It's an event that a lot of people can't participate in. You can't get in here if you are just a regular person. But with the enabling power of the Internet, you can feel it, you can touch it, you can get a sense of what it feels like.

The first thing that goes wrong in TV is always sound. Figuring out how to make the right blend of sound to go back into the computer, sorting out which video source is displayed with sound -- those were challenges. Over time, we figured out how to blend environments without feedback or delay.

I basically fired my entire staff today.

I think we will get a lot of interest, but I don't think the standard will be the number of people. It's going to be what the experience is, and hopefully a fair amount of people will come to see it.

We're trying to create something new. Something that is not television but uses a little bit of television and a lot of the Internet; something that couldn't exist on television.

It worked, and that taught us something about spatial display of information -- it's possible to do things that aren't linear.