all right guys it is W show time we had
a couple people we've got people complaining that we're an hour late we
are not an hour late daylight savings time is a thing here in the Canada well
not in all of Canada but we've been through this we've been through this
last week so I'm not going to spend too much time on it I actually just realized
that I don't have my headphones on me so I'm not monitoring the audio so for all
I know they're not hearing any of this
rock on so anyway here we go I'm going
to go ahead and make sure that we actually have audio it looks like we do
so got people being like no sound no
sound I love you guys I love you so much
hey uh Brandon speaking of no sound can you Center the camera for us I think it
like fell thanks man I don't know how this
happens all the time I don't even get it
ghost Phantom camera movers I actually I know exactly how it happens I'm usually
the one who moves it by accident no because the tripod is not
actually secured very well here Brandon just look over here but what are you
doing in here all the time the well I I'm borrowing the lens or stuff like
that so or like turning off the camera
because you guys we're in a really small room like actually really small really
small so the camera is on a tripod where
like the back legs are like vertical and the front legs like out like this so
the camera's like right against the wall I can barely reach the power button all
right so we got a great show for you guys today actually fantastic show um
Google has begun talking about their
Smartwatch OS Android Wear so this is a
type of Android that when it bites other Androids they become infected
and not wear and no no Android Wear not
wear I got I got it it was a joke yeah
it was a rather clever one so Android Wear is going to be an OS
that is specifically optimized for wearables and the one of the first
products we're going to see is the Moto 360 which has people internally here at
lonus Media Group anyway extremely excited because it's round
well that brings in my okay I was I I tried we're not getting into this topic
yet oh you have to do your introductory topics then the intro I got so excited I
was ready to go anyway I we got to tease the audience don't just you my teasing
articles put out entirely right up front is that there's something called Project
Morpheus coming from Sony which has to do with VR and there's something more
direct called uh developer kit 2 coming
from Oculus which is about VR and we'll talk about both those things in their
hopefully entirety later and there's also a documentary released by Valve
which some people are either on on either side of a fence for and that fence seems to be completely hating it
or completely loving it so we'll talk about that later as well all right
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like uh uh uh and then I was like I was
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me with any like when's the last time other than Cosmetics when's the last
time saw someone there someone to help you and I mean we had this problem at
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that's like horrible for you like it really is I'm not even okay like sponsor
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know but it's just like I'm way too lazy to go by because every single time I get
there I'm just like oh I'm done I just
leave I hate finding people in stores and even if I can find someone I hate
talking to salese well they're just they're just
opening a cabinet for you it's not like you're buying them at a car dealership
speaking of car dealerships we're super mad at them should we just jump into
that right now we should just jump right into that right now cuz I'm like super
mad I get the feeling that we're going to be talking about this like every week
for the next like I don't know how long where the hell is this link remember we
can use the no it's not there where was it Ohio there we go Ohio auto dealers
support an anti-tesla direct sales Bill
really really they don't they support
the anti- Tesla Bill and now my screen sharing isn't working because that's how
angry I am right now that's like the level of anger that's going on is that
even plugged into the right thing your anger just like
flow is that yeah flowed into the flow flow too too much anger I think it's
going into the a media thing so anyway here you do you want to like walk them
through this in the okay so Ohio like obviously I don't know why anyone would
think otherwise oh you just moved the
camera Ohio auto dealers are trying to
push the bill that will stop Tesla from opening stores outside of its only two
locations in Ohio ah so you don't let them sell
directly the customer you're not letting them sell like oh
man they're taking legal action against them but it didn't fall in their favor
blah blah blah but it might because they're in big pockets and they have
tons of money and they're probably yeah
do you even listen to yourself yes that wasn't as bad as coming with a brick
come come with a brick that's fantastic
all right I'm going to I just plugged it into a different capture card because
that is how baller we are now so a lot of the auto dealers don't want to sell
Tesla vehicles but they don't also don't want Tesla to be able to sell their own
Vehicles which is kind of ridiculous I can fully understand the auto dealers
not wanting to sell Tesla vehicles because they're stupid but I can't fully
understand not Tesla vehicles are stupid auto dealers are stupid and we hate them
but I can't understand they're like yeah we don't want to sell them but you can't
sell them either I get where they're coming from but that's way worse and
should never be allowed to be a thing so basically this just comes down to who's
got the deep relation existing relationship and not what's actually
best for the consumer or best for a free and open market I mean okay so here that
there there's there's some big problems here so we have another article on this
that's actually from jalopnik.com where
Patrick George the writer there I'm just going to go ahead and bring this up on the screen figures and and this was so
his early estimate when he was just digging into the public record figures
that the Ohio Senator behind the new bill who was the same one who tried to
sneak this into some stupid traffic legislation at some point earlier um the
same guy who's behind it has taken so he figured uh
$7,500 since 2009 from the Ohio
Automobile Dealers Association Investment Group then there's an update
to the article and it's like okay well it turns out that he got way more from
car dealers that I was able to find media trackers reports between 2002 and
2013 pattent received 42
1,825 from State and National Auto dealership owners employees and
political action committees honestly I would fully expect it to be more than
that too it may very well be more than that like that's what they know of like
come on but this is a big fundamental
problem how can we expect the world to move forward if we just take these
existing incumbents who just have Deep Pockets to just buy whatever they want
and allow them to do this last week we talked about it and you went slightly
defensive when saying um about how it takes it takes people a long time to
adapt to different things yes and like like the selling directly from the
retailer and all that kind of stuff and that kind of makes I propose to
compromise I'm I'm not saying that I'm just saying like that was brought up and
that's actually kind of interesting and kind of makes sense but when people are
taking this kind of a stance that's not really okay okay so here's a quote from
this Paton Yahoo the state leg ISL years
ago recognized having distinct roles for auto
manufacturers and dealers Fosters competition in the marketplace and
provides consumers with a system of checks and balances to ensure that
warranty and service issues are administered fairly he said in an email
Senate Bill 260 simply reinforces a standard set of rules for all
manufacturers and dealers to follow which benefits both the industry and consumers when was the last time anyone
anywhere had a good experience with a car warranty issue at a dealership I
would love to hear from you guys hit us up on Twitter if you have had a good at
lineus tech on Twitter right there if your manufacturer warranty experience at
a dealership was fantastic all Tesla is asking for is a to cut out the middleman
and they're not blameless here they really are just trying to reduce overhead which isn't necessarily bad but
the other thing that they're asking for is to control the customers experience
because they don't feel like dealerships deliver a great one and I for I forget
where the link was last year but I think it was something like 9% satisfaction
polls well I did I tell you but when I was shopping for my car car salesman or
something like that when I was shopping for my car I knew the exact model I wanted and we spent the entire day just
going to dealership to dealership to dealership and I'd like walk around for a little bit and then just leave I was
like I just hate these guys like I can't do it like I'd get hounded and then I
talk to them for a little bit and then I just be like oh sorry just leave there's a great episode of um there's a great
episode of Dexter where he he kills a car salesman and the guy just like is
amazing like the actor did a really great job of being a car salesman but it
was it the scary part of watching it was the car salesman was exactly like every
car salesman I've ever encountered it's like oh you've got a 2-year-old son so
do I and I'd be looking at them I'm like yeah you're like 65 no you don't it's
just ridiculous anything to like build
the relationship with the customer and make them feel comfortable giving
we went with the angle I paid for my car but we went the angle so that they
thought it was my parents so I could easily be the like the one actually
managing everything but they were targeting my parents so he heard our
last name and then asked my dad where he's from oh they ended up going to the
same school and like all this crap and I was like probably not luckily all that
junk is focused on my dad even though I'm the one actually making the purchasing decision that was one of the
smartest things I've ever had my mom do was like let's make them think we're
buying it that was so smart cuz it made it so much easier anyways anyway
so I guess that's about it luckily we don't have to talk about it for very
long because we're probably going to have to talk about it every single week yeah I know right as new States and new
things come into play one thing that you said earlier that I thought was
hilarious uh this was a few days ago about this thing CU like you were like I
thought this was America yeah I thought this was America you know what's funny
about that is direct sales already exists in
Canada it's like America you're falling behind like Canada in your americanness
like come on Freedom Train we're we're actually like rooting for you over here
you guys can do it I believe in you we we want we want everyone to have the
right to buy the vehicle they want the way they want without dealing with
greasy used car salesman or new car salesman I don't think the new ones are
better than the used ones they're not light condoms that
way all right so let's head back over to my screen here Google is official
getting into wearables is the first line of this article which Dante I mean come
on is that is that really the headline here I mean Google Glass was I mean it
goes on your face if anything it's more
wearable than a smartwatch but it but it's okay it's okay it's okay I still like the article so Smartwatch is coming
soon from some of the partners that they've announced including Motorola
Samsung LG and more the one that you're
looking right there is the Moto 3 60
which has a round display and with a very very classic styling looks a lot
more like what we would expect a watch to look like as opposed to just being a
smartwatch now I've seen some smart Smartwatch designs haven't had my hands
on too many of them yet I have a Pebble Steel coming um I'm definitely going to
Ping Motorola about getting my hands on one of these and I've had some people
requesting that I look at the Sony SmartWatch 2o um I reached out to my
contact there but it's like a Canadian contact so they often don't have access
to stuff but if I can't get one from them I'll just buy one and uh I
definitely want to talk more about about these wearables but um I've seen some
really smart ones that include things like a classic analog watch under a
transparent screen and I think something like that is I told you about that
that's that's the thing that I didn't want to put in uh the show yet but like
I've i' I told you about that months ago about how that should have been a thing
how they have a normal watch with a screen on top of it so it can be a smart
watch or a classic watch that makes so much sense that makes a ton of sense to
me but for someone like me who doesn't really about the classic watch look I
would probably still go with something more like the Moto 360 so basically it's
going to be running a very very lightweight OS you're going to have the
ability to obviously pair it with your other Android devices uh you'll be able
to use things like voice control so Google Now something that doesn't come
up in everyday conversation that much uh
unlike Xbox my buddy Nick and I were hanging out last night working on something and I had my phone up and he
had his phone up and he decided to set a calendar event he like Okay Google and
they're like like stop no I don't want this on
my phone anyways sorry keep going um Google's also working with fashion
brands as opposed to just pure it Brands
I mean the the great thing about it Brands we love them dearly and they
deliver fantastic technology to us um the not so great thing about them is
that sometimes they don't really have great fashion sense and Apple
well I did pick the orange one the bad fashion sense was sort of my bad here so
you're the it brand is I'm the IT guy so
when you compare that to Apple um and they just beautiful fashion sense Google
doesn't want their mobile their wearable OS to be stuck as like for for it dorks
