Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
24 Mar 2021 Acquired Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)
“It was so heavy, they were called Gravity A units, Gravity B units. We don't know what we're doing.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 24 Mar 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Not only did you not have the idea for Rec Room, you had no idea. The plan was just, we like working together, we're going to get together ,we're going to do something. Yes, as I said, 30 or more people left. A bunch of them were like, I'm going to form this company, we're going to form that company. Against Gravity just happen to be one of those offshoots. The name Against Gravity, actually, is a demonstration of how little of a plan we had. The HoloLens headset internally was codenamed Gravity. It was so heavy, they were called Gravity A units, Gravity B units. We don't know what we're doing. We know we're moving away from that, and I guess we'll call it Against Gravity. We were actually still very excited to go build HoloLens software. We just couldn't get a hold of a HoloLens. Some friends at Valve hooked us up with an HTC VIVE and we were like, okay, well, we got a piece of hardware, why don't we start messing around on this thing? Wow. That's so cool.…
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