Palmer Luckey Quotes

We're trending towards the holodeck. Eventually we'll have a system that's indistinguishable from reality.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

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.

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.

I don't do that virtual reality stuff. I'm not even into 3D, actually... I've been offered it. I just don't want to.

Augmented reality will take some time to get right, but I do think that it's profound.

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.

Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 1970s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle.

Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away.

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

I'd really love to work with virtual reality at some point. You could make a killer adventure game with that.

I can't imagine that life can be replaced with a computer universe. I can't accept it.

Certainly, virtual reality headsets are behind in resolution, but it'll all catch up pretty quickly once there's a consumer market and there's demand.

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.

You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you're now in a different, virtual environment. You're somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game, it may be in a real-time movie, a museum exhibit, or a medical surgical training app.

Virtual reality sort of encloses and immerses the person into an experience that can be really cool but probably has a lower commercial interest over time. Less people will be interested in that, but there are some really cool areas there for education and gaming that we have a lot of interest in.

We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.

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

I think that AI will lead to a low cost and better quality life for millions of people. Like electricity, it's a possibility to build a wonderful society. Also, right now, I don't see a clear path for AI to surpass human-level intelligence.

VR is going to be defined by the content that is designed explicitly for virtual reality.

Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow.

I think a lot of jobs, with that additional artificial intelligence, we can augment human capabilities and impact.