So in addition to a much lower entry-level price for actually getting into a VR headset, users also won't need to pony up for a super expensive rig for them to connect to.
There are much lower barriers to entry, particularly for start-ups without large marketing budgets.
SezWho has a more basic offering compared with Disqus or Intense Debate, but with a much lower point of entry.
I'd still argue that Twitter has an inherent advantage over Facebook because it is so much simpler to use, resulting in a much lower barrier to entry.
Small companies and startups looking to get into AI now have a much lower barrier to entry, whereas large traditional companies can build out their own proprietary machine learning algorithms for use within the organization without an outrageous upfront investment.
Ijji.com's offering are a step above the true online casual gaming offered by startups such as Kongregate, but they're got a much lower barrier to entry than say Second Life or Project Entropia.
"For freelancers, there's a much lower barrier to entry when it comes to getting back to work after having a child," says Alexandra Levit, author of They Don't Teach Corporate in College.
And because they don't have to work on any sort of arrangement to get their deal placed in an app like Foursquare, there's a much lower barrier to entry for these venues.
Because of the rise of e-commerce and digitally native direct-to-consumer startups and a much lower barrier to entry for forming a company there's a good chance that you have far more competitors today than you would have had a few decades ago.
This means that GridIron has a much lower barrier to entry (which is going to be key, as it's a Facebook game), but the experience is less immersive, as everything is constrained to the Flash pane within Facebook in your browser.
