Tim Cook Quotes

When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.

I believe AR is going to be the primary platform of the future for both work and entertainment.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor.

In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

I believe that augmented reality will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes.

As I look forward in things like the Internet of Things, I am sure we will talk about video. There is a lot of disruption going on and a lot of new products being brought to market, products like Go90.

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their cellphone is in their glasses.

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality that we've all looked into for 30 or 40 years.

If you look back at when things like tablets and smartphones were first invented, or the Newton at Apple, that was the first attempt at VR. We didn't even have 3D GPUS, or were just getting them.

With the headset and motion tracker and all kinds of different future tracking technologies that we are R&Ding, there is just a huge amount of intelligence that has to be created. So we are looking at hiring some of the brightest minds out there to tackle some of those challenges and deliver the very best experience possible for the consumer.

Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.