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Zuck on buying Unity
We love AR, but new entrants need to be able to differentiate meaningfully from existing platforms who are able to simply add more AR features to an already captive audience. While the widening of access to AR technology via existing channels (e.g. extensive filters) has been helpful in driving mass market adoption and familiarization, it’s also be... See more
Arman Tabatabai • Investor survey results: Upcoming trends in social startups
Facebook has on the order of 10,000 designers and engineers working on AR/VR. They are making a massive investment, and it appears to be working. The only other plausible contender right now is Apple. There are rumors they have a serious effort, but they are ultra secretive so we don’t really know. Google and Amazon don’t seem to be investing in AR... See more
Chris Dixon • Words With Web 3’s King: An Interview With Chris Dixon
One of the most interesting memos about the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook.On this memo, Mark Zuckerberg starts to share how excited he was about what he could do to grow lnstagram as an independent brand and product while also having Kevin Systrom (Founder of instagram) take on a major leadership role within Facebook that would span all of t... See more
Mark Zuckerberg • CONFIDENTIAL HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED NOT FOR CIRCULATION/COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF ONLY
Facebook has bet big on AR and VR as the next smartphone (and as potential liberation from Apple's control), so Mark Zuckerberg has naturally started saying metaverse a lot. But VR today seems to be at risk of stalling out as no more than a subset of hardcore games.