like me they want it to be something that will be accepted by the general
consumer so they will be working very closely with their Partners to ensure
that we get beautiful designs although Moto 360 from a more traditional company
although we don't know how much influence Google had on the project because of the very brief ownership that
they had of Motorola so all of those things um looks absolutely beautiful and
and that's a big thing with watches cuz watches are huge about style yes so like
it it does make a ton of sense if we really cared about the functionality of
watches everyone would still be wearing a calculator
watch hey I had one that did everything it had a backlight could do alarms I
could write boobies on it yeah I'm sure you could did
absolutely everything so did I miss anything there
I don't think so we're just kind of waiting to get one so we can do a video
about it yeah there will be more information in sort of the beginning of the summer sort of like late June sort
of time frame um there's lots of rumors flying around about Apple Smartwatch I'm
really excited to see what comes from both of them and I will definitely get
my hands on them at my soonest possible
opportunity uh one thing I don't like about the Moto 360 which I guess let's
get into now is that they seem to be
using just kind of a a traditional LCD based screen um and for
me with a phone I can like here here
this is this is actually great cuz I have my phone plugged into a battery
bank right now CU it died when I tried to call him right with a phone I can
kind of accept one day battery because it's something that I already like I
don't know like I already accept it even though I don't know if I should like our
our new guy Taran um was using some
ancient hey Taran do you have your phone here your old
one yeah he does does he yeah
Taran do you have your old phone
here can I borrow it you guys are going to love this so he's got an old phone
that he figures gets about a month of battery life but I saw this thing and I
was like dude you got to get with the time so I was just like here's a One
Mini I know it's not the greatest phone in the world but jeez man when I first
saw it I thought it was a Blackberry yeah if a Blackberry was made
by like Fisher pra so this is this is
like a look at the screen size it actually doesn't even weigh anything
either it does have a keybard to my thumb yeah here
thank you um so we can we can make fun of it because we we gave him something
else but one of the things he complained about immediately switching to a modern
smartphone is the hey the battery life sucks on this thing I have to charge it
every day and I have been doing it for so long that I've kind of Forgotten but
with watches we're not talking about going from a week of battery on my old
noia brick phone versus like a day of or a couple days of battery at best on a
smartphone we're talking about going from months long batteries or even like
solar powered to like a day on the gear
no no no so we need to see mirol displays we need to see advances in that
technology we need to see whatever it takes to keep them low power enough to
run for at least four to 5 days would be my Benchmark if I can remember to charge
it a couple times a week then I'm okay with that I found when I was testing G2
that it had like actually a pretty acceptable amount because you could go
with pretty heavy use for 2 days and between totally fine and that was pretty
good cuz if you forgot one night you probably wouldn't forget the next so
that was okay when I was testing it so right now we don't have too many details
about the 360 it's going to launch in the summer uh they aren't mentioning any
specs whatsoever and I think that's going to be a common theme with
SmartWatches Samsung did release some of the specifications of the gear so they
were like yeah we're using kind of this processor we're using a cut down Android
we're doing this we're doing that but you look at what Qualcomm did with the
talk they didn't give us any specs I don't think anyone really I don't think
Pebble talks about what they're using in their watches at all I think for these
kinds of devices the the Space Race the gigahertz race um is going to be pretty
much over and I'm okay with that and I had some I had someone criticize me
pretty harshly on my Talk review when I said I don't know what's in here and I
don't care they said well you're a Tech head you're supposed to care but the
reality of it is that beyond the display and the aesthetic and the software of
something like a smart Smart Watch why would I care all the processing is done
here all the connectivity besides and hopefully that will happen even more
right we've talked about this in the past where we were talking about having a more centralized compute and then your
other things just connecting to it so hopefully that will matter even less
than it does now if anything the smart watch should be as dumb as possible so
that we can extend its battery life cuz that'll be a better overall experience
if you can you know have your wireless Ear Pod
and your Smartwatch and all this stuff that just uses super low power
connectivity to have something else do all the work and act as as a hub then
that's going to deliver a much better experience for people who actually need to like gear all this stuff up every day
before they leave the house yeah um so it'll probably feature wireless charging
we'll launch first in the US but we'll find a way to get our hands on it um no
camera on board uh there are some pictures and
renders on the uh The Daily Tech article here so nice pop that it looks
absolutely beautiful doesn't it yeah there you go and like the classic watch
fronts look really good yeah I'm
actually pretty stoked for this too and I haven't been super stoked for too many smart watches yet so you'll be able to
do all the usual stuff check your emails preview your text messages all that kind
of all that kind of nonsense but uh you know I'm not going to get too hyped
about it this time because I got really
amped on the qualcom talk yeah I remember that I was like it did look a
lot better and it's not bad yeah it
isn't a bad product there's just a few things like the the cutting the thing
it's just not a finished product yeah that was my issue with it and it was too
expensive although they dropped the price $100 like two days after my review
went up so I single-handedly take responsibility for that price
drop no I don't but but I I I would have
probably adjusted my conclusion about the device a little bit based on the
price drop but I would have also needed to see them going in the right direction in terms of software Dev as well I mean
one thing that I really you know this this isn't in our
agenda today but go for it we do that a lot
anyways yeah I know Fitness wearables y
fad or longterm I think eventually they'll just
be integrated into everything else um but I think Fitness is not a
fad okay so like I think it'll be something maybe considering your
Smartwatch will have skin contact anyway maybe it can grab your heartbeat that
way maybe other things can do everything that Fitness wearables are currently
doing so you don't need them maybe your freaking running headphones that you
wear can now do everything that the fitness wearable does yeah I saw one
that's I actually kickstarted it last night I think I didn't even know that
existed so like I I think the idea of Fitness integrated with technology that
you can go on a run is only going to get bigger but I don't know if it's going to
be dedicated devices are we just selling the dream to people who are out of shape
no not necessarily because the main people I know that are buying these things are actually fairly in shape okay
I know someone that goes for like 10 to 15K runs at least twice a week and he's
the one that always has the new fitness wearable okay okay but of course you're
dealing with Fitness some amount of it is going to be selling the dream cuz we
fit sold like billio some amount of it is selling the dream I out of the
3,130 people watching right now I guarantee not one of you has touched a
we fit in like a year like that's the
that's the issue with these Fitness wearables is that I look at them right
now in their current form and I go well that's stupid because it does like one
thing and it's an entire another device to carry around something that I've been
waiting for is a more and like I know I'm taking this course so of course I'm
trying to apply it to everything but um I kind of always do because I think it's
fantastic but a more gamified system of Fitness wearables like my biggest
complaint with the Zombies Run 2 app is
that it's not tracked enough and there's
not enough like goals and progress loops
and engagement loops and stuff like that like there's nothing pushing me to go for my run right other than myself once
I get out there I get the voice track I get all that kind of stuff but like the
build your own base part of it is really not very welldeveloped and it's kind of
really boring and has no real meaning um
and the social integration is there but it's kind of JY and doesn't matter the
problem with social integration for fitness apps in my mind is that it helps
the people who are already really active yeah maybe it keeps a ball rolling but I
don't think if you're not in a group of
physically engaged people like uh so so the only real thing that I do to work
out is I play badminton so unless my whole group all are like using that app
or something and like we play all of our games with like this badminton app or
something that tracks how far you moved on the court and we can compare stats
and there's some kind of there like unless it's really deeply integrated and
really personalized it's not that meaningful to
me and I don't think it's going to help a couch potato get off the couch I think it's more like for your buddy who
already runs anyway yeah and that's true but then it's it has to be voluntary
like that part of the app has to be voluntary you have to look for it and
you have to enable it yourself if it's forced upon you it's just going to hurt
right it's not a good idea um but like having those things where maybe playing
Zombies Run if I go for a run four or five times in one week it can be like
you're really getting on it it give be some sort of badge or award or something
and then maybe I can get something in the game maybe it'll talk to me different or something like that like
some type of so I can have some sort of a goal within the system within the game
I think that's a good idea and could push a lot of people off the couch
because the main reason why I'm going for these runs lately is because it's
fun right I hate going for runs is
mind-numbingly boring but if I can listen to this this audio tape
essentially which is just giving me a storyline which I really have no integration with which is another thing
that's terrible about that game is there's no actual plotted points on a
map so I just run in a circle the whole time and they're like yeah let's run
down Main Street and I'm like I'm running through the park this is not a
thing I think when you'll convince me CU that that again is the to is the problem
with this Fitness thing for me and I think what's out there now is kind of
fatty yeah but it that's the problem but when we see it more tightly integrated
like that um that laser tag system that we saw with the augmented reality when
you integrate that with a fitness element you build a fitness app for that
so that it's designed to move your Battlefield around and your objectives
around like if they mix like if they mixed like uh Ingress with uh Zombies
Run so you have to like run to a point and like take it over and then keep
running something yeah yeah that totally makes sense something like that is a
whole other ball game and then you know I've got a lot of people okay I I I I
don't I don't normally I don't normally respond to these kinds of comments but
I've got a lot of people that that are that are giving me a hard time about
Badminton being a workout here on the stream so uh so oh god really so you
know what okay here we go right
there that's right this is awkward right
there I'm not a part of this binton is a workout I'm not a part I wasn't on this
stream it's the only thing I do I wasn't on the stream bam all right I'm just
putting that out there so let's move on to our next topic because badminton is a
thing this is awkward Amazon smartphone the original article is from bgr.com oh
you know what no before we move into that let's have a look at people's
comments on the whole dealership thing Ryan says Nope um hermy says Audi has
good car salesman uh Tommy says I work at a and we don't have razors in cages
there they're alarmed and it's in front of the counter okay that's not that's
better if you're willing to give up that near the car salesman um or that near car that near
the counter space Cameron Martin that's probably the point hated that car
salesman yeah Chevy wanted me to pay 2K to fix one wire in the harness of my car
that was a known defect that kills audio I did it myself for $12 oh my God Ashley
says I had a good experience but they didn't struggle was your garage sale
successful yes it was we're going to have another garage sale today never
have many issues with recurring transmission problem even went to multiple dealerships you know my parents
SUV um that's stupid you know how the hatch doesn't open yeah that's been
there since like 6 months after they got it they've never managed to actually fix
it y okay Mr Jimmy penguin says I have
okay that was good um fully supported
the okay infinity dealer at Richmond autal is apparently pretty good they
always fix it up but the coffee is lousy coffe though 70 bucks for my 30k
maintenance for free one day yeah okay nope dealerships would kill a rising up
with bad experiences I'm a kid so this doesn't matter haven't bought a car yet
are good for getting service done I've gone to private garages for Diagnostics
and they were way off okay I think that's going to vary a
lot I think a lot of it too is going to vary between vendors as well too but
that's I mean this is good for us to know so just because our experience have
