45 min
What Does Oculus Quest & VR Mean for Marketer’s in 2020? Explicit Content Podcast
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- Marketing
Hosts:
Jeff Julian
https://twitter.com/jjulian?lang=en
Joe Cox
https://twitter.com/joenormal
Explicit Content Podcast is Back! Jeff & Joe kick off the show and update everyone on what to expect this season.
Jeff & Joe will be tag teaming the hosting duties this season but expect to hear some of the same content marketing superstars from season’s past and new interviews from all over the interwebs. From Augmented Reality Artists to Social Scientists, fasten your seatbelts for Season 3 of The Explicit Content Podcast.
Jeff & Joe discuss the current state of marketing in the last quarter of 2019 and the place for both creativity and deep technological prowess.
We’re excited about a new partnership with DivvyHQ this season. The DivvyHQ team has been friends of ours for a long time. https://divvyhq.com/
They’ve been in the content game for a long time and have built a content planning and execution tool for content marketing teams BY a talented content marketing team.
Let’s jump into the podcast. We aren’t sidestepping the congressional hearing, but it’s not what this episode is about. Today we’re talking about Facebook’s Oculus Connect 6 conference that was held in San Jose last month. https://www.oculusconnect.com/
Why is this year any different than the last for Oculus? Last year we didn’t have the Oculus Quest, and that may be the hardware that changes everything. It’s time for marketers to pay attention and Jeff & Joe are going to explain why. https://www.oculus.com/quest/?locale=en_US
Jeff jumps into the history of VR, starting off in the 80’s & 90’s and gets to Oculus Rift and Facebook’s eventual purchase of the VR startup. https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2014/03/25/facebook-buys-oculus-virtual-reality-gaming-startup-for-2-billion/#1cfc30f62498
Though it wasn’t completely clear at first why a social network was interested in a VR headset that was both incredibly expensive, needed an expensive computer to run and needed a massive space and technology to even get the technology setup. VR had made leaps, but it was still just for the nerds.
VR did take marketing by storm, but it’s been in event marketing. In 2019, there’s probably not a large sporting event or conference that hasn’t had some sort of VR experience. https://mbryonic.com/best-vr-marketing/
Two years ago, Facebook releases its first wireless headset in the Oculus Go. It was underpowered and had very limited movement capabilities, but it did get rid of the need to jack into a large computer and the wires were gone. https://www.oculus.com/go/?locale=en_US
This year, Oculus released the Oculus Quest. It was somewhere in between. Not as powerful as the Rift, but much more capable than the Go, the Quest seemed to have hit the goldilocks zone of VR. Untethered with a much better experience the Oculus Quest came in at a $399 price point which put it in line with current gaming consoles from Sony, Nintendo & Microsoft.
Facebook has been steadily focused on one goal, to create a VR technology that breaks through to mass adoption.
Facebook is up to 180,000 unit sales and has reached the $100,000,000 mark on the Facebook marketplace. Just like Apple, Facebook plans to make a...
Hosts:
Jeff Julian
https://twitter.com/jjulian?lang=en
Joe Cox
https://twitter.com/joenormal
Explicit Content Podcast is Back! Jeff & Joe kick off the show and update everyone on what to expect this season.
Jeff & Joe will be tag teaming the hosting duties this season but expect to hear some of the same content marketing superstars from season’s past and new interviews from all over the interwebs. From Augmented Reality Artists to Social Scientists, fasten your seatbelts for Season 3 of The Explicit Content Podcast.
Jeff & Joe discuss the current state of marketing in the last quarter of 2019 and the place for both creativity and deep technological prowess.
We’re excited about a new partnership with DivvyHQ this season. The DivvyHQ team has been friends of ours for a long time. https://divvyhq.com/
They’ve been in the content game for a long time and have built a content planning and execution tool for content marketing teams BY a talented content marketing team.
Let’s jump into the podcast. We aren’t sidestepping the congressional hearing, but it’s not what this episode is about. Today we’re talking about Facebook’s Oculus Connect 6 conference that was held in San Jose last month. https://www.oculusconnect.com/
Why is this year any different than the last for Oculus? Last year we didn’t have the Oculus Quest, and that may be the hardware that changes everything. It’s time for marketers to pay attention and Jeff & Joe are going to explain why. https://www.oculus.com/quest/?locale=en_US
Jeff jumps into the history of VR, starting off in the 80’s & 90’s and gets to Oculus Rift and Facebook’s eventual purchase of the VR startup. https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2014/03/25/facebook-buys-oculus-virtual-reality-gaming-startup-for-2-billion/#1cfc30f62498
Though it wasn’t completely clear at first why a social network was interested in a VR headset that was both incredibly expensive, needed an expensive computer to run and needed a massive space and technology to even get the technology setup. VR had made leaps, but it was still just for the nerds.
VR did take marketing by storm, but it’s been in event marketing. In 2019, there’s probably not a large sporting event or conference that hasn’t had some sort of VR experience. https://mbryonic.com/best-vr-marketing/
Two years ago, Facebook releases its first wireless headset in the Oculus Go. It was underpowered and had very limited movement capabilities, but it did get rid of the need to jack into a large computer and the wires were gone. https://www.oculus.com/go/?locale=en_US
This year, Oculus released the Oculus Quest. It was somewhere in between. Not as powerful as the Rift, but much more capable than the Go, the Quest seemed to have hit the goldilocks zone of VR. Untethered with a much better experience the Oculus Quest came in at a $399 price point which put it in line with current gaming consoles from Sony, Nintendo & Microsoft.
Facebook has been steadily focused on one goal, to create a VR technology that breaks through to mass adoption.
Facebook is up to 180,000 unit sales and has reached the $100,000,000 mark on the Facebook marketplace. Just like Apple, Facebook plans to make a...
45 min