And this icon in the user interface
community walks up to me and just out of nowhere just gives me this huge
bear hug and he says, that was from Andy. And that was when I thought, ok,
maybe I can make it. Maybe I do
belong.
* walk
up to: to approach someone directly
ex> I’m not brave enough to just walk
up to someone and start talking.
* out
of nowhere: unexpected; appearingly as if by magic
ex> The money Tracey needed appeared out
of nowhere in his bank account.
ex> Tommy’s mother appeared out of
nowhere right when he was about to break the window.
* make
it: to succeed:
ex> If you really want to make it,
you have to sacrifice your free time.
And a similar story is that hits was
just this unbelievable hit because, at the time, everybody needed a half a
million [dollars] to do virtual reality. And everybody felt frustrated. And we
literally hacked together a system
for about five thousand dollars in parts and made a working VR system.
* hack
together: to quickly piece something together
ex> We hacked together a
shelter during our hike to protect us from the thunderstorm.
Note> If you “hack into” something,
you gain unauthorized access to data or system in a computer.
And so I’m giving this talk and the room
has just gone wild, and during the Q and A, a guy named Tom Furness, who was
one of the big names in virtual reality at the time.
* big
names: famous people
ex> The big names in business
meet for an economics meeting in Switzerland every year.
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