2016 Predictions results show

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2016 Predictions results show
Number 2935
Broadcast Date DECEMBER 29, 2016
Episode Length 37:15
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Veronica Belmont, Patrick Beja, Justin Robert Young, Darren Kitchen, Len Peralta, Jennie Josephson

The DTNS team looks back on their predictions for 2016 to see how close they got.

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Predictions

  • Bold = Correct!
  • Italic = Close
  • Regular = Wrong/no credit

VERONICA BELMONT PREDICTIONS

  • VR industry fixes the motion sickness issue that keeps Veronica out of VR gaming.
  • All the things people tried to do in Second Life will start happening in VR in 2016.
  • Personal (smart) software bots will inhabit every platform and piece of software (Veronica joined a company dedicated to this!)
  • Someone will die on one of those "bullcrap" hoverboards (scott agrees) (Take your victory you ghoul!)

PATRICK BEJA PREDICTIONS

  • Facebook will launch VR chat app - will probably suck at first, people will not use it at first.
  • (The Slack bubble will burst.) (Everyone else: Slack will rule the world.) WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
  • There will be a serious instance of non-state sponsored cyber terrorism
  • The Nintendo NX will launch before the end of 2016 and it will have Zelda as a launch title (double launching w/ Wii U) (Scott agrees) (So close!)

SCOTT JOHNSON PREDICTIONS

  • One day artists like Scott and Len will be able to draw in 3-D space, walk around drawings, paint with hands, create a virtual palette and canvas to work on and then hit a button and have it print, or be sent to client, or whatnot. Becomes a virtual maker space which is then translated in the real world.
  • I believe that in the next year, Facebook will have some sort of search product that encourages people to stay, but also gives you information from the outside world. (FRAAAAAAAMES) (Veronica disagrees)
  • Mad Max gets an Oscar nomination

DARREN KITCHEN PREDICTIONS

  • We will see the emergence of not quite game, not quite movie entertainment products like "Star Trek holonovel" will also see the first ever IP lawsuit regarding VR - DMCA takedown, or somesuch.
  • SpectacleFest will be cancelled
  • NO VR from Apple in 2016
  • DOT and FAA will accept recommendations of Task Force, will have a registration exception for 250 grams or 8.8 oz, until there's an "incident" with an unregistered drone centered around size and thrust. (Half credit)
  • Export control will be put in place on Quantum encryption

JUSTIN ROBERT YOUNG PREDICTIONS

TOM MERRITT PREDICTIONS

JENNIE HAS ONE TOO

  • "Blank rooms" will start to be a feature of some homes - with only the monitor and the VR hardware, with blank walls for sensors and no other furniture. (Metric for success: NYT article)

LEN PREDICTIONS

CONSENSUS PREDICTIONS

  • VR lawsuit

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Preceded by:
"Listener-Co-Host Show"
2016 Predictions results show
Followed by:
"Predictions for 2017"