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Actually, I think the "scaling" is the money to hire the staff they'll need to improve their technology, in this time before they have a chance at a sufficient
by roc 13y ago
Actually, I think the "scaling" is the money to hire the staff they'll need to improve their technology, in this time before they have a chance at a sufficient revenue stream to bootstrap.
Facebook-type users are a decade or more away from VR. They don't "do" fiddly interfaces and rough edges. Even if the hardware was there, the usability isn't.
- ThomPete 13y agoExactly, not unlike the reason why Nest found it ok to get bought by Google.
- roc 13y agoAnd not unlike Facebook/Oculus, Google/Nest makes perfect sense from the Nest side and very little from the Google side. In both cases there are potentially large payoffs in the long term. But they're extremely high price tags for decade-plus plays in which the acquired company has little to no particular proprietary technological edge.
- ThomPete 13y agoNest makes perfect sense for Google. It's all about automation.