talking about the Oculus acquisition.

 " ...  What made you feel that — just like you were saying a couple years ago that Facebook should be “mobile first” — the company should eventually be “virtually reality first”?

ZUCKERBERG: When you put on the headset and you try it out, you really do feel like you’re there within seconds. Then you realize that the system that’s delivering this experience is using commodity hardware with cellphone screens, and can be manufactured for a low number of hundreds of dollars, and this can be in a lot of people’s hands. It’s something that people talked about for a long time, but I think now the economics and performance are finally there where this could work.  ... " 

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