Can You Spell Metaverse Without VR? - DTNS 4375

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

While Google gets heat for scrapping high-profile endeavors like Stadia, operations like Google Fiber are quietly bouncing back. The Information has new details on Apple’s alleged upcoming mixed-reality headset. And Wired’s Steven Levy asks if the Metaverse would work better without the VR.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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0:00.0	A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.
0:04.0	Then I'm going to jump to a link.
0:05.0	Using the usual tech devices.
0:07.0	We have a plane device called our mouse.
0:09.0	Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.
0:11.0	Now we're connected audio.
0:13.0	You can see my work. You can point at it.
0:15.0	And I can see your face and we can talk.
0:17.0	Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda
0:20.0	for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.
0:24.0	The mother of all demos on no a little more.
0:27.0	Get it wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	Daily Tech News Show is made possible by its listeners.
0:33.0	Thanks to all of you, including Carmine Bailey, Vince Power,
0:36.0	and Rodrigo Smith Zapata.
0:39.0	Coming up on DTNS, Apple will let you pay with your eyes.
0:42.0	Google keeps a product going instead of killing it.
0:44.0	And do we even need headsets for the metaverse?
0:48.0	Maybe we don't.
0:53.0	This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, October 14th, 2022
0:56.0	in Los Angeles, downtown Marin.
0:58.0	And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane.
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