Microsoft enters the metaverse race / Beats Fit Pro review / Apple’s software chief speaks out against sideloading

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Tom Warren discuss Microsoft's take on the metaverse at their Ignite event this past week. Verge editor Chris Welch joins to chat about his review of the Beats Fit Pro and Apple's third-gen AirPods. Stories from this week: Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings Microsoft is planning 3D metaverse apps for Xbox and gaming Microsoft Loop is a new Office app for the hybrid work era Microsoft’s GitHub CEO steps down Beats Fit Pro review: sporty AirPod Pros with better sound Beats announces Fit Pro earbuds with wing tip design and $200 price Apple AirPods (third-gen) review: new design, same appeal The best wireless earbuds to buy right now ‘Sideloading is a cyber criminal’s best friend,’ according to Apple’s software chief Verizon and AT&T delay crucial 5G expansion over aircraft interference concerns Facebook is shutting down its Face Recognition tagging program Instagram and Twitter finally make link previews work again Zillow reportedly needs to sell 7,000 houses after it bought too many Ford’s selling electric crate motors based on the one in the Mach-E The 2022 Volkswagen ID 5 is a sporty electric SUV with over 300 miles of range Gobble, gobble: GE Appliances wants you to trust its smart oven to cook the perfect turkey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week in the Vurchast, Alex Cran's Chris Welch and Tom Warren join the show we talk about
0:04.0	Microsoft's metaverse announcements. Yes, Microsoft go through Apple's new Beats, Fit,
0:09.4	Pro headphones might be better than AirPods Pro and a little lightning round of gadget news.
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1:10.7	Hello and welcome to the Vurchast, the flagship podcast of recording problems and the
1:18.3	metaverse. It's a two-for-one deal on the nation's favorite podcast today.
1:22.7	Huh? I'm your friend Neelay, Dieter bonus here. I'm a spreadsheet and a PowerPoint and a
1:28.2	document in a note in the metaverse. Oh boy. The enterprise metaverse is here, my friends.
1:33.4	Tom Warren is here to talk about it with us. Hello. I'm in a metaverse somewhere,
1:37.4	but I'm not a spreadsheet. Well, I can't see your legs. So you could be in the metaverse.
1:40.9	Oh, this show. Alex Kranz is here. If Zoom ever does avatars for the metaverse,
1:46.9	I'll be one of those. You can do it in Teams. This is the news. So there's like a bunch of stuff
1:51.5	happening this week that is all it's all the metaverse all the time now. We're going to talk about
1:57.6	Microsoft had an event. They did their unmetaverse stuff. There's some new headphones. Chris Welch is
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