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Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market

Name: Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market
Uploaded: 2020-07-21T21:48:06.400Z
Duration: 35 min 45 s
Description: AR is in the “installation phase” of a technology cycle, where core infrastructure and tooling must be built before applications can explode. Timing is driven by reuse of mobile hardware, power-efficiency gains (Koomey’s law), and wireless bandwidth growth (Edholm’s law).

From Y Combinator · Published Jul 21, 2020 · Watch on YouTube

TL;DR

AR is in the “installation phase” of a technology cycle, where core infrastructure and tooling must be built before applications can explode. Timing is driven by reuse of mobile hardware, power-efficiency gains (Koomey’s law), and wireless bandwidth growth (Edholm’s law).

Key insights

AR is not a single discipline; it requires computer vision, graphics, real‑time systems, distributed systems, hardware, and optics.
Technology cycles have two stages: installation (infrastructure/tooling) and deployment (application explosion). AR is currently in installation.
AR benefits from the mobile supply chain (sensors, cameras, SoCs) and Moore’s law for compute, but the critical law is Koomey’s law: every 18 months the same computation uses half the power.

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