Wed. 10/12 – Meta’s VR Event; Microsoft’s Surface Event

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Only two big stories really. We break down yesterday’s Meta VR event, including the new high end Quest Pro. But did Zuck show us anything that will get anyone excited about the Metaverse yet? And Microsoft’s Surface event had a lot of Surface refreshes, but was the big news actually their integration of DALL-E 2 with a new Designer app? The productivity space is hot… Sponsors: TED Tech Podcast Links: The Meta Quest Pro costs $1,499 and ships October 25th (The Verge) What happened to the virtual reality gaming revolution? (Ars Technica) It’s painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing (TechCrunch) Zuckerberg’s $1,499 Headsets Won’t Help Meta (Bloomberg) Surface Pro 9 lets you pick between Intel or Arm 5G and new color options (The Verge) Microsoft's (barely) refreshed Surface Laptop 5 starts at $1,000 (Engadget) Microsoft’s Surface Studio 2 Plus ships with an RTX 3060 for $4,299 (The Verge) Microsoft brings DALL-E 2 to the masses with Designer and Image Creator (TechCrunch) Microsoft’s Adaptive Accessories finally have a release date (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, October 12th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.7	Only two big stories, really. We break down yesterday's meta VR event including the new
0:15.4	high-end quest pro but did Zuck show us anything that will get anyone excited
0:20.5	about the metaverse yet and Microsoft Surface Event had a lot of Surface
0:24.4	Refreshes but was the big news actually their integration of Dolly 2 with a new designer
0:29.3	app. The productivity space is hot y'all. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:37.7	The first major announce of the new Meta era
0:41.2	came yesterday at the Meta Connect conference when Meta unveiled the $1,199
0:47.0	Quest Pro headset, which offers eye and face tracking and color pass-through video for mixed reality.
0:55.0	It's shipping on October 25 in 22 countries.
0:59.0	This is the high-end device codenamed Project Cambria that Meta hopes will excite developers and seed the
1:05.9	ground with higher-end technologies that will eventually trickle down to the mainstream, thereby
1:10.3	mainstreaming the hardware necessary to make their vision of the Metaverse happen.
1:16.3	Quoting the Verge.
1:17.7	The Quest Pro will sit alongside the $379 Quest 2, which Meta will continue selling as well.
1:23.6	But where the Quest2 user base favors fitness, games, and other entertainment,
1:27.6	the Quest Pro is aimed at businesses and professionals who can afford its higher price tag.
1:32.4	The Quest Pro is effectively a heavily redesigned Quest 2 with extra features.
1:37.0	Its body uses a thinner stack of lenses, which Meta says cuts its depth by 40% compared to the Quest 2. It fits on your head with a padded
1:45.9	plastic ring similar to the Quest 2's optional elite strap instead of cloth straps and
1:51.6	its battery has been shifted to the back of the
1:53.5	headset rebalancing it. That helps offset the 722 gram weight which is quite a bit
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