E56 | A Conversation With HTC Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin

My guest is Alvin Wang Graylin, the China President of HTC. Alvin leads all aspects of the VIVE VR initiatives, the smartphone business and is currently the vice-chairman of the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance.

QUESTIONS ASKED:
- Tell us about your background
- When did you discover VR?
- What attracted you to VR?
- Why did HTC decide to go all in with VR?
- Can you share with us some updates from GDC 2019?
- Any updates on Cosmos you can share with us?
- What’s your take on VR for the Enterprise?
- Who’s monetizing VR now and how are they doing it?
- How do you answer ROI of VR questions from prospects?
- How can you get early adopters off the fence?
- Is the future of VR tethered or wireless?
- Tell us about VEC 2019.
- What other technologies can we look forward to in future headsets (e.g. eye tracking, haptics, etc)?
- Tell us about your “lip tracking” announcement. How will that work? Can you share some use cases for it?
- Ultimately, for VR to take off in a big way, HMDs have to become ubiquitous just like televisions and allow people to use any experience in the market (just like I can watch any program on any TV). What's your thoughts on this and what does that mean to HMD manufacturers such as HTC?
- How can HTC Vive compete with lower cost HMDs? What do you consider your market differentiator to be?
- Do you see AR and VR ultimately merging?
- For developers in the enterprise wanting to get into VR today, do you have any thoughts or words of inspiration why this is the time to do it?
- What does the future of VR and AR look like to you if you had full control over it?

LINKS:
- https://www.vive.com/us/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/agraylin/
- https://twitter.com/AGraylin