72: The State of the (Virtual) Union

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🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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It's time for a check-in on the health of VR, including the latest in headsets and controllers, standout games and productivity software, the open-sourcing of Tilt Brush, our amazement that Windows Mixed Reality still exists, and the potential for AR to eventually supplant the whole thing anyway. You knew we'd find an excuse to use that photo eventually. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Hey, we didn't do a cold open last week.
0:03.5	We broke procedure.
0:05.0	We violated protocol.
0:07.0	Does that mean we owe them two this week?
0:08.6	I don't know.
0:09.1	How do we do two cold opens back to back?
0:10.9	Wouldn't they just be?
0:12.1	One would be warmer than the other, I think.
0:14.0	Damn it.
0:14.7	This is definitely this podcast when both of our brains immediately went to.
0:19.5	Well, the friction of speaking for
0:21.7	more than three minutes would probably warm the temperature of the opening enough. So there's a cold
0:27.9	open and a lukewarm opening. So I'm sure you've talked about there's a lot of weird stuff
0:32.6	happening right now in the world. There's there's, Reddit is destroying hedge funds, but maybe not.
0:39.5	And now they're, like, there's some financial chicanery happening.
0:45.0	That whole thing seemed a little bit illegal to me, but then when people explain to me how
0:48.7	hedge funds worked, I was like, oh, that should be illegal too.
0:51.1	So, um, legality.
0:54.1	Legality largely is, it seems, is defined by what you can get away with.
0:58.5	Yeah, the old wink and nod carries you a long way.
1:00.9	If you have a few billion dollars in the bank, it turns out.
1:03.1	Yep.
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