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TechCrunch Daily Crunch

Daily Crunch 2/5/22

TechCrunch Daily Crunch

SpokenLayer

Tech News, Technology, News

3.849 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Spotify CEO hints HiFi tier delay is related to licensing issues; Meta adds ‘personal boundaries’ to Horizon Worlds and Venues to fight harassment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Here's your Daily Crunch. Why hasn't Spotify rolled out hi-fi yet?

0:59.0

The leading music streaming business in the world has yet to release the higher priced, higher quality

1:04.4

tier to its service, and it appears licensing is to blame.

1:08.3

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek hinted at it when speaking to analysts and investors during Spotify's quarterly and annual earnings

1:16.7

release last week. Ek said to investors, quote, many of the features that we talk about and especially

1:22.1

that's related to music ends up into licensing.

1:25.7

So I can't really announce any specifics on this other than to say that we're in constant dialogue

1:30.7

with our partners to bring this to market."

1:33.4

And Meta is rolling out a feature called Personal Boundary in its Horizon worlds and Horizon

1:39.4

Venues virtual reality spaces to combat harassment.

1:43.1

Each avatar will have a bubble with a radius of two virtual feet,

1:47.0

so they won't be able to come within around four feet of each other.

1:50.6

If someone tries to move into your personal space, their forward motion will halt when they get too close.

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