I Put on My Robe and VR Hat
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| I Put on My Robe and VR Hat | |
| Number | 2877 |
| Broadcast Date | OCTOBER 12, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 40:42 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Scott Johnson |
Nolan Bushnell is behind a company that wants to sell football field size VR to the enterprise. Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson discuss that and whether they want to pay $4 to quote lyrics to their Amazon Echos.
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Top Stories
- Amazon launched their rumored Music Unlimited streaming service. The service will cost $9.99 per month or $7.99 a month if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber. That works across all devices including the Echo but if you ONLY need the service for the Echo you can choose to pay just $3.99. However you pay for the service, the Echo will have improved search integration with Music Unlimited, letting users ask for new and popular songs by mood, genre, decade or lyrics among others. The Amazon Music app will now pre-cache recommendations for offline listenings, as well as feature artist commentaries on tracks, called "Side-by-Sides." Amazon Music Unlimited is live in the U.S. today. It will debut in the U.K., Germany and Austria later this year.
- Pandora Plus launched Wednesday as well. Pandora Plus costs $4.99 a month and replaces Pandora One. It takes away ads and allows more skips, more replays and offline listening. --A true on-demand streaming service from Pandora launches later this year. Pandora also redesigned its P logo getting rid of the white part in the middle of the P.
- Samsung released revised earnings guidance for investors, taking into account the end of sales and production of the Galaxy Note 7. Q3 2016 projected operating profit was reduced 33% from prior guidance to 5.2 trillion won ($4.6 billion). This would represent a year-over-year decrease of 30%. And the first decline in a year. Overall revenue projection was reduced by 2 trillion won, down 4% to 47 trillion won ($41.8 billion). Meanwhile the New York Times reports that Samsung has not been able to reproduce the Note 7 problem and therefore cannot determine what has been causing it. It's possible the problem was not the battery as previously suspected. Samsung confirmed to Motherboard that Note 7 phones will not be repaired, refurbished, or resold.
- Microsoft announced its augmented reality Hololens headset will go on sale in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Developers can pre-order the headsets starting Wednesday, with shipment expected by late November. You can order a Development Edition for $3,000 or the Commercial Suite for $5,000 that includes better support, device management and enterprise features.
- A team of scientists at Tsinghua University have discovered a way to induce silkworms to produce thread that's 50-% stronger than silk and when heated to 1050 degrees celsius can conduct electricity. The worms were fed graphene or single-walled carbon nanotubes sprayed over a bed of mulberry leaves. The spray consists of 0.2% graphene or carbon nanotubes by weight, so it's believed it could be easily scaled up. Delicious. Team leader Dr. Yingying Zhang thinks the resulting silk could be used for durable protective fabrics, biodegradable medical implants, and ecofriendly wearable electronics among other things.
- Verizon tells Ars Technica that all operating system and security updates for its version of the Google Pixel phone will come at the same time as Google release them. Google confirmed the practice, telling Ars "OS updates and monthly security patches will be updated on all Pixel devices (Verizon and non-Verizon versions) simultaneously." Also the Verizon version of the Pixel will be sold carrier unlocked though it will have Go90, My Verizon and Verizon Messages apps preinstalled. All three can be removed.
Discussion
- Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell launches a VR company
- The creator of Atari has launched a new VR company called Modal VR
- MODAL VR
- SOFTWARE — MODAL VR
- Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell is making mobile games
- New SteamVR controller prototype lets you open your hands
Pick of the Day
- I wanted to share a product that my wife and family have been using to help solve the issue of shopping lists, Hiku, at http://hiku.us/
We have had this device now for about a year now and really love it.
It is the combination of a small little device that costs $59.00 and sits on the counter or can be left on the fridge (has a magnet) and allows you to speak to it to add something to a shopping list, or better yet scan the bar code on the item.
The list app then lets you organize by store, aisle and other ways to make your shopping experience easier. It is great as we now have our teenagers in the process too, and it is funny to hear "add pop tarts" coming from the kitchen.
The app syncs so when one of us is at the store we know what to get. You can also just re-add things easily from the list. It is very flexible.
This one has stuck for both my wife and I, thought others might like to give it a try. - Submitted by Charles
- I wanted to share a product that my wife and family have been using to help solve the issue of shopping lists, Hiku, at http://hiku.us/
Messages
- Tom and crew,
I don't think it should be understated how valuable it will be for Workplace to have a shared UI with Facebook. How often can businesses introduce a new workplace tool that almost all users will have familiarity with, if not expertise? I know the name Facebook might not sell to a lot of CEOs for a workplace tool, but I could also see the shared interface making the sales pitch that much easier, one less thing to have to learn. I see Slack in the same position that Twitter is in, great for power users, super extensible, but imagine introducing it to a business where most of the employees don't regularly use IM, it would appear at first to be an inscrutable mess, with arcane commands that aren't immediately apparent, thus leading to either lower buy-in, or more intensive training. While enterprise is always a weird beast for consumer companies to break into, I think Workplace has a pretty big advantage. - Sent by Richard J Stroffolino
- Tom and crew,
- Regarding how diversified Samsung is, when I was in South Korea, the airlines lost a bag, and I needed to buy underwear at 711. I looked today at who makes it. You show me a pair of apple undies. :-)
- Sent by R
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