Tim Sweeney Quotes

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality that we've all looked into for 30 or 40 years.

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

I believe that augmented reality will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.

Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.

Augmented reality will take some time to get right, but I do think that it's profound.

From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud.

Augmented reality will change the world more than a lot of other technologies. Traveling around to meet people will be much less important when you can stand in a room and chat with a virtual representation of a person that's so close to reality - it'll be a whole new level.

The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.

I believe AR is going to be the primary platform of the future for both work and entertainment.

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

Augmented reality will drive all things like chat, social networking, photos, videos, organizing data, modeling, painting, motion capture, and visual programming. Every form of computing will be combined together and unified in a single platform.

Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language.

It seems to me so much technology could be applied to entertainment. Augmented reality, and even just the iPad - touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.

The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their cellphone is in their glasses.