Brendan Iribe Quotes

Brendan Iribe

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 12, 1979

Ultimately, going into the consumer market, we really need outstanding content. That was the goal: if we can get the developer kit out at a low enough cost point, then hopefully a lot of developers would show up and start creating content.

Brendan Iribe

You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.

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I was born and raised in Maryland and attended the public school system.

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As people are showing the Rift to friends, word will spread that VR can be that good. So I'm not so worried in terms of adoption of the Rift.

Brendan Iribe

Oculus is actually more of a software company than it is a hardware company.

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We've been working with Paul Bettner and the Playful team since the beginning of Oculus. Paul was one of, I think, seven $5,000 Kickstarter backers.

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In real life, that's how we're moving around. We look at things while we're walking and moving and turning around. We stare at objects in the world.

Brendan Iribe

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.

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Mobile VR will be a lot more accessible. It'll be easier to use; you'll be able to pass it along to your friends.

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When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.

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There are millions of sci-fi enthusiasts in the world, not just gamers.

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The product cycle for the Oculus Rift will be between the rapid six-month cycle of cell-phones and the slower seven-year cycle of consoles. It's rare to see a phone not coming out every year.

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Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.

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Seeing other people is incredibly engaging, and that's one of the drivers that made us partner with Facebook - social communication. Not social newsfeeds, but actual face-to-face, seeing multiple avatars in a play experience, that's going to be a very big part of the future in VR.

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That's what we're all about: delivering a really comfortable VR experience that everybody can enjoy and afford.

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A lot of times, the internal R&D doesn't pan out. You go down one route, you find that it doesn't work the way you planned, and you have to switch and go down another one.

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Whether it's developers or industry veterans on the business side, top talent likes to work together.

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We continue to see more and more of that - games we didn't necessarily know would work in VR until a developer goes in and discovers the game mechanic that makes it come together. Sure enough, hockey can be a great VR experience.

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We look at Sony as someone who's jumping into the space to help evangelize and build out VR. They're very centered around a console experience.

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With the headset and motion tracker and all kinds of different future tracking technologies that we are R&Ding, there is just a huge amount of intelligence that has to be created. So we are looking at hiring some of the brightest minds out there to tackle some of those challenges and deliver the very best experience possible for the consumer.

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