for enterprise startups, the real selling begins once the initial contract is signed ...

enterprise is all about expansion $$$$$

$100K unlocks $500K unlocks $1MM

here are some of the biggest tricks (i.e. false positives) the market has played on startup founders ...

1. traction in a local market will translate to the U.S.

2. generating a healthy number of initial calls means sales are sorted

3. the founder can sell it; thus, a…

More than 50% of Fortune 100 companies have bought at least one Apple Vision Pro, Tim Cook just officially announced:

uploadvr.com/most-fortune-1…

Hypercharge: Unboxed has a release date - May 31st on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Steam.

The multiplayer shooter where you play as a 90s inspired action figure.

• 1-4 player co-op
• Local and online split screen
• Single player offline play with bots
• Wave based shooter…

Really excited to spur the tech ecosystem in my home town of NYC. NYC has some of the smartest, hardest working people and best communities of any city.

We just need more people to launch startups over grinding in finance/consulting 😶

This is great data Jack Soslow

I was an insider in the smartphone industry from 2002-2009 and the similarities are astounding. The potential impact on day to day life with AI powered wearables (& maybe even integrated crypto) will have a bigger effect than smartphones have had.

We believe ARVR is among the most underrated markets today. Most people fixate on past (and current) missteps, leading to assumptions that are simply wrong.

With ~30m Meta Quest headsets sold and a favorable industry outlook, we think the time is now. ⬇️

NVIDIA presents TeSMo!

It's a method for text-controlled scene-aware motion generation and can generate realistic and diverse human-object interactions such as navigation and sitting, orientations, initial body positions, and poses.

research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-a…

The really fascinating thing about XR headsets is that where our smartphones took physical products and turned them into apps, these headsets now allow us to turn our apps back into “physical” products.

📢A new learning-based approach to SfM: #ACEZero

No img-to-img matching, optimises image-to-scene correspondences directly. Needs no pose priors. Works on unordered image sets. Efficiently handles thousands of images.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.14351
Page: nianticlabs.github.io/acezero

Sharing one chart from my VR megapost tomorrow

The VR competitive landscape is extremely attractive for new devs:

🎉 Big news, folks! 🎉 I'm thrilled to join forces with @a16zgames for their upcoming @Speedrun class, backing visionary founders at the frontier of AI, 3D & immersive computing. 🚀

They're looking for startups building the next-generation of:
1️⃣ Visual 3D Creation Tools
2️⃣…

Let me translate what it means:

Google and Samsung are going to ROCK it with their VR hardware + software. Facebook knows it and they are TERRIFIED. The same way as Mark was terrified about Apple Vision Pro and rushed the unfinished Quest 3 preview announcement. Remember?

A…

FFS, it should go without saying that getting more adoption for your *proprietary OS* is the opposite of 'openness'. It's the opposite of OpenXR, for that matter. It's swallowing up the competition.

Is it Open SOURCE? No?
Then it's not open, it's a monopolization strategy.

30 days left to apply to SPEEDRUN. godspeed! -> sr.a16z.com

Good advice & I’d say the same thing!

Founders need to be ruthless when chasing deals steveblank.com/2024/04/16/fou…

Drought free California from space.

What a sight.

Sharing this only because I've been guilty of this before:

If you're a founder talking to someone well connected in Silicon Valley and say, 'Do you know any investors you can intro to?' You may get someone to think of one or two people off the top of their head.

But most people…

Who in NYC is working with GSplats or Nerfs or anything to do with Photorealistic 3D capture & rendering?

Ideally people researching/building this stuff rather than using it, but if you’re a tech lead in a VFX team doing AAA quality projects, please include yourself :)