I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future. Palmer Luckey More Quotes by Palmer Luckey More Quotes From Palmer Luckey Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect? Palmer Luckey virtual-reality perfect reality Today, the best way to communicate with someone is still face-to-face. Virtual reality has the potential to change that, to make it where VR communication is as good or better than face-to-face communications, because not only do you get all the same human cues as real-world communication, you basically suspend the laws of physics, you can do whatever you want, you can be wherever you want. Palmer Luckey communication real law Things like email, and Twitter, and Facebook, and text messaging - they all work reasonably well. But we use them because they're convenient, and cheap, and easy, not because they're the best way to communicate with somebody. Palmer Luckey email use way I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world. It's probably not going to be nearly as interesting as depicted in science fiction as far as the bad things go. Palmer Luckey communication technology real 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. Palmer Luckey able perfect reality The games industry is the only industry with the tools and the talent to create real-time immersive 3D environments. Palmer Luckey tools real games It's taken years for people to figure out how to make good content with a gamepad, even though they've been using gamepads for decades to make traditional games. Palmer Luckey taken games years A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think. Palmer Luckey reality way thinking If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. Palmer Luckey movement office reality You can't really understand it by just hearing about it. You have to try it, i'm a strong believer not everyone is going to love VR right now, but everyone has a use for VR eventually. Palmer Luckey technology VR is going to be defined by the content that is designed explicitly for virtual reality. Palmer Luckey content going virtual-reality reality 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. Palmer Luckey question good virtual-reality reality In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle. Palmer Luckey internet communication people past 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. Palmer Luckey live gaming gamer want Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people. Palmer Luckey look science people world As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be. Palmer Luckey best experience money time I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus. Palmer Luckey mathematics education beach history The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was. Palmer Luckey social-media future technology people VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have. Palmer Luckey you make-it-happen enough want The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on. Palmer Luckey gaming matter reality people
