Andreessen Horowitz backs a lot of winners. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm invested early in Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb. But in 2013, when one of its partners first donned a virtual reality (VR) headset from a start-up named Oculus, the experience swept those giants aside. “I’ve seen five or six computer demos in my life that made me think the world was about to change,” Chris Dixon later told Wired. “Apple II, Netscape, Google, iPhone… then Oculus. It was that kind of amazing.”
Reported by Independent 7 hours ago.
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