Brendan Iribe Quotes

Brendan Iribe

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 12, 1979

Display companies, many of them that we've spoken to, are really excited about virtual reality because they're actually running out of innovation opportunities in other markets.

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When you look at this and where it's all going, the hardware business requires a lot of investment. It's very hard, it's very expensive, and ramping up hard on any given platform, whether it's a console or any kind of PC or mobile device, going into the hardware business requires a lot of investment.

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I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.

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A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

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Internally, we're focused on building our own technology, leveraging all the momentum that's out there around wearable computing and mobile computing and PC computing. But at the end of the day, all the code we've written and all the invention we've created has been focused on our own tech and our own products.

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We imagine that some people will jump into the AR and VR space that are complementary. We look at Google Glass. It's very complementary. It's not competitive. It's a different experience. It's used for different purposes.

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We designed a number of features from the ground up, like custom display and optics technology with very high refresh rates and pixel density. We added integrated 3-D audio, a built-in microphone so you can speak to friends inside virtual worlds, and precise mechanical adjustment systems.

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It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.

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We're always doing a lot of user studies on health and safety. We take it super seriously. But if you look back at the history of most new big technology breakthroughs, there is some element of controversy around what impact is it going to have.

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There's going to be a lot of collaborative social experiences with Rift and Touch.

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We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best.

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You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you're now in a different, virtual environment. You're somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game, it may be in a real-time movie, a museum exhibit, or a medical surgical training app.

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The elephant in the room has always been simulator sickness and disorientation. That's one of the biggest challenges.

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Oculus is a company that often does things differently. But we don't want to do things so differently that we start to get into trouble.

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