To many, VR is the ‘uber OS’ – the screen to replace all screens. But really, its capabilities are far more significant. If you own the VR layer the way Facebook owns mobile web, you control and administrate everything: identity, connection, payments, data, entertainment, information, interaction. If all existence is in a world you control, you can’t not make money – everything, even physics, are under your control. To put it another way, do you think God would struggle to monetize?

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