Palmer Luckey Quotes

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.

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

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

Virtual reality, to me, seems to have a number of different tiers. Entry-level-tier VR is this experience: on a phone, some simple head-tracking, and some quick and dirty, game-engine-quality stuff.

We have an enormous vision for a new category for human interaction and, ultimately, immersive entertainment.

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.

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 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.

A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.

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.

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.

If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.

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

VR as a display technology, as it's miniaturized and made comfortable and mainstream, will be a replacement for all other forms of display technology, input and output. So for anybody who works with computers all day, this is going to be our future.

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.

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've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.

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

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.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

Computing is evolving beyond phones, and people are using it in context across many scenarios, be it in their television, be it in their car, be it something they wear on their wrist or even something much more immersive.

I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit on and moved your arms then the robot's arms would move in sync with yours.