Meta's VR prototypes, the best earbuds for phone calls, and our dream E Ink device

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The Vergecast is now the flagship podcast of twice-a-week podcasts. Our new Wednesday episode digs even deeper into The Verge’s reporting and the products you care about. And it launches today! 03:00 - David Pierce talks with Adi Robertson about Meta's VR prototypes she previewed. 19:44 - Chris Welch tests a bunch of wireless earbuds to find out which has the best phone call quality. 40:44 - Alex Cranz and David discuss what their dream E Ink device is, and why it still doesn't exist. We’re going to do a lot of experimenting on this show, so I hope you’ll tell us what you like and don’t like. Email us at [email protected], we'd love to hear from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's your friend David Pierce.
0:05.8	I am out walking my dogs, Finn and Frida, who I'm confident you will get to know over
0:10.5	the course of this podcast.
0:11.5	They're very loud and have strong feelings about things.
0:13.6	Anyway, we're out before the Verge Cast recording, which, as you know, is the flagship
0:17.2	podcast of automatically refilling dog balls.
0:19.8	Today on the show, Addy Robertson and I are going to talk about a big new set of VR
0:23.5	headsets that Meta just showed off.
0:25.5	Chris Welch and I are going to test some headphones and see which ones you should and shouldn't
0:28.7	use to make phone calls.
0:30.2	And Alex Cranzen and I are going to build ourselves the perfect eating device and try to figure
0:34.4	out why no one else will build it for us.
0:36.5	All that coming soon, we'll get to that in just a minute.
0:38.8	Let me finish walking these unbelievably slow dogs and we'll get right to it.
0:43.3	This is the Verge Cast.
0:44.3	Thank you.
1:13.2	What for today's show comes from Slack?
1:15.6	A digital HQ in Slack brings your teams, partners and tools together in one space.
1:21.4	Slack helps companies stay flexible, accelerate projects and keep teams aligned, so work
1:27.1	just works.
1:28.4	How exactly?
1:30.2	Organized projects in channels work across time zones with huddles and clips and even
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