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SYDNEY VIRTUAL REALITY MEETUP #8

THE YEAR OF VR

VR Snapshot // Kain Tietzel 2016 Year of VR // Kain TietzelOpen Mic // You Guys —DEMOS & NETWORKING —

AGENDA

Fishburners (Venue & Beer)Start VRVR-Bits

SPONSORS

Goldman Sachs says VR will be bigger than TV in 10 years (hardware sales)

NEWS

Gear VR Available now in Australia $158.99

Retail late jan

NEWS

Oculus Rift pre-ordersShipping from March 28*USD$599 / AUD$850

* Currently shipping July 2016

NEWS

Vive “Pre”“Chaperone” modeRefined Lighthouse & controllersPre-orders February 29Rumoured shipping April 01Dev Kit 2 shipping to 7000 devs

NEWS

Playstation VRAnnounced Q2 launchSpeculation Q3 launch20+ launch titles (100’s in dev)

NEWS

Envelop VR $5.5M Series A

COLOPL $50M investment fundPresence Capital $10M AR/VR fund

INVESTMENTS

Samsung Gear VR: NOV/DECHTC Vive: DECOculus Rift: JAN/FEB (CES)

LAUNCH RUMOURS

421 Members55 New Members

COMMUNITY GROWTH

To So

2016 YEAR OF THE VR TSUNAMI

WHAT IS VIRTUAL REALITY?

Computer generated experience that tricks the brain into believing that what they are witnessing is real.

Virtual Reality removes the limitations of the physical world and allows us to experience anything.

Fault Line - 20-30 years ago

FAULT LINE

INNOVATORS EARLY VR HYPE MACHINE

Fault Line - 20-30 years ago

EARTHQUAKE

2012: PALMER LUCKEY $2.4M KICKSTARTER

2013: FACEBOOK $2BN

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MOMENTUM

ESTIMATED 250,000 DEVELOPMENT KITS

SONY PLAYSTATION VR SAMSUNG GEAR VR HTC VIVE

4BN INVESTMENT NEW HARDWARE DEV COMMUNITY

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CALM BEFORE THE STORM

MEDIA CURIOSITY MEDIA ALARMISM PUBLIC INTEREST

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2016: VR TSUNAMI

SOURCE: DIGI-CAPITAL & TRENDFORCE RESEARCH

$30-70 BILLION$6.7BN IN 2016, 70BN BY 2020

SOURCE: TOPOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUE

14M VR HEADSETSSALES IN 2016, 38M BY 2020

36M PS4 SOLD 2 YEARS

CONSUMER RELEASE DATES

Google Cardboard AVAILABLE NOW Samsung Gear VR AVAILABLE NOW/NOV

Steam / HTC Vive APRIL 2016 Facebook / Oculus Rift MARCH 2016 Sony / Playstation VR Q2/Q3 2016

2016 YEAR OF VR

To So

2016 YEAR OF VR

A chance to promote your work, event or ask the community for advice, help or collaboration.

OPEN MIC

SYDNEY VIRTUAL REALITY MEETUP #9

21 MARCH 2016