Virtual Reality

Neurotech for Control In the first part of this series on Consumer Neurotech, we established a framework for thinking about Consumer Neurotechnologies and their value propositions. With the initial groundwork laid, we can finally dig into the technologies themselves. Here,…

We pride ourselves on contrarian curiosity. When that curiosity leads us to new conclusions, we change our minds. As part of that exploration, the areas that we find most interesting evolve over time. What was once frontier eventually becomes commonplace.…

At Loup Ventures, we’ve been spending more and more time researching and reflecting on how everyday technology will leverage the human brain to provide value to users. We call this subject consumer neurotechnology, and we want to share some of…

During Gamescom 2018, Nvidia introduced its new GeForce RTX product line — three graphics cards ($499-$999) based on its new Turing architecture. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the line’s primary innovation, real-time ray tracing, the “holy grail of computer graphics.”…

At Loup Ventures, research is in our blood. The spirit of our team has always lived on the curiosity to discover new insights that yield investment opportunities. For years we did this on Wall Street, focused on public tech companies.…

Last Friday, Dave & Busters rolled out Jurassic World VR Expedition (JWVRE) at 114 locations, making it the most widely available location-based VR experience. We gave it a try and loved it. What’s unique is the combination of experience, duration,…

Dr. Ramses Alcaide is the CEO and Founder of Neurable, a Loup Ventures portfolio company focused on non-invasive BCI. Ramses earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the…

The core insight of science fiction is that all technologies live on a spectrum of good and evil, useful and harmful, and our perception of their place on that spectrum vacillates over time. It’s a truth that we've long known…

Conclusion. This week we’re attending F8, Facebook’s annual developer conference. We have been down on the Facebook story given the negative effects it has on society (i.e. most people don’t feel better after being on Facebook) have recently outweighed the…

We’ve been waiting two years for this. Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, based on the 2011 Ernest Cline novel of the same name, was released Thursday to much anticipation in the VR community. The story’s conflict plays out in two…

NVDA shares dropped 8% today on the announcement they temporary stopped autonomous testing and market sell off. While the company did not comment on timing, we expect testing to resume in the next 3 months. CEO Jensen Huang held a…

Virtual Reality, which remains a high-end tech gadget that has yet to gain mainstream traction, is often misunderstood in terms of the span of its use cases. As we mentioned in The Future of Retail, VR will allow consumers to…