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The reason the company was started was because, like I said, all these use cases were so obvious, especially after being in the space for a long time, that I saw all this amazing commercial potential that was only being unrealized because the technology wasn’t good enough. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian.
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” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. He worked for Microsoft last year. Paul: Yeah.
” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. He worked for Microsoft last year. Paul: Yeah.
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And while I don’t think the use cases are really there for consumers yet, and the devices aren’t quite there– although I was really impressed with Unreal’s mixed reality glasses. We’re gonna need consortiums, whether that’s in the form of an Amazon type company or Google or Facebook stepping in.
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