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Episode 35: Oculus

Apr 11, 2017

01:21:59

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Highlights

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Episode notes

Monopoly on Direct Customer Relationship

01:07

Kickstarter: Enabling Others' Creativity and Leading to Oculus

01:21

Is Google Taking That Approach With Daydream VR?

01:38

Oculus CEO Palmer Lucky Has Left Facebook

02:00

Introduction

2min

Podcast Presented by Acquired at Dot FM

2min

The Greatest Founders of All Time

2min

Facebook's 2014 Acquisition of Oculus

3min

What's the Future of Virtual Reality?

2min

The Next Great Entrepreneur Is John Carmack

2min

John Carmack and the Rift

2min

E3 2012 Is the Watershed Moment for Oculus VR

2min

Gaming Is a Dual Track of Pushing the Envelope on PCs

2min

10.

The Oculus VR Kickstarter

2min

11.

The Kickstarter Campaign Is a Great Model to Bootstrap a VR Company

2min

12.

Oculus DK One Developer Kit

2min

13.

The DK Two Is the Next Title Wave of Technology

2min

14.

Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg's Acquisition of Oculus

2min

15.

Facebook's FOMO

4min

16.

Facebook's Acquisition of ZeniMax by Oculus - What's the Story?

4min

17.

Oculus Rift vs Valve VR

2min

18.

HTC and Valve Are Executially Brilliant

2min

19.

Valve VR

2min

20.

The Next Tidal Wave in Technology?

2min

21.

Oculus CEO Palmer Lucky Has Left Facebook

2min

22.

Oculus Is a Business Line Acquisition

3min

23.

Oculus Riffs

2min

24.

Facebook and Oculus

3min

25.

Can Facebook Be a Horizontal and a Vertical Business at the Same Time?

3min

26.

Is Google Taking That Approach With Daydream VR?

2min

27.

What's Going to Happen if Oculus Doesn't Land at Facebook?

4min

28.

What Would Facebook Have Done in VR Without Oculus?

2min

29.

Facebook and Oculus Are the Future of VR

4min

30.

Facebook's VR Strategy, Mark Zuckerberg's Oculus

2min

31.

Is Facebook a Monopoly on a Direct Custom Relationship?

2min

32.

Is Facebook a Camera Company?

2min

33.

Mobile Eye - Vertical Versus Horizontal?

2min

34.

Can Intel Be the Microsoft?

5min

Ben & David transcend the barriers of “real” reality, and dive into Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg’s geek-eutpoia vision of the future of gaming, social, and maybe even the entire internet: strapping goofy-looking goggles to your face. Is VR for real this time or are we living through another Virtual Boy moment? Tune in to find out!

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Topics covered include:

Oculus’s origins in 2010 as a twinkle in the eye of the then-17 year old VR wunderkind, Palmer Luckey, who started by prototyping VR headsets in his parents’ garage in Southern California
Palmer’s time interning at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, and chronicling of his own VR efforts in the Meant to be Seen 3D internet forums
Legendary game developer John Carmack’s own interest in virtual reality, his intersection with Palmer on the MTBS3D forums, and how he acquired and popularized one of Palmer's first early prototypes of the Oculus Rift (which was literally held together with duct tape!) by demonstrating it onstage at E3 2012
How former Scaleform cofounders Brendan Iribe and Michael Antonov teamed up with Palmer after E3 to create the company Oculus VR
The newly-formed Oculus’s wildly successful August 2012 Kickstarter campaign, including video endorsements from both Carmack and Valve founder Gabe Newell
Oculus’s subsequent venture capital fundraisings, and catching the attention of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook’s acquisition of the company in March 2014 for $2.3B
The Zenimax lawsuit filed against Oculus and Facebook following the acquisition
Valve (home of the most incredible company handbook of all-time) and Gabe Newell’s subsequent pivot from supporting Oculus to launching their own competing VR efforts with the Vive
Team changes at Oculus post-acquisition