Virtual Makeouts

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Virtual Makeouts
Number 2660
Broadcast Date JANUARY 6, 2016
Episode Length 53:11
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Scott Johnson, Patrick Norton

Is the Oculus Rift too expensive? Netflix releases for almost the entire planet. CES continues to spill forth announcements and Patrick Norton and Jennie Josephson help Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson make sense of it all.

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Headlines

It's CES folks. There are robots that serve drinks, Cortana showing up in Cyanogen on a OnePLus phone, LeTV the company that's funding Faraday Future putting out a snapdragon 820-powered phablet. But here are what we think are the most significant stories.
Netflix had its keynote at CES and ended by launching its service in 130 countries, meaning everyone on Earth can get it unless they live in China, North Korea, Syria or Crimea. Netflix also added support for Arabic, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese, with further languages in development. Netflix and LG are partnering to offer prepaid access to Netflix. We also got new sizzle trailers for Netflix originals The Crown and The Get Down.
Oculus opened up preorders for the Oculus Rift Wednesday morning as expected. For $599 you get the headset, an Xbox One controller, an Oculus Remote, and a place in line for touch controller preorders. It ships with Lucky’s Tale and access to EVE: Valkyrie, with a promise of more than 100 titles available by the end of the year, including Minecraft. Bundles including a Rift and Oculus-ready PC will be available in February for $1499. Shipping to 20 countries started at March 28th but has slipped later and later as the preorders pile up.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich gave the CES opening keynote by rolling in on a hoverboard which he revealed can transform into a personal robot part of an open platform coming to developers in the second half of 2016. It’s one of several products using Intel’s RealSense 3D camera including the Yuneec Typhoon H UAV and the augmented reality Daqri Smart Helmet with thermal vision coming Q1 2016, and the IonVR mobile headset that works with smartphones shipping early this year.. We also saw Radar Pace smartglasses in partnership with Oakley and a Smart sports watch from New Balance. Finally Intel promised increased diversity in the workforce and plans to combat online harassment.
Snapchat is shutting down its lens store on Friday, two months after launch. The lenses that let you do funny things to your snap chat videos will still show up with rotating selection of 10 lenses, but Snapchat will focus on its ad business including sponsored lenses.
The CES Fridgedex ramped up high with Samsung’s official announcement of its Tizen-powered refrigerator. An app from MasterCard lets you order groceries right from the 21.5-inch screen on the fridge door with combined carts from FreshDirect and ShopRite with more stores to come. The screen can mirror a Samsung Smart TV, cameras take pictures of the contents of the fridge for you and speakers can play music or send music to other bluetooth speakers. It’s coming to the US in May, no price announced yet.
Casio announced a new rugged Android Wear smartwatch called the WSD-F10. It features an LCD/LED touchscreen, one day battery life rugged case and band and internal altimeter, barometer and compass. It ships in spring for $500.
French tech company Withings unveiled the $69 coin shaped Go activity tracker. It features an e-ink display with up to 8 months battery life. The Go tracks steps, distance, running, sleep and swimming strokes, and automatically switches monitoring between them. It’s water resistant up to 5 atmospheres (about 50 meters underwater). Data is shared with the Withings Health Mate app for Android and iOS. The Go will be available Q1 2016.
Microsoft will end support for IE 8, 9, and 10 next Tuesday. On January 12th a final patch release will fix a few bugs and encourage users to upgrade to IE 11 or Microsoft Edge. According to the next web the nag screen can be bypassed in enterprise versions using the registry. 11 is the last supported version of IE.
Wired’s Andy Greenberg has an excellent writeup of a cryptography project from David Chaum discussed at Real World Crypto conference at Stanford Wednesday. The system called PrivaTegrity uses a new kind of mix network with nine serves, and is hoped to be more secure and efficient that Tor or I2P. And it allows backdoor decryption to stop criminals if and only if all 9 server administrators agree to cooperate. An alpha version of PrivaTegrity is in development for Android as an instant messaging app and is hoped to come out Q1 2016.
TechCrunch reports its sources say Facebook has given select developers access to an unannounced chat SDK to build helpful bots in Messenger for things like shopping, travel and more. Users can ask bots for information, buy things etc.
Dell announced new models for enterprise in its Latitude Ultrabook and InfinityEdge Display lines. One new display grabbing attention is the UltraSharp 24 and 23 wireless monitors which use Miracast and can display content from a Windows laptop and Android mobile device at the same time. They’ll be available March 31, starting at $469 and $429, respectively. Or you can drop $4,999 on the Ultrasharp 30 OLED Ultra HD 4K display.
Twitter has missed a deadline to pay a 150,00 lira fine (US$50,000) levied by the BTK communications technologies authority for not removing content the Turkish government called “terrorist propaganda.” Reuters reports Turkey’s Transport Minister Binali Yildirim (Bee-nal-ee Yild-a-rim) says the government will not give up its demand.
General Motors unveiled the fully electric Chevy Volt today and it’s a real car not a concept. It’s built on its own architecture not borrowed from another car. It has a range of more than 200 miles and a price of about $30,000 after $7500 in US tax credits. It also has a 10.2-inch touch screen and pops up customized set ups based on which phone is connected to bluetooth. The companion app syncs via Bluetooth, LTE, and a BLE connection with a up to 100 yards of range. It can charge to within 80% in an hour. And of course it’s gamified with leaderboards so your friends who have Volts can compete with you on things like miles per charge. The 2017 Bolt EV will be in production this year.
We joke sometimes that every year we see the same things shown at CES. But two items are pushing the boundaries. Panasonic announced details of new Technics turntable, the SL-1200G coming in a special edition in summer and then wide availability in late 2016. And Kodak announced new Yves Behar designed super 8 cameras coming this autumn priced between $400 and $750, along with a road map for film development and post production tools.

Discussion

Pick of the Day

I stumbled upon this website that analyzes the reviews submitted on Amazon and reports back on the likelihood that the reviews may be fake.

It's Fakespot.com. I tested it with a few products that I have bought and reviewed myself, and the results are really interesting. It returns a result reported as the percentage of likelihood that the reviews are genuine. It also provides data as to how that percentage result was calculated, sample reviews, and even a "word cloud" showing the most common terms used to describe the product.

There is a Chrome extension for this website, but I haven't tried it. (Personal preference - I tend not to use them.)

Yours for what it's worth!
Submitted by Lisa Boban

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Tonight on DTNS I heard about the Nikon 360-degree camera.

You guys didn't mention an existing product it competes with, the Ricoh Theta S, which released in October. That is also a dual-lens, 360-degree, compact, consumer-grade still and video camera. (I got myself one for Christmas.)

The Nikon KeyMission has better specs: it is ruggedized, and it shoots 4k video, not just 1080p. I didn't find its still-image (photosphere) resolution online.

I think 4k might still be too low-rez for capturing the full sphere: you only get an "impressionist" view of the action. With my 1080p Ricoh Theta S, I shot a beach volleyball game from one of the net poles. You can see the players clearly, but you can't recognize faces. The pixel density of 4k is only double 1080p in each dimension, probably still not very clear.

https://theta360.com/en

Great show!

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Sent by Allan in California

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