How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
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How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
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Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
#2So has Ycombinator abandoned any hope for VR since he calls it a fake trend in the first five minutes?
Just curious because I swear saw a blog where they want VR startups to apply awhile ago but can't find it now.
Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
#3So has Ycombinator abandoned any hope for VR since he calls it a fake trend in the first five minutes? Just curious because I swear saw a blog where they want VR startups to apply awhile ago but can't find it now.
He is dead wrong if he thinks VR isn't huge in the long-term.
Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
#4So has Ycombinator abandoned any hope for VR since he calls it a fake trend in the first five minutes? Just curious because I swear saw a blog where they want VR startups to apply awhile ago but can't find it now.
He is dead wrong if he thinks VR isn't huge in the long-term.
Thats exactly what he says. In the long term it may be huge, but it's not a big trend now.
Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
#5So has Ycombinator abandoned any hope for VR since he calls it a fake trend in the first five minutes? Just curious because I swear saw a blog where they want VR startups to apply awhile ago but can't find it now.
The next sentence after he calls it a fake trend (as of August 2018) is that he believes it will be big someday, but not today.
Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
#6So has Ycombinator abandoned any hope for VR since he calls it a fake trend in the first five minutes? Just curious because I swear saw a blog where they want VR startups to apply awhile ago but can't find it now.
He is dead wrong if he thinks VR isn't huge in the long-term.
People have been saying that for decades. After spending 10 years in the 3D graphics and VR industries, I just don't see it happening any time soon. The technology, including Oculus, is certainly getting better but it still sucks. It still makes too many people sick. At this point, I am in the "I'll believe it when I see it" crowd.
Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
He is dead wrong if he thinks VR isn't huge in the long-term.
People have been saying that for decades. After spending 10 years in the 3D graphics and VR industries, I just don't see it happening any time soon. The technology, including Oculus, is certainly getting better but it still sucks. It still makes too many people sick. At this point, I am in the "I'll believe it when I see it" crowd.
NCSA had a VR program in the early ‘90’s, and SGI used to demo the Onyx minicomputer with an Apache helicopter simulator on three screens.
Twenty years later people demo slightly cooler things and are disappointed when I’m not excited. I’ve already seen this future. Wake me up when it gets here!
Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
#8So has Ycombinator abandoned any hope for VR since he calls it a fake trend in the first five minutes? Just curious because I swear saw a blog where they want VR startups to apply awhile ago but can't find it now.
He is dead wrong if he thinks VR isn't huge in the long-term.
While I know that gaming will be huge there are several things that I personally can't wait for in VR:
1: social VR movie going experience. Where you put on a headset in the comfort of your own space to watch a movie on release day in VR along with N other people who are experiencing the movie as well for the first time - but you can change which vantage point to view the movie from - either from audience position, or from the perspective of your choosing within the movie; camera, villian, hero, victim, isometric drone etc. Each movie has a finite number greater than 2 vantage points to watch the movie from.
2: out on VR to attend class events as a viewer: lectures at MIT or a concert at Carnegie or Sydney Opera house. On the night of the concert, from the vantage point of a camera hanging about 15 feet above the heads of the IRL audience.
3: a camera stream from a vehicle: formula car, spaceX launch, ISS, airliner.
Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
#9So has Ycombinator abandoned any hope for VR since he calls it a fake trend in the first five minutes? Just curious because I swear saw a blog where they want VR startups to apply awhile ago but can't find it now.
He is dead wrong if he thinks VR isn't huge in the long-term.
I took a "smart phone application development" class in 2005. Nokia donated a bunch of new devices to my University and we collectively implemented half a dozen or so prototype apps. Everybody knew smart phones would be big, and looking back now, the prototypes were highly predictive of where value would be created later (coupons, gaming, photo sharing). But it wasn't until the iPhone came out years later that the market was ready. I think VR is in the same boat. It's hard to know whether the breakthrough device is 2, 5, or 15 years away, but I'm confident we'll know it when we see it.
Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
#10So has Ycombinator abandoned any hope for VR since he calls it a fake trend in the first five minutes? Just curious because I swear saw a blog where they want VR startups to apply awhile ago but can't find it now.
The next sentence after he calls it a fake trend (as of August 2018) is that he believes it will be big someday, but not today.
So a VR startup might be a tough sell right now (tougher than usual) until they think that trend changes from fake to real (if ever) is how I understood what he was saying.