been what they are well we have a very small um use I don't buy new I don't buy
new vehicles I've been shopping for new vehicles but um I've never actually
that's another thing bought for myself have you actually dealt with the new
vehicle salesman though uh yeah oh yeah I was I've only dealt with used car
sales um when uh when I was shopping for my wife's car we were going to buy new
and then we ended up not so we we shopped everywhere I I deal I dealt with
dealers that sold new cars and used cars they weren't just used cars dealerships
they were like everything dealerships right um so I don't know if that makes
any difference but yeah I also don't have a huge amount of experience I've bought one car that was from a
dealership the car that I bought before that was from like just a family friend
I apologize to whoever I made throw up
you made someone throw up my with my tummy have you like not ever watched TV
or gone to a pool or something yeah no apparently apparently threw up guys
stomachs are like not really a a censored thing I'm just putting that out
there you must throw up a
lot that's great moving on all right yeah let's move on
okay should we have another like this is on almost every week thing talk about
that no let's do the uh let's do the Amazon smartphone R rumors so this isn't
confirmed in anyway I'll let you handled this one the Amazon smartphone thing
yeah I didn't really look over this a ton cuz I didn't really care because
it's a not confirmed and like what are they
doing I don't
know it doesn't make a ton of sense to me the the camera things for gestures
okay so there's like six cameras or something yeah there's six cameras there's a front and back and there's
four for gestures yeah that's interesting yep that's definitely
interesting but I personally I'm not super interested in gestures on my phone
um I like gestures on monitors we saw that at CES I thought that was
interesting um gesture control built into monitors I thought that was kind of
cool especially for touch desktop experiences I could see it helping
Windows 8.1 or maybe Windows 9 rumors a
lot because of like uh modern UI or whatever because at a desktop I'm not
necessarily that close and I don't want to be like touching things all the time
so I think that's kind of cool but for my phone it's always right there and I
don't really mind touching the screen I like the tactile feedback so I'm not
really sure I'm not super interested in that um it's it doesn't have the highest
end screen the battery seems like super
lame um I don't know I don't know why they're
getting into the smartphone market now when it seems like all the hype is going
down but maybe that is a good time because maybe the shelf life for a phone
is becoming longer because the the market isn't being as pushed as hard
yeah and I mean if their whole model is that they're just going to sell you a
device and then um not really care at
all if they make any money on it and then instead bundle in their services or
sell you ebooks or audio books down the line then ultimately what do they care
as long as it's a reasonably competitive device at a reasonably competitive price
if you're someone who's deeply entrenched in the Amazon ecosystem which
is getting easier and easier to do um not for Canadians might make a ton of
sense yeah not so much for Canadians but all the news we get is so us Centric
anyway yeah we had I had someone in the twitch chat saying that some of what we
were saying was offensive he's a car salesman
and sorry it might not be you maybe
you're the good one but there's always got to be an exception to prove the rule
yep and like all I can go on is my own
experience my yeah my personal experience has not been super great but
then I have very low amount of personal experience
all right so moving on to smartphones that may actually be reasonably exciting
the iPhone 6 so there are renders there
are maybe leaks we're looking at an
ultra retina screen with a 379 pixels per inch density totally
unnecessary did I say 379 cuz I meant 389 that 10 extra pixels is going to
make all the difference definitely uh uh we could be looking at
Apple's fastest processor yet A 2.6 GHz
A8 processor this little render right
here may not actually be factual at all but the rumors are that it might be as
thin as 5 and2
mm which is kind of Berserk so more like
an iPad Air shrunk down as opposed to um
more bricky like the previous iPhones um
we could be looking at two different display sizes 4 and 5.7 in um which is a
real departure and kind of surprising to me like I would have expected them to do
something more like the traditional iPhone size and then maybe a 4.7 large
iPhone I wouldn't have expected them to do a larger iPhone and a and like almost
a fablet jobs has passed man but the
thing is okay like if we if we think
about you know who's using I know you mean like make an option so that all the
current users that want the same siiz phone can have that option and like I'm
not trying to generalize based on sex I'm not going to say that women use
iPhones and men use Android phones well gay apparently uses an iPhone who gay
gay Ben yeah well okay we'll talk about that later um but what I will say is
that four people with smaller hands and women would fall into that category I
also would so I'm not like down on them or anything
the iPhone is a great option because it
is smaller but it is still very highend very high spec and very feature rate but
you've used a bigger phone now yep and you were totally fine with it I'm
totally fine with it but I went back to using my iPhone 4 not that long ago and
I was like oh yeah it's really easy to use okay and oh this is actually
something that isn't on the dock and I didn't talk about last week um Apple
fixed it the iPhone 4 on iOS
7.1 Snappy it's not it's not a new high-end device
or anything but it's way better like you saw it before y it's probably as
responsible as as responsible as responsive as my like cluttered up HTC1
at this point for basic stuff I mean it hitches more maybe more like a Moto G
okay yeah more like a Moto G and that was one of the things that I had mocked
Apple openly about before was that they were positioning iPhone 4 in markets
like India as a competitor for Moto G and it was more expensive well now at
least it has higher build quality and and it's delivering a responsive
experience yeah because it was kind of a problem oh it was terrible terrible for
a while AG kind of a really big problem so kudos to Apple for continuing to SP I
mean this is something that I always have to contrast um against the Android
experience is I got my iPhone 4 the same time my wife got a Galaxy S Vibrant how
supported is a Galaxy S Vibrant versus an iPhone 4 and that's that's why I
always leaned on Nexus devices pretty hard yeah is cuz at least with my Nexus
S um um I had updates for a really long
time did nexs ever get kit kat uh I don't think so I think I
stopped using it before that would have happened so I'm not
sure apparently there there are ROMs if nothing else uh Kit Kat Android 4.4
that's through S engine mod uh Android
maybe someone in the twitch chat can let us know I can't I can't remember I don't follow phones as closely as uh as I do
lots of other things all right so let's see if there are any more iPhone 6 oh
yeah there's a couple really cool leaks so two things um the rumor is that Apple
may be using U so they they put in five patents for liquid metal and um the
rumors is that it may be used to encase the phone so there's a there's a link to
the patent here I'm just going to go ahead and fire this up for you guys minus' screen okay that's probably not
that helpful so there you go basically that that's what at least one of them
looks like but let's talk a little bit about liquid metal because a lot of
people are under the uh impression that liquid metal is actually liquid no but
it isn't at all what liquid metal is is
more of it's okay it's it's it's strong and its light and it's more to do with
the ease of working with it and the fact
that it's difficult to scratch than like
it being like liquid like you know a
doorway that you approach and it like you know dissolves as you walk through
it like it's not like that it's just um the the difference the main difference
between liquid metal and normal metal is that rather than having a clear melting
point where we go from solid to liquid
liquid metal becomes more softer and
softer and easier and easier to mold and more liquid like very gradually as you
increase the temperature so this means that you can work with it in a number of
different ways it also maintains its strength even if you heat it up and cool
it down so what happens is you can make it super liquid to the point where you
can cast it which with traditional Metals is not nearly as strong as if you
were to forge it or work on it in some other way so you can cast it and then if
you're at a different temperature you can actually mold it so you can create
very complex shapes another characteristic of liquid metal is that
it doesn't expand and contract to nearly the same degree as more traditional
normal Metals do so when you heat it up and do something with it it's not going
to just contract and deform and and do something stupid so we could be looking
at some extremely beautiful Innovative designs with liquid metal but beyond it
being a little bit more difficult to scratch and
lightweight probably isn't going to make that much of a day-to-day difference and
they're probably not going to go way off the wall with it either I don't expect
Apple to come with some like crazy weird liquid metal design that can only be
achieved by using liquid metal yeah they'll probably honest because Apple's
design first implementation second so they'll figure out what they want to
make and then if liquid metal is the easiest way to do it then they'll do it
I mean they've been experimenting with it for a while back in the iPhone 3G
days some of the Sim removal trays were
liquid metal and probably people never
even thought about it or noticed or knew
and all they were doing was kind of playing kind of trying it
yeah yeah you got to wonder how often crap like that goes on you just have no
idea what you actually yeah that's probably true because we heard so many rumors about it back then it was such a
big deal for like a little while and then it just never really became a thing
so it faded away this is really cool I'm going to highlight
it yes um so the rumor is that we could
be looking at a sapphire glass screen so to to just explain what Sapphire or
Sapphire sapphire crystal glass screen whatever you want to call it sapphire
crystal screen so to be clear a sapphire crystal screen is going to be more
difficult to scratch than the current weapon of choice Gorilla Glass 3 from
Corning but Corning actually had a
conference called earlier this month it was about 2 and a half weeks ago
where I mean analysts were trying to
kind of pick at them basically they're trying to figure out what the upcoming
iPhone will use because Corning would obviously be privy to what kind of glass
apple is ordering and if they saw a sudden dramatic decline in shipments
compared to what they normally get when there's an upcoming iPhone then they'd
kind of figure out okay I guess they're not using Gorilla Glass 3 this time
around um so what Corning had to say about sapphire glass is that it's about 10
times the price and yes it is more expensive right now it's a lot more
expensive and less environmentally friendly to produce due to the energy
involved and the amount of time it takes to build the large paines of it and it
is while more scratch resistant not necessarily able to take more pressure
although one of the things that um the I didn't actually read the entire
transcript of the call but one of the things the summary didn't mention was
impact resistance and that's something I think most people would actually be more
concerned about what than pressure I would be way more concerned about impact
than pressure what about Impact versus
scratching probably be more looking at
the things I've seen happen to iPhones or any other phone I mean or any other
phone probably impact right because you can kind of deal with scratching but
when the entire face of your phone becomes in not usable because you
dropped it from a foot and it just landed at a really weird angle I don't
know not very cool well at any rate Corning um obviously is going to be
defensive of Gorilla Glass they did say they have a new Gorilla Glass coming
sometime in 2014 Gorilla Glass 4 so that'll probably have their
antimicrobial um the like the agent inte
saw yeah very cool um so that'll probably have that maybe it'll be even
stronger and thinner oh they also said that gill glass is lighter I think it's
something like 60% lighter or something like that um so although with how much
lighter phones have been getting I don't think that's it's going to be a huge deal here's what Corning said um we
don't know what kind of glass Apple's using but our forecast is still 30%
growth blah blah blah blah blah so whatever they're using won't have any impact on our volumes so whatever that
means that's weird yeah uh the camera on the iPhone 6 is rumored to be up to 13
megapixels although the actual megapixels are not nearly as important
as some of the other Innovations we've seen in cameras over the last little while like the Dual LED flashes for a
more for more balanced skin tone and stuff like that okay ha I called this what yep I
know what you're going to bring into now I'm not even at the right article but
it's yep I called this so hard the
iPhone is or the iPhone the iome is coming Apple just patented A system that
could put Siri in charge of your home we should have seen this coming I did no
but like this level of it this looks
absolutely fantastic fantastic actually to the point where like if some like it
is not going to come down to Moto 360
versus Pebble and it's not going to come down to iPhone versus HTC1 it is going
to come down to whoever can build the best ecosystem that makes it so that
your life is augmented in meaningful ways and then that watch will go along
with it and then that you'll buy whatever watch goes with it if I'm if
