THE SCI-FI GURU WHO PREDICTED GOOGLE EARTH EXPLAINS SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST OBSESSION
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THE SCI-FI GURU WHO PREDICTED GOOGLE EARTH EXPLAINS SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST OBSESSION
New technologies are fundamentally about new ways of experiencing the world. And VR and AR will be the most immersive technologies yet, allowing you to deeply and powerfully experience a feeling or story or place. This is why VR and AR are central to breaking down Reality Privilege.
Rex Woodbury • Reality Privilege and Living Your Life Online
"Once you have a good VR / AR system you no longer need phones or TVs or any other major physical objects - They can just become apps in a digital store."
Sriram Krishnan • Zuck on buying Unity
This is a very deep memo about VR and AR that was sent by Zuckerberg in 2015.In this memo, he shared that VR / AR was going to be the biggest technology ten years from then (by 2025). Mark mentions their urgency about developing a brand, financial, and strategic goal in order to not be left behind by Google and Apple which have an advantage because... See more
Sriram Krishnan • Zuck on buying Unity
Learn how to live in the future, the world is moving towards being distributed firstMark finds it odd that VR/AR related science fiction assumes the world is in a dystopian state, both worlds can positively coexist and even mutually benefit from each other
Mark Zuckerberg • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Mark Zuckerberg on Long-Term Strategy, Business and Parenting Principles, Personal Energy Management, Building the Metaverse, Seeking Awe, the Role of Religion, Solving Deep Technical Challenges (e.g., AR), and More (#582)
Much of VR and AR today center around gaming and entertainment. But we also see immersive experiences emerging that teach empathy.