GOOGLE VR AND THE QUEST FOR WIRELESS, AFFORDABLE VIRTUAL REALITY
"While the VR team remains tight-lipped about the mythical all-in-one, PC-free virtual reality headset that doesn't require you put a phone inside, Bavor did open up about what Google is prioritizing in a possible follow-up product. One thing is certain: virtual reality is something the company is taking seriously."
"Clay Bavor: Google has always cared about information. If you look back at our founding mission, it’s to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible. Information, is the written word and printed word. But images are also information. It’s a lot easier to understand what a tiger looks like by looking at a photo or a video. In fact one of the more popular categories on Youtube is instructional videos, where people walk you through doing complex stuff: changing parts in a toilet, fixing a spark plug in an engine, etc.
But I think experience, in many cases, is the richest form of information. There’s a reason that people like meeting in person. There’s a world of difference between reading a description of walking the streets of Paris, watching a video of Paris and actually visiting Paris. In my mind VR enables people to more directly experience things and have much greater access to that type of information. So for me it fits very naturally with what Google has always been about. Which is information and giving people access to that information."
Read the entire article/interview here: http://www.popsci.com/google-vr-clay-bavor-q-a
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