 I'm gonna go away. Good. Bye, Jenny. We'll see you afterwards Sorry At the end of the day making free content doesn't come cheap show your support for the independent content You're listening to right now at patreon.com That's patreon.com forward slash A-C-E D-T-E-C-T This is the Daily Tech news for Friday, August 28, 2015. I'm Tom Merritt joining me today again Mr. Lamar Wilson the internet's very own at youtube.com slash Lamar Wilson. How's it going Lamar? Go on. We'll get to see you once again. We gotta stop doing this. You know what's going on? I think we should I think we should make it a regular habit frankly. I like it We had some gaming insight from Lamar on Wednesday, and we got more coming as we're gonna talk about VR headsets Later this episode, but also joining us as he does on Fridays to illustrate the episode. Mr. Len Peralta Master of art prom. Hey a while. I haven't heard that in a while. Thank you so much for bringing that up Yes, I am the master of art prom and it's always great to be here on a Friday All right Sorry We'll get to work on that. Let's get to some headlines Deckard reports that avid life media CEO No, beaterman is stepping down avid life media Of course the parent company of Ashley Madison says beaterman's exit is a mutual agreement And that the company will be led by senior management until a new CEO can be appointed Wow, that's you just they're like, we don't even have anybody to fill it. Just get out of here My question is what took so long. I mean like this. Well, what was he doing the last few days? You haven't heard from anybody in the company, but yeah, he's like, you know, we'll figure I mean, I'll do it if they want me to not want There you go, ladies and gentlemen Lamar Wilson has put no more forward This company it I I still think there's a higher percentage chance that this company survives than people think Really because stranger things have happened on the internet, but yeah, it's it's probably going down. Oh, you know It's it's not the Ashley Madison CEO. It looks like they never had a CEO of the site It's the avid life media and they they have several sites. Yeah, so you're right They're probably that's that's still a big dead weight around their leg. It's gonna be hard to combat Google announced the beginning September 1st 2015. That's this year. Chrome will begin pausing many flash ads by default Visitors to an affected site will see a gray box where the flash ad would have been and a dialogue box asking if the flash plugs should be run Or hidden Google recommends to advertisers that they convert their flash ads to HTML 5 and and actually Google's been working with Adobe on this sort of thing Yeah, I it was interesting. I was just thinking, you know, they go to these other third-party. Hey, you got some nice ads here Be ashamed of something happened to them You know, if you use Google you won't have it'll automatically convert your a flash ads to HTML 5 Which is true by the way So yeah, there's a little bit of a hint of that isn't there later. I mean if you were using Edwards, this wouldn't be a problem What? Hmm. Hmm. Yeah, I'm still glad that flash is going away and that adobe is Okay with that that they've you know made their piece with it I wonder how many people will actually choose to play to run the flash Advertising if they see this gray box like how many people would actually go. Oh, no, I would like to see that flash ad Please please inject me with malware. I don't have enough hardly any And gadget reports the introduction of Android Auto desktop unit Which is a way for developers to test their auto apps without having to pay for an in-dash system and install it in their car The Android Auto desktop unit runs on Windows OS 10 and Linux and works with a companion app running on Android 5.0 lollipops you plug the Android phone by USB and your computer and it will communicate with the Android Auto desktop as if it were communicating with a car So it makes it a lot easier for folks to develop apps for the car. Yeah, that they already had that Facebook announced by Monday they announced today that on Monday most people in the world still did not use Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted that quote on Monday one in seven people on earth used Facebook It's 14% of the world Facebook reached 1 billion users in October 2012 1 billion active monthly users in April 2014 And this is their milestone on Monday. They reached 1 billion active daily users on that for that particular I was gonna say I don't think they announced it the way you said it to begin. Did I change did I change the perspective on that? Different yeah, yeah, did I did I point out that 86% of the world didn't use Facebook? I went and looked I didn't use Facebook on Monday. I saw you suit on that. It was really funny. Yeah So and someone treated me back. They're like you're one of the 85 percent In a prepax press release valve says HTC will offer the first commercial VIVE units via a limited quantity of community and developer systems Later this year with larger quantities shipping in Q1 2016 the Verge notes that will coincide with the releases of Oculus Rift and possibly Sony's project Morpheus, which is expected to come out in the first half of 2016 we're gonna talk about the fate of VR as it looks like we're gonna get like a three-team launch in the first half of next Year, but what just real quickly Lamar, what do you think of valve saying yep? We're launching in 2015 launching in 2015 Okay, we're gonna have a limited number of sets available for particular people in 2015. It almost feels forced Yeah, yeah, I think they just need to they need to just get it done and then and then roll it out when it's ready I do think they're trying to I don't know if it's trying to get me come