Mary Pilon 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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Science and technology is going to change every day for the rest of your lives.

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.

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

When people ask whether virtual reality will be a real thing or just the next 3D, what I always say is, 'Take a headset, walk outside, and the next person you meet, put it on them and see what the reaction is.'

I'm excited about all technology.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Who knows what form storytelling will take in the future?

Innovations, which are the births of time.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.