Future of Synthetic Reality w/ Peter Rojas @ Betaworks (0002)
Live from the Future (Frontier Tech | Emerging Tech | Deep Tech)
English - December 18, 2019 23:47 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Peter Rojas was the co-founder of a few very popular technology blogs, including Gizmodo, Engadget, and Joystiq. He also founded the consumer electronics social networking site gdgt. After being acquired by AOL, Peter became VP of Strategy and director of AOL's experimental products group.
Now Peter is a partner at Betaworks, a startup studio and seed stage VC that invests in Frontier Tech based in New York and San Francisco.
/// IN THIS EPISODE WE COVER ///
1. What is Synthetic Reality
2. New forms of content made possible with Synthetic Media
3. How Synthetic Reality will supercharge the creative spirit
4. Innate human traits that drive adoption of Synthetic Reality
5. How increased interaction with Synthetic Reality affects our actual reality
6. How Peter approaches researching new categories as a VC
7. Whether longer time-horizons impact Frontier Tech investing
/// NOTE FROM THE EPISODE ///
42:50 https://www.resemble.ai/
43:16 https://www.auxuman.space/
44:20 https://facemoji.co/
46:30 https://twitter.com/matthartman
46:40 https://twitter.com/mhdempsey