Chief Operating Officer, Triumph
Search every verified Mike Boland interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Mike Boland, Chief Operating Officer at Triumph, has been active in discussions on emerging technology and local economic trends. In a 2017 interview, Boland compared the state of virtual reality to the early iPhone era, noting that the industry faces a "chicken-and-egg dilemma" where limited hardware adoption constrains content development and vice versa. He predicted that price competition, such as Oculus Rift's bundle price cut, would help address this, and argued that augmented reality would ultimately be a larger opportunity than VR due to its potential for all-day use across commercial sectors like retail and manufacturing. Boland advised VR companies to focus on accessible platforms like Google Daydream and Gear VR rather than high-end hardware. Boland has also spoken about the "uberification" of local services, describing the on-demand economy as a transformation not seen since the commercial internet emerged. In a 2015 webcast, he discussed the rise of mobile-driven demand aggregation and its impact on how people work and buy. Separately, in a 2015 presentation on sustainable park management at the Presidio of San Francisco, Boland detailed the Presidio Trust's efforts to achieve financial self-sufficiency, reforest with disease-resistant trees, and create programs like a fish amnesty station to balance ecological stewardship with public use.
“I like to say that we're in an iPhone one moment right now with VR — you probably remember the iPhone one in 2007, there were only 17 apps on it for the first year until 2008 when the App Store came out, and from that point forward a third‑party developer ecosystem started to do creative things built on that hardware f...”
“There's a classic chicken‑and‑egg dilemma: there aren't enough apps yet to sway the masses to buy the hardware, and conversely there's not enough hardware out there for app developers and content creators to justify the business case of investing in all that content.”
“We just saw Oculus Rift at GDC lower its pricing for the Touch controllers bundled with the headset, so I think we're going to start to see that price competition and then more content that kind of chips away at that chicken‑and‑egg dilemma.”
“AR I think it's going to be bigger but it's going to come later — it's going to be more applicable to a wider range of commercial areas such as commerce and retail and manufacturing and design.”
Setting the Context - Sustainable Park Management at the Presidio of San Francisco; Michael Boland, Chief Planning, Projects, ...
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