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That’s the case with VR, which becomes an exercise in gathering hints in perpetual market-sizing mode. But there are also some valuable gut checks and thought exercises that help to wrap one’s brain around a given product segment. And let’s say for the sake of argument that each Quest owner has bought 3 games on average.
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We talk a lot about the business use cases of XR on this podcast, but any good business comes with a great fitness plan or exercise room. As a gamer, I definitely enjoy the fact that I can play a game, not be sitting the entire time, and afterwards, I've burnt 500 calories, and feel really good about it the next day. What does he do?
Only instead of for games, you’re doing it for learning. And that allowed us to expand the business and have a presence that today, although we don’t have investment, I think we have more locations than MagicLeap, that has a $2.7-billion Even great guys like MagicLeap or Hololens. billion investment.
Only instead of for games, you’re doing it for learning. And that allowed us to expand the business and have a presence that today, although we don’t have investment, I think we have more locations than MagicLeap, that has a $2.7-billion Even great guys like MagicLeap or Hololens. billion investment.
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For example, if I’m going through some sort of instruction or training exercise where my environment really matters, then we can understand why it might be important to jump into a VR headset and limit the distraction from the real environment around me, and replace it with an entirely virtual environment. That’s really exciting.
Only instead of for games, you're doing it for learning. And that allowed us to expand the business and have a presence that today, although we don't have investment, I think we have more locations than MagicLeap, that has a $2.7-billion And I'm together with MagicLeap, I think MagicLeap is a wonderful product.
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Now, in my personal, humble opinion, with the technology now today with 3D modeling tools and so forth, and things like facial mapping and all that that's going on in the media industry, rendering that 3D person -- much like we see in the high-end games today --is really exciting. And that game was, "what happens if?" That's gaming.
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