Fri. 12/02 – Will 2023 Be The Year Of The Headset Wars?

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

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Mark Gurman has details on Apple ramping up development of its mixed-reality headset, targeting a launch next year. Elon has had to block his friend Ye from Twitter. Future is shutting down. Airplane mode might be a thing of the past soon. Is Nikola Tesla’s dream of wireless electrical transmission about to be a reality? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: InternetSociety.org/techmeme Storyblok.com/ridehome Links: Apple Renames Mixed-Reality Software ‘xrOS’ in Sign Headset Is Approaching (Bloomberg) Kanye West isn’t buying Parler after all (TechCrunch) Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down (Insider) Payments giant Stripe jumps into Web3 with tool that helps companies turn cash to crypto (Fortune Crypto) AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps (TechCrunch) No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights (BBC News) Silicon Valley startup beaming electricity wirelessly raises $30 million (Reuters) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Generative AI: autocomplete for everything (Noahpinion) Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI (The Atlantic) The Grown-Up Art of Andor (The New Republic) A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s (New Yorker) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Bride Home for Friday, December 2nd,
0:07.0	2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Mark Germin has details on Apple ramping up development of its mixed reality headset targeting a launch next year.
0:15.6	Elon has had to block his friend Yay from Twitter. Future is shutting down.
0:20.3	Airplane mode might be a thing of the past soon is Nikola Tesla's dream of
0:24.4	wireless electrical transmission about to be a reality and of course the week
0:28.4	on long-range suggestions here's what you miss today in the world of tech. I suppose Chris and I should probably do a
0:36.3	bonus episode this month where we look back at the news of 2022 but also
0:41.5	prognosticate on what we think we can expect from
0:44.2	2023 in the tech industry. But I'm going to go ahead and put a marker down
0:48.0	now that the headset wars are going to kick off in earnest next year.
0:53.0	We've already had Metas underwhelming high-end entrant to the
0:57.4	Headset Wars, though I believe the Meta-Quest 3 is also due next year.
1:01.5	We've got the PlayStation thing coming in a few months,
1:04.8	which crap, I forgot to pre-order that.
1:07.8	And actually, I know from some of the investing
1:10.1	I've been doing for the Ride Home Fund,
1:12.1	a lot of folks are probably going to make a play in the
1:15.1	AR VR space next year. Everyone from Samsung to players you might not expect. Why? Because Apple, as they are want to do, look like they're about to swoop in and define
1:26.7	the market.
1:27.7	Mark Germin has a note out saying that Apple has ramped up work on its mixed reality headset, set
1:32.4	to launch as early as next year.
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