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where I was at the Game Developers Conference.

If you ever get a chance to check it out,

One of the things that I heard that was really interesting

was a talk by John Carmack, who-- I'm sure a lot of you

who recently took a post running all the technology

for the Oculus Rift, which is a company that

They're doing virtual reality technology.

talk just sort of walking through his vision of what

I think there are a couple really interesting takeaways

from the talk, a lot which is incredibly technical

But there are two things I thought that was really, really

interesting in terms of framing how we should

I think the first was, he had sort of made this point that--

and this is really strange for someone who had basically

cut his teeth as being the god of PC games

and being known as someone who's always pushing technology

He made this really strong case that, in order for technology

like virtual reality to really make a significant debt,

a billion people, which is roughly the size of Facebook's

And the reason why is because, in order for a technology

in the hands of as many people as possible.

And that sort of reminded me that, as popular

as virtual reality ostensibly has been amongst people

who play games-- obviously in technical communities--

And I think until it's in the hands of everyday people

virtual reality is the roaring success that it is.

was thinking of the future of VR experiences

was going to be these much smaller contained

these like big AAA type things that you might be accustomed

So the future is, again, for this guy who's

responsible for games like "Doom," for him to essentially

pushing virtual reality forward is certainly a big concession.

I think the second big thing that they really dawned on

me actually came after I had a chance to try two

One was created by Weta, who did a lot of the visuals effects

for movies like "The Hobbit," for example.

did that was tied to the Smaug narrative from "The Hobbit."

And another one I did was one from Oculus Story Studio.

is about a hand that's lost in the forest.

I think that that made it pretty apparent that cinema

is going to be one of the big technologies driving

to get to a place to have interactive experiences,

I think we just need to have these passive "being

And again, these are not experiences that are yet

I think one of my big concerns, certainly

on the virtual reality side, is that there

are a wide variety of different players right now

And then HTC and Valve just announced the new one.

Sony has Project Morpheus that's coming out.

a single technology that's really unified

for all different types of creators to use,

I think it's going to be really, really tough to really see

I think a really good analogy is the early days

of the web, when there were a variety of different browsers.

And for a lot of you, you probably don't remember this.

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