RE: Weekend Focus !25 Aug 2018 14:05
Sony have been betting on VR arguably more anybody else over the past few years.
I hope the bod keep hold of this golden ticket for as long as they can. A good number of big players have a slice of the pie here, and this seems fairly evenly distributed between them. This should hopefully guard against any cheap buyout.
Broadcast.com sold to Yahoo for $6b in 1999 - their service was to audio stream live events across the interview, when the internet was still in it's infancy. If we start streaming live events in VR across all these venues we're signing up (theatre, comedy, live sports further down the line), I think £1 per share will look very cheap, so I hope we can resist any early buy out, and keep building and signing deals for at least the next 3 years.
If we are looking at likely buyers though, NextVR are backed by some massive money. I have said before on here that they would be near the top of the list of likely buyers. Together with NextVR, it would create a VR streaming service that would join the list of recent established monsters, YouTube, Netflix and Spotify.
Hopefully they hold out though and keep building. Be there to ride the wave of incoming exponential growth that is speeding towards us.