the watch that when I'm sitting on my couch being a potato for too long says
hey you're at like a super low like resting
heart rate have you even done anything in the last three days get your ass up
go for a run and then when I get in my car it's like yo dog I said go for a run
not go for a drive like when we get something that's that intelligent I mean
a I haven't seen it yet have you seen her who her her the movie yes you have
yes I have so I haven't seen I haven't seen it yet but like that because I've
seen trailers is that what you're kind of talking about where it can like converse with you because that's
essentially what you're just doing even without the conversation even without
the conversational aspect something that really looks for patterns in your
behavior and if you give it a set of goals like look I want to be more active
I want to be more active I want to lose 10 pounds some people aren't going to want you some people won't want that and
some people will be absolutely terrified by this and if I was smart I would be
too because this level of of being aware
of what you're doing and where you are and what you're saying at any given time
is is is just AB scary but in terms of an enjoyable
lifestyle if I were to just block it
from my mind and not worry about the fact that someone else is watching what
I'm doing um I think it could seriously enhance my life anyway we've got I'm I'm
excited for this type of stuff um I'm jumping ideas again but like what with
Google just did where they're encrypting your email all over yeah I was going to
jump into that topic next for sure yeah so they're they're encrypting your email
all over the freaking place I'm excited for more personalized style Cloud more
personalized style services and something like this where maybe you get
like the Siri box which sits in the closet in your house and just has
storage and compute and connectivity and everything and then it's all your own
stuff and it's encrypted everywhere like crazy because
then the is probably still going to find a way to get it I don't think either
Apple or Google with the way that they value your information is ever going to
offer that to you yeah but then they'll
take it but then no one else okay and you're going to have to figure out which
one you're okay with having all of your data Apple's got a reasonably okay
history of privacy protection actually
yeah like neither of them are super scary Google's becoming more scary yeah
I was just going to say Google's getting kind of scary lately I I was on the
Google train pretty hard probably about a year ago maybe a little bit more and
I've dropped off pretty heavily cuz a a lot of their services are just kind of
becoming junk just putting that out there they're getting worse not better
you know what's really funny I've noticed that like half of my calendar
notifications don't pop up anymore and I'm just like things just seem to be
getting that's weird things just seem to be getting worse I haven't seen
something from them in so long I know right oh major Geeks all right so let's
move into our next topic this is a positive thing about Google though so
the article is on majorgeeks.com
this is definitely man I used to love this website I know I used to be on here
all the time downloading my future marks yeah man yeah man like any game patches
are always on here yeah dog all right uh
sorry yeah so like this is definitely Improvement I know I just said
everything's getting worse but this is definitely getting cutter okay so let's talk about what what's going on here so
Google Gmail has announced that they are quote quote staying at the Forefront of
email security and reliability by using an encrypted https connect ction when
you check or send email the fact that
the option to turn off https will no longer be available will help users
thwart the prying eyes of any number of wouldbe snoopers so is this is this like
is this the transition to the Future where everyone starts to hate government
and government kind of seems to go away and then it's just like what corporate team are you
on cuz like in every video game and a
lot of future Style movies it's always these like giant mega Corps like by and
large that actually run everything and then like governments either just don't
exist or just don't matter well you look at how little uh apparently the
government matters in Ohio because the car dealerships are running Automotive
legislation so is this the future or was
it yesterday D yeah I don't know which would be
funnier if it wasn't actually something that's deeply concerning seriously
because like and something that we just talked about which is how we were
talking about how we might be more happy with uh Google or Apple having our data
than the NSA truthfully yep yeah
particular particularly Apple I would I would gladly hand over the keys to you
know like my life to Apple compared to
if you had to the government yeah if I had to choose if it was if it was like
gun to your head you pick one I'll hand it to Apple versus someone else because
Apple has my best interest at heart because they need my money yeah all of
your money but that's the difference between a government and a company is
that I have to voluntarily give Apple my money which is yeah that's a big deal
and that's what drives this corruption in the government is that I have to give
them my money whether I'm happy with what they're doing or not if I actually
had to give them my money because I was pleased with what they were doing that
would be a completely I I suspect we'd see them behave in a much more consumer
much more populace friendly manner so
while I'm not while while I don't think that Mega corporations are necessarily
you know perfect cuz they're not no no
is would we rather have a mega corporation that calls itself the
government I mean did you see that recent Scandal over the um shoot what it
was it Canadian Metals Millions wasted
I'm going to I'm going to see if I can find it um but like the the Canadian government
wasted some ludicrous amount of money awarding medals to like members of the
government for whatever they were doing some guy won like three and refused them
all because he was like looking at this program going this is absolutely obscene
how many millions of dollars of taxpayer money did you spend on like patting
ourselves on the back for doing a good job are you
insane um wish I could find it right now I I've never heard of this actually but
that's super yeah I was on the news a little while ago and I just kind of remember watching it and I was just like
really oh holy
crap it's kind of depressing I don't know like I can't imagine a company that
actually has to make its own money doing something that stupid yeah it's not
going to work or they're going to do I've you know what okay I've seen that
um challenge coins if you heard of challenge coins you know what challenge coins are like military challenge coins
and stuff like if you're in a a military
division possible that they will have what's called a challenge coin challenge
coins are a very old thing they go really far back when I was in Korea um
when edzel and I were doing our like Changing of the Guard thing did you hear
about that or see those pictures I heard you guys told me about it yeah yeah when
we're doing The Changing of the Guard thing there was a challenge coin ceremony okay to connect the coin or
whatever but the like more modern challenge coins like say you're a part of the 501 you better explain what the
hell of challenge coin is I'm probably not the only one who has no idea what you're talking about talk you get some
sort of coin you can probably Google it really easily you get a coin and then
it's very specific and if someone asks you for it you have to produce it and
then it has to match theirs so you know you're a part of the same crew okay um
obviously there's inherent issues where you could like kill someone and take
theirs and then be like hey I'm a part of your group but this is like a very
old system and challenge coins now are
just kind of like really cool and I know like there's a corporation on Eve that
got uh a whole bunch of funing together and got their own challenge coins
because they're they just look amazing uh I wonder if I can find that
article challenge coin Eve yep if you just Google challenge coin Eve the like
first thing on there will show the guy and then if you find it somewhere in the comments he has a picture of his and it
just looks like super cool right um I
can't remember where I was going for this what were we talking about for challenge points right okay so and I've
heard of some corporations giving like okay all of the executives give get
challenge coins but this is like you buy the mold which is like 500 bucks and
then each coin is like $6 right does not cost a whole bunch of
money they're not giving like trophies and medals and all this kind of stuff
and even if they do there's probably some sort of actually really good reason
behind it and they'll probably do it in a somewhat reasonable and financially
responsible way I like I like uh cric's
skills challenge coins please I got doge coins oh oh snap did you even find
pictures of challenge coins uh no I was I was looking for the stupid award
medals that were ridiculous I couldn't find them though but like there there's
reasons to give people awards but you're not supposed to spend all of your money
on it that's the whole point of giving someone an award is it's not a monetary
award yeah like you got a Christmas bonus yeah but it wasn't the entire
profit of the company for 2013 yeah and it's like it's it's supposed to like
make you happy and drive you to work harder like that's the idea of rewards
not like here we just spent all of our money I just wanted you to think of me
when you're not working every time you make food you have to think of me and
every time I play Wii U
yep isn't that depressing well I work all the time
posted by so it's kind of have to yeah I
don't know so basically it hasn't Chang so even when I'm on
lunch so Ashley posted on the Forum in
home streaming beta update March 17th this was posted by
slen and actually I got an opportunity to chat with with him for about an hour
on Steam Chat um earlier this week which was really cool and um I found out that
he's like the main guy who's working on Steam in home streaming we chatted and I
actually had a really cool experience where he was talking to me about
something like blah blah blah you know a year ago I was kind of you know thinking
about this this was percolating in my mind and I was like you know what it's
funny cuz it must have been about a year ago my co-host in I were sitting in my
garage talking about um NVIDIA grid and
how we wanted like a centralized streaming device within our homes that
would turn anything from a computer like a normal desktop computer to a Raspberry
Pi into a full-fledged gaming system and I went looking for the article and it
had been it was one year exactly prior
because NVIDIA had announced it at GDC the prior the previous year and U like I
sent him the link to the timestamp within what was before called live
stream but it's now W show and as he's watching it he's like yeah man you were
like right on like like way ahead of your time but like imagine this blah
blah blah like raspberry piie and then like 30 seconds later he gets to the
point in the video where I'm like blah blah blah raspberry pie imagine you know
you could have a land just by everyone bringing over like you know their their
favorite peripherals and like raspberry pies and like boom you're set up and
like with stuff like Oculus which I wasn't even talking about at the time
all of a sudden you're displays here all you need is like a game controller and a
Raspberry Pi and everyone could be running like seriously HD Plus graphics
on their heads I mean sitting okay tell me this is VR Gaming with a group of
people socializing okay hold on that might be a
whole separate topic yeah yeah but anyway they added a bunch of really cool
stuff so that was a really cool conversation with him super cool guy uh
he talked a little bit about what it's like working for the almighty Lord and
Savior gab Ben and uh how you know he like came in like right when he first
started he's only been there about a year which is really cool yeah he went
from like not working there to like
creating one of the headline features of Steam OS in my mind in like a year
welcome to being a valve employee exactly so he walked into gab Ben's office and he was like yeah this would
be really cool and gab Ben's like go build it and he's just like oh no I
don't feel ready yet so he went and worked on TF2 for a couple months and
then did some work on Steam OS and then like had another conversation with with
men who he calls Gabe but I feel not
worthy um so he had another conversation he's like yeah I really want to try this
and he's like make it so and so he started trying he started out trying to
prove that inhome streaming wasn't possible and it kept not kept on he kept
on like fixing it kept not working or kept working yeah the
disproving kept not working to the point where now we have this very usable
service and this latest batch of improvements looks pretty darn
impressive Hardware accelerated encoding via quick sync quick sync isn't the best
quality encoding in the world but what it is is extremely fast which is what
you need and on pretty much any Intel processor in the last couple of
generations as long as you're on a mainstream platform they also added Mouse emulation mode for controllers
toggled with guide a there were oh see ah see now okay I'm just going to go
through this list because I talked to him bu about a bunch of other crap that
like is not on this list and so maybe
shouldn't Cod want to accidentally talk about anything that's like going to be a
problem for don't bring that bridge before we get to go to valve yeah yeah
yeah okay something I did talk to him about is like could we maybe like get an
invite down there at some point and he didn't promise anything but like he
really liked our video about in streaming so seriously I think it like
made his month that's good to have us make that video and like get it and we
want to do an update just not now necess
