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Hi, everyone, welcome to the A6 and Z podcast.

This episode featuring Chris Dixon, Kyle Russell, and Benedict Evans is one of our

hallway conversations about all things VR given recent announcements and events.

The first 10 minutes is a deep dive into the players in the ecosystem.

The second third focuses on content and applications beyond gaming.

And finally, thoughts on where history, the hype cycle for new tech, and Moore's Law,

tell us what may come next. Who's in it to win it?

Hi, it's Chris Dixon. I'm here with my colleagues, Kyle Russell and Ben McEvans,

and we're going to talk about virtual reality because last week was a big week for VR.

There was the PlayStation VR announcements, Google Daydream, and Oculus Connect, which was packed with

announcements. So a lot of good stuff. And let's get going. Kyle, what were your high-level

takeaways from last week? So with the Google announcement, they were showing off a lot of hardware that Google is trying

to spin as they're doing it in-house, taking more control over the ecosystem, becoming

more Apple-like when it comes to hardware.

But one aspect of that was Daydream, which they announced earlier this year at their Google

I.O. event.

The idea being they are taking kind of the mobile

approach to VR that Oculus and Samsung had and are kind of bringing it to the rest of the Android ecosystem.

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