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Palmer Luckey

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

Every photon that hits your eyes is coming from a mediated system that's making them synthetically.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

That's where I fall on this.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

That's where the really cool applications come.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

That's how we're going to fuse many spectrums of imaging.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

That's how we're going to fuse the real world and the virtual world seamlessly in useful ways, in compelling ways.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

It's actually also going to be good for your eyesight too.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

It's going to keep all those UV rays out of your eyes.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

holes so i'm a big fan of it technologically marketing wise the way that they're doing everything they're not going to sell that many of them but that's not the point the vision pro is the thing that is trying to prime the audience to be ready for a vr revolution not the vr revolution itself a few quick hits for you before we wrap up the first is if you had to hire everyone based only on you knowing how good they are at a certain video game what video game would you pick

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

I'm immediately actually jumping to wanting to rig the competition.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

I would want it to be something that John Carmack has made, like Quake 3, so that then John Carmack would come work for me again.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

He left id Software to be our CTO at Oculus a year

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

after we started Oculus.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

And that was the strongest hire I've ever made.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

I wasn't able to get John to come over to Anduril.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

He loves what we're doing.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

We're still buddies, but he's working on AGI.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

That's been his push.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

The immediate thought is I want to just rig your competition.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

It's actually just about hiring John and nothing else matters.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

If I couldn't do that, I think I would pick Kerbal Space Program.