I'll probably wait till it's out of beta um the other really cool stuff that they
added is a 30 megabit bandwidth option
which was before the maximum with an unlimited bandwidth option that's been
increased to 100 megabit so we could be seeing better image quality we wanted
that that's something we noticed when we were testing um settings to uh enable
traffic quality of service priority in the advanced host options um honestly
it's getting better like almost daily that was one of the challenges when I
was benchmarking it was the and I told him this I was like dude the bloody
thing was changing while I was trying to test it I I managed to find like two
days where you didn't do an update and I got my video done and then it updated
the next day and he was just like like Colon
D thank
you work too hard for some reason I signed out of my Google doc anyway in
home streaming got an update so that was that was the point of all that we can
stay on the valve idea yeah let's let's ride the valve train to like gaming
Enlightenment station I'm so free to play I'm finally almost done Portal 2
finally I thought you said you were finally done portal I thought I was I
have played like another two and a half hours I thought I was close to the end but I wasn't portals like that though
yeah portal makes you think you're like done and then it's just like oh nope by
the way no yeah um so yeah I'm still really enjoying it though it's fantastic
but I can't start Bravely Default till I'm done Portal 2 I'm determined to finish it first yeah so what valve news
do you want to do there's actually a bunch yeah I know it's like how much ass
can we kiss
you know what okay let's let's not let's not kiss up let's let's do let's do like
brutal valve news first okay look who doesn't hate Apple the one and only gab
Ben I don't know why this was okay holding an iPhone and an iPad we don't
know who this guy is but I just thought this fun some dude on Reddit um I I
don't know like I just think it's funny Steam Works on Mac I know like they they
like push Mac support yeah g man openly is hating on Windows lately not OS 10
and not not Linux that's why I was like why is everyone so surprised oh I just
well it's kind of like it's kind of funny it's probably not a matter of them
being surprised as more a matter of the
internet has like a culture like and
it's like there's like the internet culture and then there's like the internet Counter Culture you know and so
the internet culture went on this like apple thing and then like Android became
the counterculture and then when Android goes mainstream everyone will probably
want the cool kids on the internet will probably shift to something else and so
the cool kids on the internet right now ourselves included are all running
Android and expect that anyone who is a tweaker or like an Enthusiast is going
to be doing the same thing but he's an Enthusiast about other stuff he's not really a mobile PL I and a lot of game
developers use apple just throwing that out there like that's a thing um and uh
but yeah but that's I think why people found it so surprising was because they
would have expected him to be on whatever sort of the internet bandwagon
is I just I just personally don't care as long as his desktop that he's doing
all of his like work for Steam on is
actually it's not even probably he probably has a Mac so that he can work
on stuff for Steam on Mac he probably
has both it's it's gab Ben I fully expect him to have both I don't know I
didn't think this was that yeah he's worth like over a billion dollars or something so I think if he multiple of
both if he felt like having a Mac Pro I think it's a non-issue yeah okay uh
let's get into the new steam controller which is no longer
interesting still kind of interesting oh come on now we knew exactly what these
buttons were though which was kind of cool remember we called it out we were like the the ones on the right are going
to be abxy and the ones on the left are going to be Arrow buttons oh it's going
to be essentially a d-pad we said that and when they were unlabeled and now
they're like Boop Arrow buttons make for a terrible d-pad and valves should know
better that's all I'll say about the design I'll let you launch into what you
think about it I hate that but no one other than Nintendo has seemingly been
able to figure out d-pads in the last little while while even Nintendo
actually the one on the Wii was okay the one on the Wii Moe is actually not bad
um so like I don't know what's going on there maybe people just suck at making
d-pads nowadays but I don't know if maybe that has something to do with it
they don't like the D but I I would still rather a d-pad even if it was kind
of a crappy d-pad then buttons because it's just weird and I want a d-pad it's
still different because it has the touchcreen areas and it's still going to
enable you to play still not sold on those I'm not either um but it's still
different you know I think I would actually rather some totally janky
solution like a couchmaster versus being
stuck gaming with touchpads even if I was playing Civ
5 when's the last time you had an
opportunity to game on your notebook and you didn't just go to the extra effort
to go find a mouse gaming on a touchpad is terrible
yeah but then like I don't know it's terrible yeah it is
it's terrible the only reason why I always use the Civ 5 one is like I could
I could also say XCOM the new XCOM game
you could probably do it fairly easily with a touchpad but you know what I guarantee it works great with anything
that isn't a touchpad as well because that's just how that game is set up
right um so Civ is Civ is really the
champion for this controller but yeah I don't know I don't care like I'm going
to play Civ on my desktop because I'm going to be playing with other people
and then it's going to go so slow that I'm going to Tab out in between turns
anyways so like so I can do other things so I I don't really see it being that
big of a deal given valves openness what I would like to see because I I've held
the controller ergonomically I don't I don't have you know a ton of complaints
about it um I would like to see someone just adopt their design and get rid of
the touch pads and throw like joysticks in there because if you were to do that
and put a proper d-pad on it then all of a sudden now we've got some buttons on
the back chang everything except for the buttons on the back the thing that goes
in your palm and the abxy buttons or we
could all just go back to using SNES controllers because they're clearly Superior to everything else Xbox 360
Xbox 360 is okay but the d-pad is terrible yeah but you've got thumb
sticks you got thumb sticks but that's not great for
platforming for platforming that's all you want screw you I like platforming no
I play platforms all the time I'm just saying that's all you want to do that's
literally the only reason why you care I also still use a d-pad for other
and Okay and like you know what okay the shield I just traded you yeah um has
kind of a kind of a crappy uh a button
like it kind of sticks a bit did you notice already a little bit but it's like it's not that bad yeah I know but
it has a better d-pad than mine it's I
like the d-pad the d-pad is okay mine's very clicky I haven't played with it a
lot yet I only played uh one game in for not very long have you tried using gam
stream on it yet yes oh but your wireless is terrible in your place isn't
it um yes but I did upstairs there's a
dlink router in my car I did it like it's an AC dual band router I did it
close to the router right U when I was doing actual game stream and then I
ended up just watching a movie on it off my Nest right CU I was like this makes
sense yep you know what's funny the funny thing about Shield is I think
people didn't understand what it was and I think that's a lot of the hate people
were like it's a game console and that's what NVIDIA is pushing but I actually
disagree and then people were like oh I'd rather
game on my phone and I went well no this isn't a phone it's a tablet that's what
it is it's a small tablet and what makes
it a tablet is not the size of the screen what makes it a tablet is the way
that it comes with a stand in it that's the funny thing to me about it
the reason I completely stopped using my
iPad and started using my shield for everything I used to use my iPad all the
time almost every day now I use my shield almost every day is because it
sits on this controller thing yeah that
that I can like I can put it next to the bath or if I'm cooking it's always got
to it's always got to stand on it and how you can integrate like uh I haven't
been a huge push of Shield before but now I've actually had some extended Ed
with it which is really nice um how they actually integrated using like d-pad and
abxy buttons in the OS yes is freakishly
good yeah it's really good like I assumed it was going to be terrible and I was just going be touching everything
and I started that way and then I just like instinctively pressed B and was
like what yeah that works the UI is
really good it's to me it's a tablet it has great speakers so it's great for
Content watching um and you're not going to use it for uh like phone stuff you're
not going to phone someone on you yeah exactly so it's not perfect and I'm
really stoked for shield to like it needs Hardware volume buttons for the
love everything inidia what is up with that that's true but that's not the
worst thing it's not the worst it manageable um it needs to be lighter it
needs to be lots of things I'm not a huge fan of how it sits in your hands
you know what's funny is I wasn't at first and now that I use it more often
than I use an Xbox 360 controller the Xbox 360 controller feels kind of cheap
and crappy to me the shield has a really solid feel I like okay I like the weight
that's not what I don't like about it and the rubber grip is fine but it's like it's the weird it's just how my
fingers naturally sit on it is very odd give it some more time I'm going to and
very recently started using it so I'm going to I I should have given that to
you like months ago to use just because I talk about it so much it'd be great if
you had I know I know I just kept not getting around to copying all the data
off of it I'm basically a terrible
person um but yeah so far I've been enjoying it a lot wait before we before
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sponsors on our site yes we do there
they are all right so moving on to a sponsor
that um that we don't actually have listed on the site because we compiled
that list a long time time ago this is Dollar Shave Club and we've gotten a lot
of really positive feedback about this one already I've had a ton of people
message me telling me that okay yep I switched to Dollar Shave Club and it's
amazing it's awesome I I think most of them probably haven't even gotten their
initial orders yet oh we did the first integration like a couple weeks ago
right yeah they could have definitely got yeah they probably have yeah they probably have especially the US guys I
had some people saying like yeah the the razors are blanking great now I I'll do
I'll okay like their whole ad I'm going to switch over to my screen here for a
moment this is a fantastic ad and aside from what I'm saying during the show
here you guys should definitely watch it because their CEO is kind of a marketing
genius here so he basically walks through their warehouse talks about how
they're creating American jobs um they were able to bleep out the swear wordss
that go with their our blades are blanking great slogan uh talk about sort
of the the money you can save by switching to Dollar Shave Club versus um
going and buying razors at the store we talked about this at the beginning of the show but just the fact that there's
like you know an armed guard next to the replacement razor blades is just it
creates extra hassle when already I know
both of the people sitting in this room are just playing too lazy to go to the
store to buy new razors like okay what I would do is not as bad as you what would
you do I would like in my first
integration for Dollar Shave Club I made a joke where like I was using um a
hobbit replica sting and I was like maybe I can get one more shave out of
this Elven blade but I would do that as so I instead of having a razor blade
I've gone I've gone out 500 more shaves
like instead of using it for a week which is what Dollar Shave Club says
look use it for a week get a really nice clean shave and next month four more are
going to show up use them each for a week that is the way it should be done
the way that I would do it is I would use them for like 3 weeks and then you
were saying before the show started I I literally don't think I've bought razors
for a year and I think it was like I don't
even think I no I didn't buy them my mom got them for me not this Christmas but
the one before so it's been more than a year it's been like a year and what like
3 months almost four months it's been about a year and four months um since I
bought new razors that's disgusting and I just grind them against my face
because there some amount of metal there and it has some amount of an edge so
it's just going to eventually pull off all the hair all right so the service is
available in Canada the US and Australia
I'm going to go ahead fire up my screen here so for less than $10 a month for
even the executive which is their premium six blade razor that's like made
in outer space or something like that I
mean their marketing is really silly I kind of like these guys cuz they're just
they they're not too serious about it they're like yeah we have a service and
and like you know what it's razor blades man like there's only so much we can say
about it but look they're really good they're really cheap they're really
convenient because for me the big obstacle was just I didn't feel like
going and dealing with it so I would have my wife buy them after like the
three weeks some guy just said um looks at slick I never knew he didn't use
razors it's like I do man I do actually have to all the time there's a reason
why this sits here it's cuz it's way too much to deal with if it if I don't let
it so aside from their razors they have Dr Carver's easy shave butter which I