first or Just to be have the mind share first, but it is forced. You're right. Yeah I'd almost rather they said that we're not gonna ship till 2016, but we're gonna make more developer units available I know it's the same exact thing, but it just seems like that forward Yeah TechCrunch notes that an Amazon pre-order page for the Huawei watch Lists compatibility with iOS 8.2 that would make it the first Android Wear watch to work with the iPhone Currently the pebble which is not an Android watch and of course the Apple watch work with iOS the Amazon listing also says the 1.4 inch circular AMOLED watch ships September 2nd in prices ranging from $350 to $800 so still waiting to see if there's any clarification from Huawei on this, but could be really interesting It's a nice-looking watch a little bit expensive, but it's pretty and if it's Android wear with iPhone that could help it get a leg up Yeah, I think you have the same it won't have the same functionality as Apple watch, but like just like the pebble you can still do notifications and most basic stuff on it. So Oh The Huawei the Huawei page is no longer loading And I checked it maybe an hour ago, and it was so That that may there may be something going on there. This may not be as good as we hoped sadly That would be cool though Washington Post recaps a Google self-driving cars encounter with a cyclist on a fixed-gear bike Both vehicles stopped at a four-way intersection car had the right of way So the cyclist performed a track stand Shifting ever so slightly forward and back in order to maintain balance The Google self-driving car stopped and started in reaction to the movement of the biker and the cyclist said that this dance went on for About two minutes with two guys inside the self-driving car laughing and punching stuff into a Yeah This is how we learn like everybody laughing at this and it is funny and it's funny to the guys in the self-driving car because they're like Oh, this is acting weird But this is how self-driving cars get better as you realize Oh a guy on a fixed-speed bike who can do a track stand and not move but is rocking forward looks The way we've programmed the algorithm Exactly like a biker that's about to move forward and we program the algorithm to be really cautious So it's waiting. That's something we need to address and I think that's really cool The bicyclist said he felt safer around the self-driving car because of that than he did around any human-driven car Yeah, so I mean this is funny I think I'm amused by it as well, but I also think like yeah, this is this is right This is good and Google is now doing research out in Austin by the way, which I did not realize oh We get a lot of our stories from our subreddit dailytechnewshow.reddit.com Many of the stories you've heard already come from there So thank you to everybody who submits now we we've been doing a survey and a few people just a couple people I think I might know that they are people who really wish their stories would get picked up Have have complained that they hear from the same people all the time We just choose a couple of highly voted stories to highlight in our news from you section every time We don't choose them based on who they are so if they're getting mentioned more often It's because you guys are voting and if you think the world maybe that's not enough votes Then get in there and vote dailytechnewshow.reddit.com Complex one noted the recode story that Google has published code that will allow app makers to disable Apple's app Transport security in iOS 9 in order to allow mobile ads to run and it does not seem to violate Apple's rules Google wrote on Thursday to angry security researchers to be clear developers should only consider disabling ATS the app transport security if other approaches to comply with ATS standards are unsuccessful and Also Apple has previously given similar instructions both in a conference or in a session at WWDC and on its developer website So it's it's saying app transport security is something we're implementing We wish you would implement it if you can't implement it yet There's a workaround for it and Google's just making that work around more available because they're an advertising company Right. So just so I'm clear. Is this the future? I was nine words completely disabling No, this is different than that ad blocking. This is this is in-app security so that your ads are encrypted and This is a way to get around the encryption And and deliver ads the old-fashioned way Which a lot of security people rightly point out Well, that what's the point of having the app transport security if you can just get around it And I think the point is Apple is putting in an iOS 9 to encourage people to start using it and have more securely delivered ads And that eventually they will make it a requirement and they won't allow people to work around but they're allowing workarounds for the time being Is my that's my guess. That's not what they've said and of course, you know I mean who get who would guess that Google the owner of double-click would be putting out these these Workarounds as well my wife works at Google tNinja 3000 sent us the engadget report that 7,000 New York City cabs are testing a new ride hailing app called arrow ARO Users get the driver's name and medallion number and can pay and tip from the app plus There's no surge pricing app works with cabs that use creative mobile technologies for the video screen and arrow is talking to Verifone The to be able to work with most of the rest of the cabs in the city I think this is the big test case can Existing cab companies compete with uber and and they need a company like arrow to help them do that And I actually hope this works because more competition better and I'd like to see