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Wed. 09/16 – Facebook Unveils The Oculus Quest 2

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Facebook unveils the Oculus Quest 2, as a part of its Facebook Connect (formerly Oculus Connect) event. Amazon Music gets podcasts. Spotify puts the Apple One bundle on blast. Developers have found yet another reason to get pissed at Apple. And AT&T is not only bringing advertising to HBO, they want to add ads to you phone as well. Sponsors: PayPal App ExtraHop.com/techmeme Links: Oculus Quest 2 delivers standalone VR with sharper 90Hz screens for $299 (Engadget) OCULUS QUEST 2 REVIEW: BETTER, CHEAPER VR (The Verge) Snowflake is largest software IPO ever (Axios) Amazon Music Joins Podcasting Fray (WSJ) Driver Charged in Uber’s Fatal 2018 Autonomous Car Crash (NYTimes) Spotify says Apple One bundle is a 'threat to collective freedom' (Apple Insider) Apple accuses Epic of ‘starting a fire and pouring gasoline on it’ in new Fortnite filing (The Verge) Apple surprised iPhone users with a next-day iOS 14 release. App developers are pissed. (Mashable) Exclusive: AT&T considers cellphone plans subsidized by ads (Reuters) AT&T Plans Lower-Priced Version of HBO Max With Advertising (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, September 16th, 2020.

0:08.0

I'm Brian McCullough.

0:09.2

Today, Facebook unveils the Oculus Quest 2, as part of its Facebook Connect formerly Oculus Connect event

0:16.5

Amazon Music gets podcast Spotify puts the Apple 1 bundle on blast

0:21.3

Developers have found yet another reason to get pissed at Apple.

0:24.1

And AT&T is not only bringing advertising to HBO, they want to add ads to your

0:29.3

phone as well. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:35.0

The Facebook Connect event, Nee, the Oculus Connect event until recently, kicked off mere moments ago from when I am speaking these words

0:44.7

into this mic. Mark Zuckerberg looked to be giving the keynote speech from what

0:49.5

seemed like his house in Hawaii maybe. He gave us a bunch of interesting tidbits like

0:54.4

Facebook is apparently working with Ray-Ban Maker Lozotica to develop some AR

0:58.4

glasses. They don't have any products to show us just yet, however. He also sang the praises of VR generally, saying

1:05.1

that since COVID-19 he's held most of his management meetings entirely in VR. And Facebook is getting

1:10.8

into the fitness space as well with something called

1:13.0

Oculus moves. Andrew Bosworth came on to say that portal and messenger will be

1:17.9

opened up for developers to create on soon, but the really big news was the Oculus Quest 2 is here and it looks like a really big update.

1:27.0

Starting at $299 with a more lightweight design, the Quest two will have 50% better resolution a 90

1:36.1

hurts refresh rate up to 256 gigabytes of storage and you can get your hands on

1:41.1

this starting October 13th.

1:43.5

Remember, this is the lightweight wireless VR headset

1:46.7

that doesn't need any additional hardware to use.

1:49.4

This is the device that Facebook Copes

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