actually did try and it works um unlike
shaving is there an option so you can get like a cheaper set that doesn't have
the butter yeah okay yeah the the butter is an optional I know some people don't
use it cuz some people like me and they just shave in the shower yeah but it's
actually kind of nice because unlike shaving cream it's not opaque so it's
clear so you can kind of see what you're doing that's actually pretty aw and it softens up the hairs just like kind of
you'd expect and it smells really nice I don't know if you smelled it you smell
it yeah smells nice so and it's not like awkward to smell that like the a okay
cuz I got to bring these up too one WIP Charlie they the ad for this one
actually was like it was like awkward to
the point where he's like yeah he gets off a toilet he's like sometimes you
know you don't have time to jump in the shower and rinse off your butt so we
made these peppermint scented butt wipes for men one wipe Charlie and I really
just talking about these makes me feel a little uncomfortable but there you go
guys Dollar Shave Club bathroom supplies direct to your door once a month we've
actually had um there's someone walking by outside who's listening to me talk
about butt wipes for men and that's a little bit awkward but the point is
we've had over a hundred of our viewers already sign up for Dollar Shave Club so
chicken or dog and she was just staring out the window when he said butt wipes
from in okay okay I'm sorry yeah we got a
bunch of we got a bunch of people did I even tell you that yeah yeah like we've had over a hundred people sign up and
everything I've seen from people has been super positive so far so guys I
would love for you to drop me a line on Twitter and let me know any one of our
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that they're running right now so whoever it is we'd love to hear from you
guys that you're using it and that it's great and we'd also love to hear from
you that you're using it and it sucks yeah because we have the inside track
with these companies and if they're doing something that's making you unhappy a we don't want sponsors that
are making our viewers unhappy and we will cut them off if there is a problem
seriously we will cut them off and number two is because we're able to
bring your problem to their attention we can get it resolved for you pretty quickly most of the time so we'd love to
hear from you guys about that all right we had such a good rapport of people
around here I know and now they're going to be like they talk about butt wives in
their house what are they doing in there
wiping our butts what do you not wipe your butt that should be not going to help
things that should be our retort like do you think wiping your butts
gross oh God what's our next topic uh we
can do do we want to finish off the valve stuff yeah let's finish off the
valve stuff we don't have much longer on the show here I kind of went tangental
today yeah people that's all right yeah I guess as long as we do it okay then
it's all right all right valve's new film free to play is a bid to legitimize
professional Gamers post on the Washington Post you watched it right I
did watch it and while I think the angle
from the I'm GNA stop you who should watch it I honestly I'm going to send it
to my mom and dad I had a little bit of boats with this when I was younger and I
think my mom can relate to certain things that happened so I think my mom
will appreciate the movie I think my dad will just kind of find it interesting
because he's always come to packs with us and stuff even though he's not a huge
gamer he likes being with the group and
he it he canate it um but Gamers now
it's it's about DOTA right very
specifically it's about DOTA I don't really play DotA yeah go figure it's
they don't try to hide that that's one thing that I found in the Washington Post thing was that they're like oh my
God it's about DOTA and I'm like it's a documentary about DOTA out yeah good job
anyways sorry I'm going to rant more about that later but it's like you don't
have to necessarily appreciate or like DOTA to appreciate and like this
documentary I don't really play DotA much or ever at all and I don't really
watch it too much either um and I really enjoyed it okay really really enjoyed it
and I'm not a huge DOTA fan now that being said I used to be really big into
uh League of Legends and I was a bit into DOTA one and stuff like that and I've kind of dropped off I don't play
any mobas anymore right um that's just a personal thing I burn myself out I play
them way too much I have like hundreds and hundreds of hours in a few of them
so I'm just like okay I'm pulling off a little bit playing other things like I might jump back in the future I'm just
not that into it now pulling off or pulling out oh man I knew you were going to go there um but it's still really
interesting it covers some really interesting stuff and one thing that I really appreciated was while it is a
documentary about valve about DOTA they
didn't just thump the hammer the whole time they actually went into like these
are problems thump the hammer what does that even mean I was going to say drum but then I said Hammer it just didn't
work the ham cuz it would be like pound the drum you know that was the whole
point thump the drum wouldn't even be right it's close it it with a brick go
ahead anyways um so it it was
interesting to see like okay these are all the problems that these players have actually gone through and these are the
issues that they're having trying to be professional Gamers it's not easy
they're not making much money like it brought up all these problems like
despite it being a million dooll tournament a lot of them really didn't
make enough money to make a million dollars yeah no like and that was a
really interesting angle that they came around and it it it seemed more like a
push to legitimize gaming in general instead of being an advertisement while
still being a documentary by Valve about DOTA which I found really interesting
and coming from an angle where I'm not super interested in Dota much more
interested currently in Counterstrike another valve title but there was nothing in here about Counterstrike um
still super interesting okay so I I appreciate if you're into gaming on a
professional level at all like if you like watching professional gaming if you
like any of that kind of stuff or even if you're just a gamer I could see this being very interesting um and you don't
have to be very well versed to appreciate the film they explain
everything so I wouldn't worry about that either like I can show this to my
mom and she'll get it and it'll be fine one man Pizza says if you liked free to
play Go Google the Smash Brothers or the
Smash Bros apparently it's a really good uh gaming documentary as well yeah indie
game the movie is really good uh I watched that that was really good yeah
indie game the movie is great uh so these are those are all really
interesting things to check out um The Washington Post bringed up a few things
the Andrea Peterson was saying that it's an extended commercial an effective
extended commercial but definitely an extended commercial and they go through
the thing talking about how like they brought up they followed cliche
characters and I'm like it's a documentary man they call they followed
like captains of teams where do you think cliches come from and like it's
it's one thing too because um up with
friends that were trying to do it and myself trying to do it and like people that were wildly more successful than I
was and all this kind of stuff like we all went through this stuff so you're
wrong people from Washington Post it's really good that they covered that
because this legitimately happens your parents will be against you that being
said at the very beginning my parents were and then once they started to see
how into it I was they were totally
welcoming and happy about it um but definitely not everyone's are and they
covered that in this movie which really interesting I if if my son was like yeah
I'm going to be a Pro Gamer dad I'd be like no you're not like and these these
are things that should be covered and were covered and were really interesting
and they show like um the one guy's mom
being like this is really dumb like to his face in the documentary right and
I'm like that's good that should have been in this documentary and they're
like oh we didn't necessarily see that it's just really like cliche characters
and stuff and I'm like shut up that totally exist it's a documentary like
they should cover that stuff and they're like yeah they spent so much time looking at the different players and I'm
like thank you that's what I wanted to see they showed little Snippets from the
matches and a lot of the time it sometimes it was an actual clip from the
match and sometimes it was just like super heavily animated right and not
like actually the stuff from the match which I think actually helped it be
watchable by people that aren't super interested in Dota 2 I would have not I
would have been able to follow it just fine if there was more footage from the matches cuz I understand Dota 2 but not
everyone can and being able to show it to my mom that helps a lot right um and
like having one-on-one interviews with relatives right was really interesting
of the players and stuff like that like going heavily into their back stories
because it's a really difficult thing to get into it's incredibly difficult to
get into and they bring up the thing where like you're not going to be a Pro Gamer Beyond
29 right because your your reaction time is going to be too low and like the main
thing people usually think about that in is stuff like Counter-Strike but that
applies to pretty much everything and of course there's exceptions to the rule
but there's not very many right well just like teimo salani is still playing
hockey the guy's like 42 like there's exception but like one guy yeah yeah
yeah that's it so like it's it's interesting the stuff they bring up and
it's it's honestly it's a great documentary I've got a few people upset
that I would tell my son no you're not going to be a Pro Gamer um well I would
also tell my son no you're not going to be a professional football player
because in the real world you're
probably not if he's willing to fight
through the adversity of me telling him he's an idiot for trying then he stands
a chance if he's going to be his son he's going to have to fight through that kind of stuff yeah so I don't know
honestly like is that uh is that you know a correct parenting tactic oh I
don't know probably not I don't care um the reality of it is if you're not
willing to you know if you're not willing to fight for something that you
believe in and you're not passionate about passionate enough about to get
past you know your your your parents not caring about it you will not succeed
anyway I'm sorry no it's true uh that's very true and they cover that in the
documentary they show how much crap these guys have to go through and trust
me even the people that they didn't cover were going through that stuff um
no one's parents are going to go this is a very good career move don't go to
school play games all day you'll be successful I don't see anyone's parents
really doing that I can see parents going my mom and dad's wrote which was
pursue other things yeah but if you want to do this as as much as you want in
your free time go ahead and they'll support me with that that was fantastic
my parents did in my opinion a very good job right I appreciate that a lot um but
they also were kind of pushing like make sure and this is something I really
appreciated too and I still apply is don't necessarily lock yourself in with
one thing you need to have an exit strategy that's important I had someone
else ask um well lonus would you uh tell your kid not to be a tech YouTuber
absolutely what are the odds like what are the odds of su if anything the odd
odds of success being a professional Tech YouTuber are probably lower than
the odds of being a Pro Gamer at some level who is actually making a full-time
job out of being a tech YouTuber there's not very many like I can count them on
one hand probably like who is actually full-time Logan me Marcus
Austin uh El you're not counting the team component though I'm not counting
okay I'm not counting the team component okay okay so fine I could probably count
like the the lead guys that are like running Tech YouTuber companies maybe on
both hands cuz there's Detroit Borg I don't know if he does it fulltime and
there's there's like some other guys but even looking at Lou from unbox therapy
is another one so even looking at like a collab that he's planning a lot of the
guys participating are like still students and stuff like they're not
actually trying to turn this into a viable business yet even I mean even
Marcus is still a student yeah and like he's making enough money that he could
go full-time if he felt like it but he's not even he's one of the most successful
ones out there and he's not even banking on it and he's doing the backup strategy
thing the Ed strategy thing where if it fails there's an option I think that's a
really good point and I mean people would ask me this all the time before I went before I went independent and
people would say oh I want to be a tech YouTuber just like you and I'd say I'm
not a tech YouTuber I have a real job I'm a product manager that's an actual
job I do this Tech YouTube thing because it's like super fun and it's exciting
and I really enjoy it and I'm passionate about it and that is my point my parents
don't have a bloody idea what I do they have no idea they have never once bought
a video game or a piece of okay no no
they did they did upgrade our 386 to a
486 but that wasn't for like for like gaming or Hardware passion or anything
they've never actually bought me a piece of computer hardware want to be real
clear about that my parents have my parents did my the closest I got was my
uncle UPG his computer and I built his new computer for him and he gave me his
old computer as like like an attab boy
and this was a Pentium 1 166 mehz when Pentium 4S were on the market when I to
