Steven Levy Quotes

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.

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

Oculus is actually more of a software company than it is a hardware company.

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.

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

Much of the excitement about virtual reality has come from the gaming community.

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

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.

I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.

I really do think VR is now one of the most exciting things that can be done in this whole sector of consumer electronic entertainment stuff.

Obviously, virtual reality is where I've placed my bet about the future and where the excitement is going. At this point, I could say it's almost a lock. It's going to be magical - it is magical - and great things are coming from that. Along the way, I was focused on the first-person shooters. I said we should go do something on mobile.

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

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.

I'm sure 'Cosmo' will get involved with virtual reality at some point.

The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

We are living in a science fiction world.

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.

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

What's really astounding to me is a lot of the guys at Oculus VR and other companies who were creating VR tell me that 'Ready Player One' is one of their primary inspirations in getting into virtual reality.

I'm generally pretty excited about new gadgets, new tech, A.I., stuff like that.

The drive for growth of education technology will further accelerate. Another key area of major growth is e-Health. The overall outlook for the industry is certainly optimistic.

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

I absolutely love VR.