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Patrick O'Luanaigh

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
152 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

If you're doing a game for PlayStation VR or Vive, you can get a much higher price point because the games tend to be bigger, but also they're more expensive to make.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

That's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

I mean, I haven't heard anybody have announced quarter of a million units.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

I know that, you know, there's a couple of developers who have done good numbers on high end headsets and certainly revenue wise are probably at the level we're at, but not many.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

And one of the challenges, actually, is there's not a lot of openness in terms of data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

It's really hard to find data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

sales figures and revenue figures for VR software and also for VR headsets as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

Other than Samsung, who announced it sold 5 million VRs at CES this year, there's nobody else talking about their numbers, which means you have to kind of try and figure out and chat to people and work out what the install bases are like.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

Yeah, it's hard to be sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

I mean, we make our own estimates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

We talk to lots of people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

We talk to the headset manufacturers and try and get the best idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

But there is a lack of data in the market at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

And it's partly a function of it just being so early, to be honest with you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

When did you launch the company?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

We started the company 10 years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

So we spent the first seven years focusing on these crazy things called alternate reality games, where you spin a story over a period of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

You have online games, Facebook messages, stories coming up everywhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

And we also did a lot of work in virtual worlds with PlayStation Home and became the biggest global publisher in there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

It was a small palm, but we were a big player.