Meta's VR plans with The Information's Sylvia Varnham O'Regan + SEC strengthens its crypto enforcement team | E1450

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

First, we speak with The Information’s Sylvia Varnham O’Regan about Meta's plan to double its VR headsets by 2024 (02:06), VR adoption (13:14), and more. We wrap by discussing the SEC’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit adding 20 new agents (39:52).

00:00 Jason and Molly tee up today’s show
02:06 Speaking with The Information’s Sylvia Varnham O’Regan on her article about Meta doubling its VR headsets by 2024
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13:14 What will be the tipping point in adoption for Meta’s VR headsets?
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23:25 What does the timeline look like for Meta’s VR headsets?
35:40 Meta’s Burlingame Oculus store
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39:52 The SEC’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, formally known just as Cyber Unit, will be adding 20 new positions

Check out Sylvia's Reporting: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-plots-ambitious-vr-release-schedule-of-four-headsets-by-2024

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It is Tuesday this weekend startups. We have another really interesting
0:05.0	guest for you today. That's right. Another information reporter just happened to happen
0:10.4	back to back days that we have an information reporter on the show today. We're going to
0:14.8	be talking about Facebook's roadmap for their AR and VR devices. Sylvia Barnum O'Riggan
0:21.4	joins us to talk about her breaking story about Meta's new VR product, roadmap, TLDR, lots
0:26.5	of VR product. It is a lot of headsets. It's also a very interesting interview about the entire
0:32.1	reality labs division and the overarching vision and whether like work really will get us to
0:36.9	wear these things all day. It is a huge division for Facebook. They now have taken over
0:43.2	Burling Game Point an area just below San Francisco here with 750,000 square feet of office space
0:49.4	and they're getting back to the office and this is a major project for Facebook obviously.
0:55.4	And then we're going to talk a little bit about the SEC. It's rebranding their crypto department
0:59.6	and making some new hires to do more enforcement in the wild west of crypto. It's going to be a
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2:05.2	All right, everybody. Welcome to Tuesday here at this week in startups. Mollie, we got to
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