you the cabbies get their do Yeah, I think it's good to the only issue I have with this besides the technology is that our people leaving traditional cabs necessarily because of the convenience or they leaving it because of the experience of Dealing with taxi cab drivers and in general, so they'd be interested to see what once there's a level playing field You know, is it who's providing the better service? Besides the calls because some people pay a little bit more to get a get better service Yeah, and this will I think this is good because it takes that element of convenience out of the equation It says hey, you can be standing on a corner Request a cab and the cab will come so if it was just convenience now You can choose a cab as easily as you can uber If you're like well, but I prefer the uber experience then you'll choose uber and that's that's what I mean Like hopefully that then pushes the cab companies to improve their experience in the cabs as well Excellent. Yeah, and that Is a look at the headlines All right, so HTC Vive limited quantities Essentially for most of us it's going to launch in Q1 2016 Oculus Rift has already planned a Q1 2016 launch. We should get pre-orders for Oculus Rifts later this year Project Morpheus shipping first half of 2016 so it might come a little later than the other two, but not too much later I'm not counting Google Cardboard. I'm not counting Gear VR here because those are mobile solutions And I think as good as they are they are significantly different when you stick a phone in something and get a VR like experience Then it is when you have an Oculus Rift otherwise Oculus wouldn't sell an Oculus Rift and be cooperating with Samsung on the Gear VR So I'm setting those aside and saying yeah, you can get those now. That's not the same as the full-on experience So Lamar I started a a reddit thread on our subreddit I saw that and I asked people you know What will be the outcome of this because by June if all goes right? We'll have three platforms to choose from Yeah, this feels like the the gaming war is all over again with the Xbox ps4 and the Wii U Who's gonna come on top? Does there have to be a winner? And what kind of exclusivity? Well, it doesn't have to be one winner, right? I guess what I'm wondering is by December of next year Will we say that VR is a failure? You know will we say oh there's obviously a couple of great uses for this and it happens to be games and this other thing What will that other thing be like what will we what if you had to guess will we be thinking by the end of 2016? I think there will be some that will jump on a failure train It's like they did with 3d TVs, you know, then didn't really go anywhere But a lot of people do like them. I think VR is not Going to hit mainstream the way they look and the way they act right now It is so that's the that's the The way we look at it for for failure success if you look at the mainstream then yeah It'll it'll fill in that in that sense because you almost need to have the Xbox connect type of experience in VR And I and what I mean, you know you stand in front of something and you you feel like and you see yourself immersed in the game you know if they can get to that point where you don't have to wear a lot of equipment and You spear something with somebody next to you can experience it because they don't have one to you know that there's always gonna be a beard entry Video games is a no-brainer right? I definitely see yeah, there will be video games Yeah, and people will be buying these headsets to play them. You're absolutely right after that's a no-brainer I think there is some medical uses for sure It maybe maybe that's the field that takes that takes a hold of it stronger than others But no, I don't see the the mainstream not for another few years And so these things are just dead simple to use I was watching a verge video It was just so many I know it's a prototype But just if you look at it just the cables and the the wands that she has the owner hand It just it looks too cumbersome for the average person to want to want to try out now our Clover shadow run listed a through Q things that It'll be used for he this this poster thinks you know virtual training and education content and app development New take on 3d modeling tools war Opens it to everything. I don't think all of these things will be hit uses of VR by the end of 2016 But one one thing he said that I think is really interesting to explore is first-person entertainment experiences Such as interactively exploring the ocean from a divers perspective which discovery VR has already launched With 360 videos on YouTube that you that are meant to be viewed in an Oculus They're not available for that yet, but they say that that compatibility is coming So there's some stuff that was done by mythbusters. There's some some diving stuff I mean essentially what discovery did with discovery HD theater. They want to do with VR. It sounds like now That sounds awesome. I'm really big into those kind of videos. So that'd be yeah, really cool And then he also says virtual sex and no joke Lots of people in our reddit thread said look the porn industry legendarily Decided who won the format wars for videocassettes and a lot of people credit blu-ray Success to that industry's decision. I mean will history repeat itself with VR? I'm honestly surprised reddit will say something about I mean, yeah, and not all honesty Yeah that that industry makes sense again not mainstream not not something that the news can just You know talk a brag about and you know put on TV for for kids to see but yeah I definitely the one that was interesting was G and it kind of made me remember being in a classroom Just that virtual education. There's a lot of kids who are who are even