Brendan Iribe Quotes

I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.

I absolutely love VR.

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.

You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.

All of my fellow directors, I think, would agree that in whatever medium you are working, the challenges and obstacles push them to be more creative. That's the case with VR.

What's really astounding to me is a lot of the guys at Oculus VR and other companies who were creating VR tell me that 'Ready Player One' is one of their primary inspirations in getting into virtual reality.

The Internet is getting so big, and people are inventing so many amazing things and new experiences. I never thought 'Coco' would have a VR game, and it was very cool to experience. I remember throwing a paper airplane even though there wasn't actually anything in my hand.

Much of the excitement about virtual reality has come from the gaming community.

A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this?

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.

I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.

Shall I project a world?

People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!