4.6 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | You know, it's funny because my wife worked for a company that, for a while, that did, like, |
0:04.1 | hardware and software for, like, sound and light control for live performances. And a lot of |
0:09.7 | their stuff was built using the Unreal Engine. And so, like, during COVID, they're sort of |
0:14.3 | saving grace, because obviously, like, all live events shut down, was that it could also be used |
0:18.5 | for things for, studio performance studio recordings |
0:22.0 | awards shows things of that nature like you could control this stuff that would be filmed on a |
0:25.9 | sound stage and it's like so there is you could see how there was maybe a business idea there |
0:29.8 | of these sorts of like virtual things being as good as possible but like none of that was meant |
0:34.4 | to be the permanent fucking situation. |
0:39.0 | It was just a stand in foreign. |
0:43.5 | You couldn't do stuff in person because literally like we couldn't. |
0:47.5 | There wasn't a way to do it without massively spreading COVID and there wasn't a vaccine yet and so on and so forth. And it feels like some of this stuff like is half dumb tech guy Facebook meta buzz shit, you know, that people have just believed too hard but also like |
0:57.0 | completely misreading the situation that like stuff that was being you know developed and there was |
1:03.3 | demand for in 2020 was just how things were going to be forever that basically oh cool we've got we've |
1:08.5 | got the most accurate version of The Sims ever. |
1:11.7 | No one's ever going to want to talk to another human being ever again. |
1:14.8 | And it's like, that's not really the case. |
1:16.5 | It's sort of designed by and for the like five people in the world who really enjoyed the lockdowns, you know. |
1:24.4 | You also are huge Aaliyah fans, apparently. |
1:27.1 | Yeah, I mean, they haven't seen much new music, you know, because they were kind of like |
1:31.1 | privately locking down before this. |
1:32.6 | I mean, this is going to be helpful for like, whatever the next pandemic is, you know, |
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