$RBLX earnings, Jetson ONE personal aircraft + Oculus game dev Ryan Engle, creator of Pro Putt | E1322

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

First Jason covers Roblox earnings, the platform's total usage is up 28% year over year (2:19)! In a new segment, "We Live in the Future," Jason shares Jetson One, a personal E-VTOL (11:16). Then, Ryan Engle of Golf+ joins to talk about the VR golf game his team developed for Oculus (23:08), Meta's lead in VR hardware (51:29) and more.

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0:00.0	Okay, everybody. We got some cool news for you. Roblox's earnings are out and we're going to do
0:05.8	a new segment today. We live in the future and we're going to let you know about a cool new startup.
0:11.1	That is doing basically speeder bikes or spinners from Blade Runner. Very cool new technology in
0:18.4	the VTOL space. Got some exciting video there too if you watch the YouTube channel. After that,
0:23.8	Ryan Engel is with us. He is the CEO and founder of Golf Plus. You might remember a few weeks
0:29.7	ago I tweeted about Oculus and the Triomai. Good bye. People just absolutely trying it,
0:35.6	absolutely loving it and then never using it again because it's too bulky and maybe it's
0:39.8	just too intense for casual gamers but hardcore gamers still prefer PCs. Well, in that thread,
0:45.8	Ryan had a really considered response. So we decided to have him on the show and Golf Plus makes
0:50.4	an amazing VR game for Oculus called Pro Putt by Top Golf. So go check that out and we talk about
0:58.0	all the issues in AR versus VR. How much time people are actually going to want to spend in VR
1:03.6	with these heavy clunky headsets when we're going to get the AR headsets that are just like putting
1:08.3	on a pair of sunglasses and what companies are developing the best headsets maybe when Apple's
1:14.2	headsets will come out. It's a really deep dive into the VR versus AR debate and the entire
1:20.0	metaverse space and he is really credible because he's working in and every day really appreciated
1:24.7	having him on the episode. So let's get to it. This week in startups is brought to you by
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2:19.0	Okay, Roblox reported a huge quarter into three doubling revenue year over year to 509
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