Matthew Dowd
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Grassroots VR populist & zealot | @thatswilddotcom
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Joined September 2017
VR is the inevitable final frontier for humanity. My presentation about @thatswilddotcom at @HF0Residency…
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The moment virtual reality worlds finally become real will be immediately noticeable.
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Not sure if we'll be able to keep it this way for long. Again, just because of the chaos you get with more than 20 users talking all at the same time. But nonetheless, a really cool new perception that is only possible in large virtual reality spaces.
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We ran a cool experiment recently in our VR world Factions. We reset the server and toggled on global voice accidentally. Quickly, at around 13 concurrent users, this became really chaotic. You'd hear everyone talking at once and it was just tons and tons of noise. But we.
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For anyone who needs more context on me, I’ve listened to 212 and Luxury by Azealia Banks 10 times per day each for the last 5 years. That should explain it all.
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VR still being categorized as gaming by the tech community is a tragedy. VR should sooner sit next to space exploration and quantum computing than gaming. It is one of the next - if not the final - frontier for our species.
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I’ve been saying and practicing this for years, but loyalty is hugely underrated in people. All this YC multi-employee stuff is everyone else finally catching onto why.
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Factions is the Islamabad of VR. Factions is the Tel Aviv of VR. Factions is the Athens of VR. Factions is the Istanbul of VR. Factions is the Kyiv of VR. Factions is the Seoul of VR.
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Virtual reality world builders aren’t Steve Jobs or Elon Musk - they’re Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.
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VR is AI, we just haven’t discovered the ideal equivalent model primitive yet. Social virtual reality world are artificially socially intelligent systems that take on lives of their own in open ended and emergent ways. In the same was as Capitalism is an artificially.
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VR users talk a lot about VR to each other. Outrageous marketing tactics like this both stunt growth and are unsuitable for building a lasting product. It’s harder, but VR developers who really want to expand the space shouldn’t market at all. Rely on word of mouth (there’s.
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Does anyone know what’s going on here?. The new marketing strategy VR games (primarily Yeeps and Digigods) seem to be trying is having dozens of fake TikTok accounts endlessly shill their games with a few recycled formats and scripts. Interestingly, the accounts / TikTok actors
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I want a China wrapper so I can tap into the collectivist powerhouse that exists on the other side of the world. Prompt to anything, shipped in 30 days via DHL.
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“It’s better to measure VR games in terms of MAUs”. No. This is what losers do. DAUs or Death.
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