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Mark's Metaverse, Open As In Microsoft - DTNS 4374

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Google is building a video chat booth based on the company’s Starline holographic system announced last year at Google I/O. We analyze details from a Verge post about what Mark Zuckerberg thinks “open” means. And Microsoft decides to rebrand Office.


Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Lamarr Wilson, 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 Justin Zellers, Pepper Geese,

0:36.0

and Eric Home.

0:37.0

Coming up on DTNS, Google makes a room-sized machine

0:41.0

that can do 3D avatars well.

0:43.0

Mark Zuckerberg's definition of open may be a little different

0:46.0

than yours.

0:47.0

And Microsoft's getting rid of the name office.

0:50.0

And we think it's a mistake.

0:52.0

At least I do.

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