Technology: Virtual Reality Update – What Are the Big Tech Players Up To?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
It’s tough to stay up to date on VR news -- in hardware, Samsung recently unveiled its update to its Gear VR headset, while loose details about a consumer-ready Oculus Rift circulate. Facebook is starting to feature immersed video content while Google is interested in being behind the camera (so to speak).
On this episode, Motley Fool’s Dylan Lewis and Sean O’Reilly break down who is doing what in virtual reality.
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| 0:00.0 | We're loading up the Matrix on this tech edition of Industry Focus. |
| 0:10.0 | Greetings fools, I am Sean O'Reilly here at Fool Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. |
| 0:16.2 | It is Friday, September 25, 2015, and with me today is the irreplaceable Dylan Lewis. |
| 0:21.4 | How's it going, man? |
| 0:22.4 | Pretty good. You good? |
| 0:23.4 | T. G. I. F. I'm feeling well rested. It's pizza day. I am ready to rock this podcast. |
| 0:28.3 | It's coming up roses. Yeah everywhere. So Dylan we've got a pretty good show for our listeners here today. |
| 0:37.5 | We're talking about virtual reality. |
| 0:39.8 | So before we get into things, I am very curious, what's your favorite alternative reality film? |
| 0:44.0 | Inception or The Matrix. |
| 0:45.2 | It's got to be Inception. |
| 0:46.2 | I could not agree more. |
| 0:47.2 | Just because of the psychological depths of it. |
| 0:50.4 | Was there any... |
| 0:51.4 | What are I missing? |
| 0:52.4 | Are they any other films that kind of lend themselves to virtual reality? |
| 0:55.0 | Doesn't matter anyway. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah. Cool. Okay, so real quick just to give us our listeners some perspective, know, you and I were preparing our notes on |
| 1:03.6 | before I came in. My task was, of course, the market size. Full disclosure folks, these are all |
| 1:09.4 | guesses. It's kind of a joke. There's no hard data on what the size of this market. It's not even, you know... |
| 1:18.4 | Well, it's tough because it is such an nascent market. It is. It's like the the |
| 1:22.2 | smartphone market in 2003 is like okay you have a |
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