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George Norry back when you play curious with us talking about his work the history of the future his website is his name linked up at Coast to Coast AM dot com least we forget Blake Steven Jobs who brought in John Sculley to run Apple Computer and Scully had Stephen tossed out. The challenge I will be totally shocked if one day down the line on a return Oculus him to wait and resurrect that company the way he did for a full reality. Of the speeches but never yet having that many requests on its point. Talk like the personalities of so often seems to happen you know if you're buying it hopefully for someone to carry Still that seems weird to sort of then there seems to happen over and over Yeah I mean create a little Department for them or something you know and pay them off but you don't have to fire them all. A really the sad ending you think about what could have been doing to fix it because you might if I could share what I found. I was just going to ask you what was the aspect of your research into the story. Thank you and this relates to why I felt some emphatic about politics being court issues with it you know that David broke that promise I did at that time supporter It happened at a Daily Beast article headlined Facebook billionaire secretly funding trumped me machine and the insinuation with it every terrible media could see online during the 26th election season you know situation can't. Fix things I think everything bad you seen upon it was the guy funding all this that's obviously absolutely untrue. But you know and so it created a new cycle where that story came out and every other as I have ever had story a little bit worse I feel impelled to. And the list of just you know are being a former journalism students you know you want to correct the story I just posted it when distance happened say Here's actually what you and so former Here's what the organization I donate to it actually doing and here's why I support it I here's why if some supporter here and you know a lot of it was reasoned like your 1st guest that you're just talking about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East you know. What I believe in peace I didn't want that anyway. And you know everything is fixed and all that we've had over the past year is that asked for it being exposed or if you're going to wear the case next experts never at the center of it I would say intentional or or you know the we the state. Yet I finished case the thing that shocked me with that was not allowed to post to him to exploitation 5 suppose you everyone thought it was not allowed to post his letter or the statement that he wrote instead he had to post a statement that was written directly by Mark Zuckerberg and the statement said that he'd be voting for Gary Johnson so you're not allowed to say he was a libertarian I'm a libertarian and and when I 1st noticed that something was fishy it's because having spent 3 years writing this book I was very familiar with Palmer's writing style and in particular he does this thing that I find very annoying though I think I mean when one actually you know after a period uses 2 spaces before starting the next sentence if I use one you know I think it is the top you're supposed statistic to say that that's just a common way to date but the state and every time Holder post anything on Facebook you know uses 2 spaces after period the state many posts that they only used one so that was my 1st clue that it was not written That's right yeah I did I ended up finding out that it it written directly by Marc and I was just talking to me yes. Maybe also shifted earlier that I don't share the same politics as Palmer I'm very much not a fan of down from but I am a big fan of everyone in the sport the candidate of choice they why I should have the right to support they were absolutely absolutely and I just wasn't the case you want to. Yes really did are really sad but also you know really revealing I think that it just shows you a lot about the media world we live in and look at all of these tech companies. You know it it's sad you know I guess I'm not totally 2nd almost and I put at the end but it was only ended. Firstly love and love back to us not. To subsidiary of Facebook it's part of the it's part of the old Alps it's actually no longer a company it's just the brands which I think most take it and realized you know nobody actually works I just mean when you work for Facebook so do you ever need it over there right to get a stake purchased the company. And then you get the side of the book it was a clip from Mad Men where you also can tell Don Draper that you never say thank you and he's upset about it and he said that's of the money is for and you know Facebook acquired to us and I did and I still have a what the thing I found a little unfair that that was that odd you know much of Polish money was tight he left a note for 5 years sell it back in the money that he had change for the new. Go to the phones for your money yes it's got a Carlos in San Francisco icon Let's go ahead you're on with play carer's Good evening good morning gentlemen it's a very interesting discussion I agree with a lot of what your your guests the saying in my question refers to the insights that you might have I believe the accounts of the virtual reality technical space I do want to comment to someone who has experienced successful on being a private placement and institutional investment capitalization adventures that were related in the tech field usually it's just an illogical differences between the consortium of investors whether to send the kind of thing investors or what not and you know you may have a founder with an interesting idea but the founders iteration of the idea was going to take the bench or into a completely different trajectory then why it was acquired as part of a portfolio of a bigger company. So they may have a different vision than what was the initial novelty that was inspired they had the founder to to develop the company and they may have some reference to the application to expand an overall offering that may evolve once they get certain milestones in the future of the acquiring venture or that having been said my question with regards to the space of virtual reality is. I think huge implications for post-traumatic stress disorder recovery with the application of immersive environments with the V.A. Are the forks and I'd like your get the speak to that and more specifically I'd also like your guest if he could speak to what his insights are with the evolution and instead incorporation of work for ality educational warms I mean I can see and I'm surprised that a company like bikes a walk at all or or Pearson who makes most of the educational content why they're not in the game immersive space is to somehow enhance and amplifying the content of their educational materials and those are my questions her good questions indeed go ahead. You are an expert in faith that you know that's a good point about. Potential defensive trajectories and didn't you know that it's a question to education think and that is often 1st and it comes to mind 1st and if you don't like me I'll add this to revolutionize education like I'm talking about history you actually put people in a civil war. In there and you're right and like you know what's better than a textbook is getting there but I would also say what's better than a textbook to the video and we never really addressed that much in terms of having like editor in textbooks or things like that and I think a lot of it is just. The status quo is the way to go if so whether it's just so you think maybe McGregor would want to take us forward facing to change it and maybe it's like a blockbuster sort of model