be clear when I pieced out my first computer I paid for it all but I when I
when I pieced it out my dad and I went to go pick it up and the the sales guy
was like do you have a monitor and I was just like
uh no Chrome monkey is bringing up some people who are not entirely YouTubers uh
Ryan Shrout is not a YouTuber like he he does YouTube videos and you can tell him
I said that quote lonus out of context Ryan Shrout is not a YouTuber uh but he
runs pcper pc.com is his bread and
butter that's a like a website that's web journalism as opposed to Dad I want
to be a tech YouTuber it's more than two hands it's but he's using
a what it's more there's more than two hands okay yeah okay fine there's more
than however many hands worth but the ones doing it strictly on YouTube I
don't know well if you include like are
you talking about just PC Hardware cuz Tech YouTubers okay Tech
YouTubers yeah there's probably tons of them yeah even then the odds are slim
and I wouldn't be a big fan of it if he was like yeah that's my master plan I'm
going to be like a tech YouTuber be like you got to have a real plan first
like have a plan for a 9 to-5 and then if you like if you like make it it's
kind of like professional athletes you know what the V majority of them go to
school and participate in School athletics and then make it that's
something too is like I I've my my brother does Starcraft casting locally
right so i' I've talked to some of the guys locally that are really good one of
them um who's like an awesome dude fire
Zerg I follow him around a little bit he's actually really good yeah um and
like a few of the other guys that they hang out with and stuff they go to this UBC Starcraft club right UBC University
of British Columbia Starcraft club they're all kids that are going to UBC
and also enjoy playing Starcraft and some of them are really good and could
probably make it professionally but are also going to UBC yeah so have a backup
plan I guess is the main point of thisly crap we could almost do I we we got
sidetracked today we could almost do a whole other show on like some of this
stuff in here yeah we went from not enough topics every week to like way too
many yeah H new CPUs from Intel okay
we're going to have to like Blitz this stuff you guys
so Intel's looking at doing an unlock God we haven't done any VR yet I know we
have done none of the VR and none of the improvements to direct X12 and openg GL
like we're screwed okay guys we're going to have to just Blitz this stuff
unlocked Pentium 20th anniversary edition uh we're going to be getting an
8 core core i7 extreme and and Intel is
talking about fixing the thermal interface material issue that they've
had with some of their processors giving you better temperatures and hopefully
improved overclocking personally I'm not expecting it to make a big differ
but the fact that Intel is listening to the Enthusiast community and addressing
it is a really good sign cuz they've basically come out and acknowledged like
kind ofing for a little while we've done some kind of crappy stuff and have not
acknowledged it at all so now we're getting a proper Enthusiast grade SSD
we're getting an eight Core Extreme Edition we're getting fixed thermal interface material it's like they're
listening to us and that's extremely exciting yay and thumbs up all right
Source here directex 12 that needs to start working there we
go all right direct X2 this is from NVIDIA's blog where the main notes here
and I'm just going to cut you guys off my screen so I can cheat and go back to
my notes um will be delivered sometime this year with enough time to see
shipping titles holiday 2015 forsa five
was already ped ped ped it was ported
from the Xbox One to the PC with DirectX 12 in four man months that's not bad you
could have four Dudes working on it for a month four Dudes or women whatever I
meant like dudes like people um not trying to I try not to be
sexist um so wom computers is becoming a bigger and bigger thing I know I know
and like that's good that's like great and I don't want to seem like you know
male chauvinist women can't you know code CU they can better than me my one
of my tutors when I was going to school was a a female and she's the best tutor
I've ever had that's like saying something racially sensitive being like
one of my friends is a black guy though not really okay it's not the same
thing at all
no okay that would be like me saying the insensitive thing and being like but I
know like one female coder so it's okay but I know a whole bunch like I know
what time okay anyway the point is uh fors of 5 was ported from Xbox One to PC
with directx12 in four people
months with big performance improvements direct X1 relied predominantly on one
CPU core to do the bulk of the work and it was able to distribute things a
little bit but we've had multi CPUs multi-core CPUs for years Microsoft I'm
glad that you're doing this now but I wish the Sleeping Bear had woken up a
little bit earlier and not waited for AMD to put all this work into mantle
which is basically in my mind a wasted effort at this point oh okay not wasted
effort mantle looks like a dead project to me but the fact that we're able to
get this Improvement in the industry with Microsoft improving DirectX giving
the developers more bare toetal sort of
ability to program for the gpus uh giving the developers the ability to
dramatically scale the number of draw calls um reducing the driver overhead
significantly and spreading it out over multiple CPU cores this is all in my
mind either a result of mantle or a result of Microsoft kind of looking at
what AMD was planning to do and going oh crap if the API isn't like direct X
anymore then like why would people game on Windows
uhoh and I'm glad that they're finally waking up and that they completed a goal
AMD said for a long time if if they ran away from this and maybe so the mantle
doesn't have to exist it's okay yep and they did say that I wasn't sure if they
were truthful about that but they said it that's true but they yeah regardless
they said it so so direct X12 could be leveraged on the Xbox One Windows mobile
but Microsoft has neither confirmed nor denied whether it will come to Windows 7
yeah I really wanted to please I don't
want to move up I'm completely happy with my we could be looking at orders of
magnitude better performance in some ways yeah we'd have to change over every
like like draw calls would be 10 to 100 times improvements in performance and
this is really exciting hardware-wise it's coming to any gcn AMD card however
we've noticed that just because something to every gcn card 7,000 series
all the way up to the newer stuff doesn't mean it actually works that well
on it yeah um so just throwing that out there and there's actually a fairly
noticeable difference between gcn1 and gcn 1.1 so there you go and it's coming
to every DirectX capable NVIDIA GPU so
that's fery Kepler and Maxwell AMD hasn't said anything about 5,000 series
or 6,000 series but I would I would expect that's not going to be coming all
right open GL improvements here we go Bo boom uh from
the NVIDIA blog if you want to get a developer's attention all you need to do
is start dropping whole numbers great
Point Adrien or ASU sorry how did I read
Adrian wow I got my eyes no
idea just read the A and then just made up the
rest that's all I need that's like skim reading to a
completely new level all right so an unlikely team of presenters got together
at GDC this I got a kick out of this but
Intel AMD and NVIDIA really weird I know right hosted
a session on openg and how openg current
modern openg could be used to reduce driver overhead to near
zero improving performance 1.3 times
like easily and then up to 7 to 15 times
with some optimization that is extremely exciting and unlike DirectX which was
like yeah it could work on like Windows phone openg can work on whatever you
want so we're talking any mobile platform pretty much any desktop
platform any I don't know you could probably run it on a toaster if you
really felt like it so openg GL is extremely exciting and while on the
desktop the performance I know the performance improvements are going to be
really important on mobile the improvements in battery life because
it's much more efficient to build multi CPUs then High performing
single-threaded CPUs the improvements in battery life on mobile that we can that
we can achieve by leveraging openg as a
as a way to reduce overhead and as a way to utilize more cores is extremely
exciting all right let's move on to the Snowdrop engine Holy balls this thing
looks outstanding so there's a video which
basically everyone should just go watch this is on hexus.net but this thing
looks amazing and the main points here
to take away are that they've created a way of working with the engine that like
obviously it's not this simple but in the demo they're just like dragging and
dropping things and like drawing lines to connect um different elements like
actions as well as objects and events
and uh basically the idea is aside from
looking absolutely amazing let's see if I can find the part with the burning
buildings because it just looks so good
like look at the cityscape where's the burning building I want the
burning building I don't have enough time for this crap literally we're already over
time I know people got to go home they
get to their families they might already be home whatever there's a car with lights on it that's kind of like
building good enough we'll settle for that all right so what do we got going
on here I go back to my notes because
there's a lot of stuff I don't remember system so the yeah okay so nodeb
scripting system allows all objects and actions to be connected allows the artist to focus on creativity rather the
mundane tasks it'll be available first in Tom Clan's the division later in 2014
and this was really cool also in the video it allows easy experimentation and
testing of whatever is being worked on so the video shows patterns being
altered with just like a slider on the side of a helicopter and like a little
robot just like walking around in a test environment where you can like put stuff
for it to step on and you can test it and look at how it's going to work
unity5 has been announced moving on to the next thing this is from Tech crunch
I'll jump in once we better lighting better audio and early support for
plugin free browser games wow really
cool really cool wow okay I'll let you
cover this um okay so what I was really expecting when I saw this and lonus
probably remembers me saying this is uh not surprised on the timing because this
coming out and unity being such a big force in the VR scene with oculus I
assumed it was going to tie in something really heavily with oculus but it
actually seems the main thing are the web stuff so plug-in list support for
browsers um like early access web GL
support like all this kind of stuff audio systems lighting stuff like that
all being brought into Unity which is really cool because Unity is such a heavy hitter when it comes to Indie
Games and then allowing them all to access this kind of stuff is very cool
obviously this is also going to go to Oculus and people have been talking
about how while this is very cool a lot
of this was actually able to be brought in if you were like a really technical
user you could apply all this stuff yourself with mods and whatnot but this
is now easily done by anyone so that's actually really important in my opinion
um there's also a video of new features for Source 2 which is really cool um and
then we should probably move on already Revan Stig says shut up about Oculus oh
that ain't happening no the mantle and true audio
patch for thief has been released I got to wonder how many of the
people who cared about Thief have already watched or already played it
yeah I you know I did I tell you I stopped
completely after I got the benchmarking run I just quit because I was like the
audio in this game is too messed up for me to care going to wait well at least
true audio may help things so Tom's Hardware actually has some benchmarks of
uh Thief running with true audio and mantle I haven't looked at these yet so
so that's interesting butm let's have a look theme frame rate
lowest detail preset why we been looking at this okay normal details here we go
normal so here's directex versus manle oh we're looking at some pretty
significant improvements so here's a 270 which um it's not even a super high
powerered graphics card and an 8350 which is a pretty decent CPU and we're
looking at like wow like 30% Improvement in performance oh of minimum but that's
the most important thing anyway minum okay yeah I was like that seems very low
for a really weird reason makes no sense no I was looking at minimum FPS that's
pretty impressive um positional audio was just completely broken in the game
but it may actually be fixed now you should give it a shot May that's what I wanted to bring up with this is I'm I'm
probably going to try it again now because positional audio is brutal before there could be someone two floors
below you walking around and he sounds like he's exactly beside you on the same
level I like what is this because the way the game was always supposed to work
was with um shoot now I forget what it's
called convoluted Reverb so that means that audio was supposed to be like
dynamic IC and real time and like instead of being a scripted or like um
you know pre-done effect like when someone's
underwater like it was supposed to just the the the audio was just supposed to
like bounce off stuff in a natural way and so it was like completely broken out
of the gate but now with true audio AMD users who happen to be running like
three different cards um can use their Hardware DSP to accelerate the true
audio convoluted Reverb stuff but don't worry guys you can still use it you can
just offload it to your CPU um those performance improvements noted on
certain resolutions like uh what is it yeah 4 4770k with a 270x and I believe
it was 1440p got like a 1 FPS Improvement right so I it's like this is
the same story that we talked about before where it really matters on the
whole combination of your setup how well it's going to work out for you right um
