Fri. 05/21 – Snap Is Dead Serious About This AR Stuff

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🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Snap releases its first true AR glasses, and buys the company that helped make them a reality. Is Netflix going to get into gaming to help juice growth in North America? Is the IRS going to crack down ever harder on Crypto? Twitter’s newly revamped verification system. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Skiff.org/ride Tovala.com/ride Links: Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality (The Verge) Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500 million (The Verge) Spotify finally adds offline music downloads on Apple Watch (The Verge) Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts (The Information) U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (CNBC) Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017 (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Now that WarnerMedia and Discovery have tied the knot, the pressure’s on ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal (CNBC) $ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales From the Fringe of the Crypto Craze (Bloomberg) Can Sony reclaim its former glory? (Engadget) How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air (Intelligencer) Twitter Thread About Shift+2 (@figmadesign) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, May 21st, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.6	Snap releases its first true AR glasses and then buys the company that helped make
0:15.0	them a reality. Is Netflix going to get into gaming to help juice growth in
0:19.9	North America? Is the IRS going to crack down even harder on crypto, Twitter's
0:24.5	newly revamped verification system, and of course, the weekend long read
0:27.9	suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:33.0	Snap held its annual Snap Partner Summit yesterday and the big news was the
0:39.0	unveiling of Snap's first AR glasses with four built-in microphones, two stereo speakers, and a touch pad,
0:47.0	quoting the verge.
0:48.8	On Thursday, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled the company's first true augmented reality glasses.
0:54.2	Technology that he and rivals like Facebook think will one day be as ubiquitous as mobile
0:58.4	phones.
0:59.4	A demo showed virtual butterflies fluttering over colorful plants and landing in
1:03.6	Spiegel's extended hand. The new spectacles have dual waveguide displays
1:08.6	capable of superimposing AR effects made with Snapchat's software tools.
1:13.5	The frame features four built-in microphones
1:15.6	to stereo speakers and a built-in touchpad.
1:18.6	Front-facing cameras help the glasses detect objects
1:21.4	and surfaces you're looking at so that graphics more naturally
1:24.9	interact with the world around you.
1:27.1	These spectacles, however, aren't ready for the mass market.
1:30.0	Unlike past models, Snap isn't selling them.
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