I've seen many jaws drop when showing these latest two demos to some people yesterday. This is what I mean when I'm saying that the success of VIBEHub is important for the whole VR industry right now to go mainstream. Imagine people seeing their idols or other artists up-close like that. Better than going on a live concert IRL. I think people will be ready to pay for content like that with vibe tokens. Easy to picture many different verticals.

/ Anders

Thank you. True indeed.

I've been part of taking one technology from 0 to 7.7 billion subscriptions, an amazing privilege. I'm absolutely certain that VR will make the same journey, but much faster.

Roughly 2% of the population start using a new tech *because* it is new, so the first 2% is easy. After that, it comes down to adding so much value to people's lives that it overcomes the resistance of changing deeply rooted behaviours. Improving something 10% isn't enough. It needs to be 10 *times* the value to nudge people over the hill of resistance into a greener valley. I'm pretty sure we all instinctively feel that VR has that as a technology. Hardware wise, headsets are getting cheaper by the day, but the killer-content hasn't been there yet.

I've never much listened to other people, I suppose a good trait when spending a lifetime creating stuff that people don't know they want yet. So I looked with my own eyes at the demos produced by VIBEHub, and I felt that they are exactly the type of value-add that the VR industry needs now to move into mass-market.

That is why I decided to support this project and give the VIBEHub founders access to the LiveTourLAB inner works plus our help and advice at this stage. I did what I can to help because I feel the project's success is important to the VR industry, to the world. I also guessed that if a major music label signs up to do a holoport concert, things might move from 0 to huge fairly fast. So there is a chance that the efforts will be worth it.

Is that sure? As anything new, absolutely not. Launching into new areas, like any new tech, you will definitely not be right every time. A million and one things can and will go wrong. But it is no fun to always stand on the sidelines. The better mindset I think is this:

In Sweden we play soccer. If I were to place the ball in front of the goal, on the national stadium in the world cup finals, with the world's best goalkeeper in the way, and shoot it as hard as I can at the goal, I'd most probably miss or the goalkeeper will grab it. But if I keep putting the ball back, and keep shooting, over and over and over again, hour after hour, sooner or later, the ball will hit the net, to everyone's - including my own - astonishment. In football, I wouldn't get the opportunity to even try. But in my professional life, nothing stops me. Changing the world isn't about luck, it's about shooting that ball so many times at that goal, that eventually, it goes in.

Over the course of your life, you don't need to score in world championship finals so many times. Scoring once or maybe twice will give you a legacy, fame and a story to tell the grandchildren one day. But if you never shoot that ball, if you never try, I can guarantee with no trace of doubt that you will never, ever, hit that goal.


Do your own assessment, then trust yourself and enjoy the ride. That would be the best advice I can give. Wishing us all best of luck.

Anders Larsson, co-founder and lead developer of the open source framework LiveTourLAB

I think the VR space will carry a good mix of immediate and longer-term use cases. VIBEHub I feel is doing what the VR industry as a whole needs right now, since I believe the music concert use case might well be what takes VR mainstream.

Long term, you are all here as good judges as anyone. Frankly, I believe no-one is able to picture the full extent that VR will change the world, but I'm for sure going to be on the train.

I've been around to hear:
- Internet being called a dayfly, by my country's infrastructure minister
- Mobile phones being called a yuppie cuddle, referring to that only young stockbrokers will ever have one, because only they can afford to pay that much and then bother to carry around something that heavy
- Smartphones and mobile data being called useless, since no-one will ever want to type on so small buttons instead of the big full size computer keyboard connected with a nice Cat4 cable

- And finally, we all heard JP Morgan's CEO call bitcoin stupid, same day as his company launched their own blockchain, and two days before JP Morgan bought the dip in Stockholm last night (I'm Swedish, this is real)


VR will have the same journey - I've never been so certain in my life about an emerging tech. I'm on the train. Feels good.

It is definitely real. I'm Swedish. Here is the full screenshot and the link. It shows the same right now.
Nordnet is very reputable. The financial instrument is a Bitcoin tracker.



https://www.nordnet.se/mux/web/marknaden/aktiehemsidan/kursdata.html?identifier=109538&marketplace=11&inhibitTrade=1

This is soooooo FUNNY !!!!!!

Haha, true! Thank you for that.
To my defense, I had an account here in the early days :-) Good to be back.

Dear all,

let me share a few words of why I decided to support this project.

My experience from many years within the telecom sector taught me something very important: Fundamentally new technology is the opposite of a zero sum game. It is not about gaining relative grounds on each other.

It is all about collaboration and growing the industry as a whole, and if done well, the industry will grow by a factor thousand or even a million times. I also learned that analysts usually underestimate the magnitude of new technology impact, since we simply cannot imagine how fundamentally the world will change. Anyone who has experienced the impact of mobile telephony, the smartphone, Internet or now the emerging crypto tech knows that is true. It will be true for VR as well. My estimate for the VR sector growth is well beyond the typical analyst +1000% estimate to 2020.

I instantly fell in love with the demos created by the VIBEHub team. I feel that both the the music concert holoport and the high quality social museum is exactly what the VR industry needs to show the world right now.

The LiveTourLAB VR framework on WebVR is very much a here-and-now entry ticket for anyone to create and experience interactive cinematic / recorded VR today. It works to get more people on-board on the VR train and we saw that it can complement VIBEHub's bleeding-edge top-end rendered tech. VIBEHub now has access to our framework, expertise and early feature roadmap.

I also liked both Mathew and Alessio from the first contact. I felt they have done this out of love for VR, music and technology, with a real product, real technology and real contact network in the music industry. Many others just have an idea in a whitepaper. Call me old school but I like results and execution.

When my children grow up, media will be the same as VR. I feel that I have a personal responsibility to do what I can to shape VR into a truly active experience, which fuels our imagination and helps us to be more present in the moment. I think that the VIBEHub team is doing a great service to the VR industry and I genuinely feel that they deserve all our support in moving the VR industry forward, for everyone’s benefit.

Anders Larsson, Co-Founder and Lead Developer LiveTourLAB