but yeah anyways moving on all right uh
do it all right so Project Morpheus um I'm G to jump on specs real quick and
then jump on things that aren't specs after that so it's going to be a 1920 by
1080 screen I'm going to do a bunch of verses here at the beginning so 1920 by
1080 screen and I'm going to compare this to development kit 2 from Oculus so
I'm comparing the spec out probably
release version of Morpheus with the current developer version of oculus not
the release version of oculus cuz we have no idea so 1920 x 108 screen on the
release version of Morpheus and 960 by
1920 per eye on the Oculus one uh
Morpheus will have a 90° fov and the dev
kit 2 for Oculus is going to have 100 degree fov um you're going to be able to
integrate your PlayStation camera and PlayStation move to take in part uh
skeleton movement from the camera and like hand movement from the move or whatever like that which is actually
really cool um because that's stuff that isn't like first party support from Ulus
at least well the camera is but like you're going to have to get like a Hydra
or um I can't remember the name of it but that other six a no not six axis
that was the hydro the two Hand one no but the the other thing that's coming out that looks like handles made by the
same company that does that made Hydra for them I can't remember I don't
remember what it's called but that thing that's not out yet or something like
that which could be really expensive um it's going to be a 5-in panel it's going
to be used HDMI and USB but they have been corded hopefully won't be a thing
it'll hopefully be Wireless at some point so that could be on release we're not sure yet uh it's going to be a 5 in
panel now we're going to get into some quotes problems with these quotes before
I even say them they're both from people at Oculus these are the main quotes I
found so far they're obviously going to be negative because they're people from
Oculus that being said Sony has approached Oculus and is trying to work
together with them so that's a rumor that's a rumor allegedly so there's um
I'm hold on I'm gonna find it because I've got it in the dock here sure I'm just so there's a post on Reddit where
um here it is so guys I'll post this in
the I'll post this in the chat so you guys should check this out after but it's basically just saying okay
allegedly Sony and Oculus may be looking
to work together on VR game development because Sony's solution isn't going to
work on a PC and Oculus solution isn't going to work on a console so there's no
real competition between them from a hardware perspective they might as well
enable game developers to have a larger platform to launch their games on which
is why e Valkyrie while it's an exclusive for Oculus is also an
exclusive for Morpheus it's an exclusive for both of
them which is really interesting and shows kind of a a backbone behind just
like our relationship is exclusive oh God yes it is um so those quotes as we
jump into it now is John carac saying calibrate PS4 VR expectations a game
that ran at 60 FPS on PS3 could be done in VR on
PS4 um but it's gonna have to have run at 60 FPS on PS3 so it have to be a
1080p game at 60 FPS on PS3 to be able to run on Project Morpheus that's from
John carmac John carmac has extremely high expectations whenever it comes to
anything to do with displays and he's on Oculus his team which no matter what you
think about platform usability they're still competitors he just kind of says
whatever he wants though he does he totally does so I don't know I think I
personally think he has a really good point but bar bear in mind that it's
each side of the fence another quote this is coming from um Palmer like CEO
of oculus and this is fairly old actually uh consoles are too limited to
do what we want to do so if you're looking at a VR perspective and one of
the biggest Pioneers in that industry and they're saying this thing is too limited to be able to do it now one of
the reasons behind that quote actually was um the platform being very locked
down you can't like upgrade graphics on a PlayStation um and that was actually a
lot of the reasoning not NE neily that it's currently not powerful enough blah
blah blah blah blah um that being said every single demo that I have played I
have not played e Valkyrie on an Oculus yet and they're saying that it's going
to work on Playstation anyways so I don't know what to say about that but every demo that I've played on an Oculus
would easily run on a PS4 that being said a lot of them are kind
of tech demos so far showing how it
works not supposed to be fully-fledged games so we'll see that more in the
future uh they have a bunch of really interesting Partners like epic games
krych Autodesk unity and more and they're also going to be showcasing
things like demos of Eve and Eve Valkyrie sorry and Thief so that's
actually really interesting um funny story the demo was
running on a uh Windows 7 PC and that's
like I mean this is just typical we're not surprised yeah this happens every
bloody time there's a new console refresh or whatever else it happens with
XBox exclusive games it happens with PlayStation exclusive games which aren't
supposed to be able to run on PC and they're running on a PC that makes me so
mad it's like you already have the PC version just releas it um but yeah so
like that actually wasn't surprising at all but it's still funny to joke about
another thing that happened this week was what I was kind of just talking about was oculus rift development kit 2
came out and everyone in their mom bought one so in 36 hours why is my
notes gone on this there it is 12.5 th000 units sold in 36 hours that's
4.375 million of Revenue and they
haven't even actually released a commercial product yet yeah so I'll get it the commercial product thing soon so
more specs on this I already talked about some of it just to give you a refresher it's 960 by1 1920 per I 100
100 degree fov and now refresh rates they've made the refresh rates a lot
better that's wrong why is this
changed um I'm like sure that's wrong
but you want to check the ref I'll check it real quick
sure this is your baby man yeah why was
that changed anyways um it's luckily I
recognized is that it's up to 75 HZ running at 75 72 or 60 HZ refresh rate
which is really interesting that actually makes a surprisingly big difference yeah um my 30-in monitor my
305t I wasn't able to like crazy overclock it or anything to like you
know 100 Herz or whatever but I did remember we went through this I managed
to get it running at like 72 MH and it
makes a really big difference Y and especially when things are that close to
your face any amount of latency or lag is really no
um so that is supposed to help a lot I haven't tried it yet um but who knows
low persistence so we're looking at 2 milliseconds 3 milliseconds or full
which is going to be really interesting that's coming in with the OLED display
being able to switch on and off so that there isn't a frame sitting there for a
really long time this comes in again any amount of latency or lag is very
noticeable when it's that close to your face and when you're when you're that uh
when the presence is that high when you're that in gr ingrown in this thing
if there's any amount of latency it feels really weird your brain is going
to have issues with that so that's probably going to help it as well uh
it's going to have a gyroscope accelerometer and a magnom meter which
is not super surprising and a built-in latency tester which is actually really
cool so this is going to be U motion to
to to uh pixel essentially so you better
explain exactly what that means so if you move and there's supposed to be
Motion in the game how long does it take for that to actually appear on the
screen because that's going to feel really weird and that's going to really
disconnect you from The Experience if you go like this and it takes a few
seconds and it's like and that's the main reason why people liked Oculus
already was a lot of VR experiences in the past had this issue where you turn
and then it would catch up and it would kind of like this actually happened
where you you'd turn and then it would go like past your vision because it's
predicting and then it would like slot back you turn it just did this thing all
the time um so that was already really good and now it's supposed to be a lot
better so that's going to help a lot um there's there's the external camera
which we saw in Crystal Cove so it has tracking ireds all across the front now
there's problems with this um and this has been voiced by a lot more people
than just me but especially in games like uh Valkyrie if you want to flip
over in Valkyrie so you go like this and
there's tracking IR LED camera sitting right in front of you and you take all
those IR LEDs and go nope you can't see them anymore there's probably going to
be issues I've played roller coaster games where I've done a 180 in my chair
the camera can no longer see my my irls
there's there's going to be some interesting stuff with this and that comes into a quote from pmer saying DK2
development kit 2 is really for developers it not for consumers we don't
need consumers to buy this we don't want consumers to buy this because the
consumer version is really going to be so much
better I'm buying one and I've recommended some people buy them
but that was based on the rumors that
DK2 was going to be pretty darn close to the release version that was partially
based on that yes and it's based on the main people that I'm recommending it to
are people that are going to just play with it a lot no matter what and they'll get a lot of usage out of it so it'll be
okay but don't buy this expecting for
everything to be like sugar and cream
it's not all just going to work out of the gate there isn't a ton of things that work really well with it yet you're
going to be playing a lot of tech demos or not playing with it um there going be
a lot of things that are different with the release version um and he wants to
make that clear he's and he crushed expectations on multiple platforms of
people saying that it's the that DK2 is going to be the same thing as the release version which I actually thought
was fairly true because most of the rumors have been fairly true so far and
that was a pretty big rumor um one thing that they're interested in doing is
making uh integrated audio because they're tired of big clunky headphones
again with the valkyrie uh idea if you
flip your head over and your headphones fall off that's really immersion
breaking that being said it's going to increase the cost and I'm probably just
going to want to replace them so right I
don't know hopefully they maybe have a model that doesn't have it built in
that's going to be on the consumer version so maybe but again I also doubt
it it's probably going to be on every single one they'll probably go Model T style you can have any color you want as
long as it's black yeah yeah so like wouldn't be surprised if that's a thing
at all um but we'll see it's it is definitely going to be removable that is
something that he said so you can take them off or just not use them or
something CU I want to use my own earbuds yeah your own earbuds or your
own headphones if you come up with some solution so they don't fly off your head or something like that like people are
going to want to do their own thing he realizes that he knows that uh he's a
audio freak anyways my headphones would probably be kind of awesome cuz like the
uh it comes like this like it doesn't sit in the same spot as the headband and
they clamp quite tight yeah so like it might work mine won't at all mine will
go flying right off my head so I I know I'll have to figure something out but
I'll probably just wear euds so like I don't I don't know not a big deal but
like yeah guys don't necessarily go rush and buy this I know a lot of people did
a lot of people that I sit in the team streak with and talk on the Afterparty with have like all bought it and I'm
like guys
guys maybe no all right our last topic
of the day Walmart announces video game
tradein program for store credit so I guess the advantage of trading in your
games at Walmart versus anywhere else is
that you can buy whatever you want with the credit you get you could go in and
literally trade Super Smash Brothers for
eggs if you really really wanted to and then since you're like a Smash Brothers
player you'd probably want to like throw them at people or something do they have eggs and SM I don't think so I don't
know where I was going with that I know they don't have eggs and Smash Brothers
well there isn't there that one character who's an egg character uh the
last one I played was brawl so I don't remember anyway not the point games but
not consoles can be traded and they actually started this pilot program back
in 2009 and you need the retail box for
the game so folks trading in much older games are probably still going to need
to go to gam spot or something like that and the program for the resale of used
games that come in is not open yet but is going to be coming later this year
but employees are able to buy them already the average credit payout credit
payout per game is $35 which seems like something that
they're bragging about now but will not be able to sustain later yeah because
they have to make money on it otherwise how is this going to work and we lied
and there's another topic um do you want to talk about this at all or are you able to able to
yeah what do you mean well the thing
that the are you able to talk about
it I have oh no okay forget it okay so
wild star there's a there's a 20% coupon code pre-order I guess that's all we
really have to say guys thank you for watching the show if you are wondering
if there will be a garage sale after the show where we get rid of some stuff on
Le cheep um yes there will be that is
one of the things that will be in the garage sale today so um stay tuned and
uh uh before we go oh just so everyone knows the build logs submissions thread
will be closed soon there's exactly two
because people saw them and were like I give up so pretty sure we know who's
going to win next
week come on guys anyways yeah
bye I'll be back in a minute
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