where you know if any pro get done fix it no reason to take the risk Ah but if there is going to be a big win or some take it in meditation I think education and finding other ways to connect with people like you said is a big important direction for that technology to take off but you know it's hard with every state had different you know the education system so in that it's really hard to bring the. Things to the forefront again maybe you know will be you know sort of online classes maybe a snake on my sort of thing keeping in virtual reality and then the comment or question about post-traumatic stress disorder and using obviously an American and this to me feel that it is totally in it's own point important you know in the 1st chapter in a book before Oculus even started you know he talks about how plumber had been a lab technician at U.S.C. And next Reality Lab which is one of the few places in America where they actually stole it virtual reality research and one of the programs that it was called Brain of mind and it was about equipping soldiers a piece yesterday with X. To help them work through their experiences so I think that if they can find what useful tool for the 1st soldier then and I think it will continue to be you know it's also a way to keep costs down and really and also help to been solution for each person you can really intimate individual life in a lot more. Is going to be just huge for the programmers people. Like that. Absolutely I mean let's take sort of the 2 ways that I think you can differentiate you know isn't it a triple no one could resist it but does it go to a lay person like myself and you know the sort of. Like it cinematic in virtually all experiences which is oftentimes a 360000000 which could be like let's say Yes your daughter and her 10th birthday and you just plant a little camera in the center of the room and grandma from a far away can can watch it and feel like she's there and it's also recorded a memory and it you know it one of the cool things about that is it you know if you were actually at this party you know you spoke with certain people and you only had a certain view of the atmosphere but if you watch it if you you know reached a 7 to 3 and just your face you can walk to other areas of the room that you know if you're actually everything you can. So you see all giving season and gin to the 1st time in this sort of cinematic movie like experience it and there's more like Pixar anything interesting since we went to the games are many simulations like that but eventually they're going to converge at the 1st as a technology gets better and it gets more lifelike and it is not really an industry I see that can benefit from this. Is one of things I. Did for you to make the book was about how. Many nations was using virtual reality short films to show like a Jordanian refugee camp so that even the way to get somebody to consider donating money because their state and to see it was immediately started by just putting a gun like you were there all night of course just because you were trying to explain the situation the applications are really kind of on your right you know programmers and something about 1st and the ones who are really going to benefit the most. Even North Carolina. Yet for sure. But. The reality of. Thanks and. Then Korea. Ever thought about. That remember her you know what they. Remember believe it was the fact that you know right. That they were there. They were very. Rich or unlimited amount. Were very very bright prankster. And it was a Burke girl. Yeah yeah. 8 or one I'll remember. How effective they had right yes. Cheap way to spend. And that's where you get in did you know. Immediately the guy who discovers Palmer and changes his life is John Carmex the legendary game maker known for making games like him and quake and weapons fight and he once I said that he believes virtual reality was a moral imperative. For sort of that reason of you know not everyone can afford to live in places not everyone can afford access to to witness certain things when in a textbook and we are 1 level the playing field and to to the fullest you know just to get a nice to kick in. It. And you know last if we did the staycation at home. Evening gentleman or one or fine and I know everybody's what. I'm doing while I can anyway anyway I have a personal question I was wondering if Blake would be interested in ghost writing in my story. Because. I went to a patent lawyer what. An idea and. He stole your idea he thought. Yeah yeah money with it. Probably yeah everybody national T.V. Caring and Canada and. Not mention his name but what was what was the idea could you tell us that I am attic metrics interesting. Part after $911.00. Can people email you through your website Yes You Can Actually I well 1st of all I'm very sorry that you're in a stall and you know that very kind of people are the ones who come of ideas if I fall fall I'm being taken advantage of the absolute worst thing that could have been through that but yet feel free to you know me. Address on my website and. If I go and writing about this say you know I met it thank you for it or see if I can help in some other way that's really unfortunate OK in his website again is his name linked up and coast to coast. And back to Oculus for a moment so it's not like a division within Facebook is a generating revenue you know no it's not and as God He spent $202.00 plus 1000000000 years the buy a business and it's not generating revenue. Yet it's not even the stats may stand about $3000000000.00 to choir and I'm even tested at $3000000000.00 in the 5 years since. And that's a really big part of the reason why I feel it's just the sell Facebook. It's not a natural so it's offical partner but there for me out it can be really really really expensive and this way they could you know afford to take off and I mean did we I think if it did not for the Facebook they probably just would have imploded I just did a lack of funding right or they would have had to go public on their own if they could but what kind of revenue they had to get points. C.N.N. Money markets continue to. Money into this that you know the results have not been there even by their own expectations. You know the video being stubborn or maybe a feeling of a visionary or maybe it was part of the larger play 1st base book just in case and I guess it is and they can afford a lot of just in case things give me so much money and they have such a dominant share of the ad market is virtual reality. That's part of. It in some program that in something that I feel it has been doing that they deserve credit for the Facebook deserves credit for it they have made a lot of outreach to education there are a lot of programs where they send headsets to and I try to get people involved so you know like I said earlier it's hard because there's no sort of standardized way to to get it into the system and a uniform matter but that is something you know it's tried it we're trying to do Facebook activists have been a big effort of trying to get into to school Phelim and to school to middle schools and get kids familiar technology and getting them to it these places that they're reading about. I'm sure there must be many other. Labor the fomented of many you would think if you get to the point that you keep making just a lack of revenue. I think they've had other big fear that that planner and other co-founders about this ad with it if it is be proved this technology was successful enough to generate a lot of revenue it the big guys would just jump in and that somebody would really get in a big way Sony that we have already and what they're up play with the Playstation 4 and then a technical side here but I actually you know I yet to enter the virtual reality I meant