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dshankar

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About dshankar

Darshan Shankar

Now:

  Bigscreen, a new Virtual Reality startup building collaboration software. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz. Read more: https://blog.bigscreenvr.com/bigscreen-raises-11-million-in-series-a-financing-led-by-true-ventures-a2d49da40e
Previously:

  Founder & CEO of Flotype
  Y Combinator alum (Winter 2011)
  UC Berkeley EECS (dropped out 2010)
Contact:

  Twitter: @dshankar
  Email: dnshankar at gmail
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dshankar; my proof: https://keybase.io/dshankar/sigs/6BBDn3dqhR8fzQYzooUS229YQ8dqKLhYhxNavgZ27-8 ]

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    Comment #37967352

    Bigscreen Beyond developer here. This game is incredible and moody to play in VR on the OLED-based Beyond headset. Congrats to the team on shipping a fantastic game. I love what yo…

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    Norm Chan from Tested.com reviews the Bigscreen Beyond and the Pimax Crystal, with brief comparisons to headsets like the Quest Pro and Apple Vision Pro. disclosure: I'm Darshan, Y…

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    Comment #16971704

    Speaking of Bigscreen...it was released for mobile today :-D Oculus Go launch title and also Samsung GearVR support

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    Comment #16971513

    Bigscreen does this and is a launch title for the Oculus Go. It's available today. https://blog.bigscreenvr.com/bigscreen-is-launching-today-on... Stream your Windows PC --> mobile…

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    > "almost no current laptops have the GPU performance for the recommended spec, though upcoming mobile GPUs may be able to support this level of performance." This WAS true in 2015…

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    Salary & equity depends on experience, location, and the role. We expect to be hiring much more senior management roles in the next 6-12 months as well, an engineering manager and …

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    Remote | Full Time Bigscreen is a VR/AR company building an immersive, social computing platform. Think "VR Operating System" We have over 250,000 users on the Rift & Vive. Our pow…

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    Bigscreen lets you view any content in VR that you can currently view on your computer, not just web content. You can see your entire desktop on floating virtual screens, which ena…

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    You are absolutely correct. I think there's a massive opportunity for "3D programs" (Blender, Maya, AutoCAD, etc.) to become native VR applications. Bigscreen is instead about the …

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    Comment #13729821

    I'd love to learn more about how you're using Bigscreen (and how we can make it better for you). Could you email me? darshan@bigscreenvr.com

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    Comment #13729815

    Bigscreen founder here. Thanks for the kind words! If you have any bugs or feature requests, please let me know! darshan@bigscreenvr.com

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    Comment #12032642

    The original "Show HN" turned out OK https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 (that was nearly 10 years ago!)

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    There is no such thing as a `foveated display` There is foveated rendering: a rendering optimization technique where you render at higher resolutions where the eye is looking at du…

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    HUDs (i.e. face-locked user interface elements, as opposed to world-space UI like on the cockpit surfaces) can cause discomfort in VR. One reason is the vergence accommodation conf…

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