From CNET: Soon after Matthew Mengerink became YouTube's engineering chief a few weeks ago, he got a taste of some of the virtual reality footage Google has been working on but hasn't yet released to the public.
"I saw stuff that just melted my brain," Mengerink said Tuesday in his first interview since joining the Google-owned video site.
He won't go into detail about what he saw but gives general examples of the kinds of things VR can do, like taking you cycling through the Alps while you're really just on your exercise bike. Or letting you stomp around the city pretending to be Godzilla.
The world's top tech companies, from Facebook to Samsung, have become enamored with virtual reality. Once mostly the dream of video game makers, Silicon Valley has expanded the vision for the technology, an industry worth an estimated $7 billion.
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