doing homeschooling now and virtual school online school and And I you know I could see some applications for that feel like you're sitting in the classroom Having a virtual teacher or you know or an actual teacher. We'll see what I wanted when I want to experience Google showing that that off with cardboard. I think where they're saying it's so cheap. You can put some tablets in it You know and that that's pretty cool Like that is the kind of thing you can go on a virtual field trip And I don't think it has to just be Google that does it right? I think that you're absolutely right It can be for virtual training does it does seem like gaming movies and porn are the three most commonly mentioned Uses in this thread And I know that's probably gonna be it for this year and they all seem kind of sad because it's all so low Spirit like I'm just you know It's I want to see this where you can have a friend or over to or or group and experience something cool Yeah, I mean yeah, I know there's a lot of you know loners and I'm not I'm not saying anything bad about people But you know where there's in the you know the gaming or tech industry there There's people who would like I just I wish there was well and the the movie theater experience is one that's interesting Right because you can virtually be in the same theater as other people and be sitting next to them and see them Even though you're not in the same location. So You know it kind of depends on how it's applied and how it's delivered It could it could bring you into the same room as a lot of people that you're not in physical proximity to yeah You know especially I will I would love to see people who are in firm people who are you know Maybe you know they had some injuries, but I can't walk anymore. They can't get out This that would be this would be fantastic I mean no those are those human intro stories that you will hear about and make that make VR attractive Yeah, when you hear about those kind of things someone who's you know lost their legs and in the war or whatever it Right, right, but they can still get out and have fun with their friends a waffle off I guess pointed out that music videos already being done in 360 for minor actually has some 360 music videos And he says another use may be less known at the college recruitment fairs I work for home depot has been showing off their use of the oculus showing people what their newly renovated bathroom would look like If they chose a particular color of tile a particular paint color It could also do wonders as far as showing what people who are building and renovating their houses Can do to the house and see what it looks like interesting now is this Is 360 video different from this because I tested a 360 camera, and I didn't really like it You know that's in the back back to them. So it are they're parallel or be two different things Yeah, I think that's going to be something that we will suddenly have to grapple with which is which is 360 video Which is VR and is a 360 video always a good VR experience and vice versa I went to the discovery VR YouTube page and I could watch the videos and I could move them around with my cursor because they're 360 VR, but they looked a little weird because they're met You know, they've got that tunnel vision that is meant to be wrapped around you So it's not exactly the same thing You've got a different perspective you need to show if someone's watching it on a flat screen versus watching it on VR Absolutely. Yeah, I'm excited for it. Just as a I was gonna say first responder that is absolutely not the term early adopter Yeah, as early adopted definitely want to try it out. Well when we're so excited about it that we pass out Then we might need the first Hopefully not Well, there you go. There's our thoughts. Let us know your thoughts feedback at daily tech news show com or jump into daily Technewshow.reddit.com and and you can add to that thread and talk with the other folks in there It's a good idea in here. What's that? It's a good idea. Oh, yeah. No, there's this is a smart group You know all reddit jokes aside our subreddit has some really thoughtful And and really smart people so you won't regret it if you go check out that thread. We'll put in the show It's our pick of the day comes from me Yeah, as I mentioned as I disclosed earlier my wife works for YouTube And so she got the Google discount on a nest thermostat and we're way behind on this I know I know it's been out for years They're probably gonna put out a new one tomorrow since we just picked one up But I was impressed at how easy it was to install and I have to say I now get the fact that they say You don't need any special knowledge or tools They even give you a little screwdriver in the box to install an S thermostat if you're comfortable with general household products I definitely would not give this to some people knowing that even with the screwdriver in there They're just gonna get confused by the wiring diagram, but it's a pretty simple wiring diagram They give you great they give you great instructions. They have an excellent video online that you can watch and go through It's not right for every system one guy on the YouTube video I did about the nest complained that it's not good for dual fuel heat pump systems, and that's correct They tell you that up front in fact There's a sticker on the box when you open it saying go here and make sure your thermostat system will work with this before You open it because then you can return it without having to pay the restocking fee But man since I put it in I've I just I just adore it Because it's just so easy to adjust the temperature and it does the learning thing or it knows Oh, you turn it up a little bit more than that you turn it down during the day And