Anthony Gonzalez Quotes

It seems to me so much technology could be applied to entertainment. Augmented reality, and even just the iPad - touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

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.

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.

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

Virtual reality's been around for 40 years. People have been talking about storytelling in that world for all these years, and there have been experiments around of people trying to do that, and always excited about it.

I think there is a lot of technology that is finding its way into our storytelling - it's pretty unavoidable.

I've always loved technology. Growing up, I loved Nintendo and video games.

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.

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

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 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.

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

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.

The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.

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 absolutely love VR.

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.

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

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.

I see a bright future for the future of computing and its implications for games.