David Rosenthal: prediction

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…Of course, they picked green. Later on, they can have that marketing campaign of green with envy. Be careful what you wish for here, though, because, again, as we've been saying, literally, 89 other companies get funded within a couple months to go do the same thing. It's a very clever name, also the notion of vid being in there, that it's video. That's another thing that they want to do. It's the classic Rich Barton empty vessel name. There are enough things that it could mean and we're going to fill it with meaning. Because they're doing a thing here that 89 other people are also simultaneously doing. It is kind of a new frontier that they need to invent and then own thought leadership in that area. They do need to quickly build a brand, not only with consumers, but with PC manufacturers. Jensen, the way he describes it is their vision, although he doesn't like the word vision because he thinks it's exclusionary to people, so he said, our perspective is that they want to enable graphics to be a new medium to tell stories. The way that he articulates at the time why video games today are a $180-billion-a-year industry, bigger than Hollywood, bigger than music. It's the biggest entertainment medium, but at the time, he had this thesis that you really can't, through computer graphics, tell stories today. But if you could, it's really interesting because it's not pre-recorded. It can be new and different every single time you enjoy it. It's also the only medium of entertainment that can be networked. Therefore, it's the only one that can really be social and interactive. Our reason for being is to create 3D graphics as a form of artistic storytelling for the future. Everything will be in service of that. I think that's not really what they are today, necessarily. It's a piece of what they are today, but that kept them going for the first 20 years of their existence.…

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