As someone involved in both the crypto and the VR space, why were the first testers crypto people rather than VR people?
It would have been a much easier pitch to those of us who already understand the caveats of this technology at present state, and we're already believers in the idea. Many VR people are using their current generation HMD's for productivity already despite the downsides.
It seems like it would have been a more obvious route to the type of people who are most likely to be your early adopters, and additionally avoids associating your operation with crypto which still carries a stigma.
I have a lot of respect for Vitalik, but I'd much rather hear the opinion of someone like Thrillseeker for a device like this.
Vitalik and Thor were both early preorderers of our headset (we had no connection to them prior). And we didn't have any explicit crypto angle here, but just reached out to them as vetted early enthusiasts, asking if they wanted to help test the headset as users. In a way, there's something pure about getting feedback from people who are interested in the product primarily as users (as opposed to them already being in the industry).
But we actually do have a discussion ongoing with ThrillSeeker about a headset test/video, and we hope it gets made :]
I can't speak about Thor as I don't know who that is, but Vitalik has never been an open supporter of the metaverse fad. He's one of the people in the space who are too busy being focused on improving the core technologies to pay attention to meaningless marketing hype.
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As someone involved in both the crypto and the VR space, why were the first testers crypto people rather than VR people?
It would have been a much easier pitch to those of us who already understand the caveats of this technology at present state, and we're already believers in the idea. Many VR people are using their current generation HMD's for productivity already despite the downsides.
It seems like it would have been a more obvious route to the type of people who are most likely to be your early adopters, and additionally avoids associating your operation with crypto which still carries a stigma.
I have a lot of respect for Vitalik, but I'd much rather hear the opinion of someone like Thrillseeker for a device like this.
Vitalik and Thor were both early preorderers of our headset (we had no connection to them prior). And we didn't have any explicit crypto angle here, but just reached out to them as vetted early enthusiasts, asking if they wanted to help test the headset as users. In a way, there's something pure about getting feedback from people who are interested in the product primarily as users (as opposed to them already being in the industry).
But we actually do have a discussion ongoing with ThrillSeeker about a headset test/video, and we hope it gets made :]
Because the Metaverse mantra is more linked to crypto than the VR space.
Simula wants nothing to do with the metaverse, so I'm not sure what you're getting at:
https://simulavr.com/blog/we-dont-want-the-metaverse/
Well, the comment from George here makes the topic a little gray since the peole mentioned talk about crypto and about Metaverse, whatever it is.
I can't speak about Thor as I don't know who that is, but Vitalik has never been an open supporter of the metaverse fad. He's one of the people in the space who are too busy being focused on improving the core technologies to pay attention to meaningless marketing hype.
Don't confuse builders for influencers.