and I can access it from anywhere I can be out having lunch and realize oh, it's getting really hot I should turn that on for the dogs or something like that. It's amazing. Yeah, you look a lot cooler I'm gonna say thank you. I could just I could be even cooler I just turn it down right now Even though the thermostats upstairs. I Wish I can get one. I have Window unit type of you know apartment and it's like as much as I want to try it It's like there's no there's nothing out there yet that really works for that So yeah, you need a you need a full on thermostat to replace and we rent But I kept the old thermostat They actually provide a recycling service for your old thermostat, but I kept it and we when we move I'll just swap it back. I'll put the old thermostat back Send your picks to feedback at daily tech news show calm you can find my picks Amazon echoes another one of my picks daily tech New show comm slash picks We were talking yesterday about the Apple announcement. We were wondering if Siri Would have any new features if Siri would be the emphasis with the new iPhone and Marlin the guy from Trinidad put it out He's like don't forget We already know from the iOS 9 announcement that there will be Siri suggestions the proactive suggestions I mentioned a revamped search and the possibility that third-party developers could incorporate Siri's search into their apps similar to Google now. So yeah, I mean that will be there because that's part of iOS 9 thank you for the reminder Marlin and Yeah, I'm just wondering if they'll if they'll use that as their star quality Or if they'll add to that because they put a Siri on the cover of the the invitation So it's going to they're gonna be talking about something. We already heard something about Just doesn't that mean they're gonna add something to it. They wouldn't just say oh here all the same things from iOS 9 Yeah, I think so. I think the first thing I want to see is been able to use. Hey Siri without having it plugged in I mean, yeah, of course, they can get crazy in a crowd. Everybody's saying hey Waking up your phone, but yeah, there's got to be some more control on that as well And then Patrick Beja was listening and he sent us an mp3 or an m4a I think to be accurate With an idea for how Apple could rejuvenate the iPad Hey guys yesterday, you discussed the Apple announcement and Speculated about what they could announce for a potential new iPad and Jeff said that he didn't really see what they could add That could be interesting or compelling and I think that the obvious answer is stylists is Style lie well a stylus basically for the iPad and if you've ever used a Microsoft Surface Pro or well You know Microsoft Surface You'll know that the stylus when it's done. Well is actually a super useful tool Especially for getting worked on and given the fact that the iPad, you know, the new one might be a larger iPad Pro I'm thinking it would make sense and anyway. Yeah stylus could be really cool I think people are going to be surprised Also, Steve Jobs said that they would never do it. So obviously they're going to bye It's probably the best argument. I've heard for it right Yes, he just says no it will be done. Yeah, if you ever said we'll never do something it almost always ends up happening I don't know about a stylus built into an iPad. I don't want to see it. Yeah, it just goes against the whole the whole equals no one equal says wrong word just a whole Look and use of it supposed to be with your fingers I don't want to see a stylus on it ever as it feel like we're going back to the palm pile of days There you go folks Beja or Wilson you decide actually we'll find out on September 9th Jason from thank God the rain is about to return to Washington because the state's still on fire Seattle. That's a long name Jason writes it's important to note that the US FTC's enforcement authority is still limited to instances of unfair or deceptive trade practices this refers to the story we mentioned earlier this week that a court found that the FTC could govern a cyber security promise under their existing authority and Jason just wants to point out if your Privacy statement says in effect we encrypt all the things But you actually don't encrypt some or all of the things the FTC can find you the fine Isn't because you were cheap or stupid and thus failed to encrypt but because you told customers that you would but did not I think this is a good clarification what the FTC is after is Somebody said we would provide this level of encryption and didn't it's not somebody should have encrypted things and didn't right? Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, and then finally Tim writes in with I think An opinion on behalf of many of you He says you seem to enjoy Using the terms that you know full well trigger the voice activation feature of various devices. I Can't fully express how annoying this is and how much this hurts my listening experience Frequently your comments cause my particular podcasting app to freeze Since Siri does not release cleanly all the time or causes something else entirely also given Amazon Echo's possible integration to the smart home Your comments could cause actual harm because of the ability to activate devices in the home Such as locks heating systems or appliances Can I respectfully ask you to please stop flippantly activating the voice activated features of connected devices? Thank you for enduring my rant Tim. Oh, can I can I answer this one? Sure? No Because Amazon on TV has echo commercials and they say You know let's whatever the thing is, you know, I like to do this whatever in it sometimes it turns on Xbox does the same thing. Mm-hmm. Just have to live with it or put it away from your TV. Listen. Listen I I agree with you that this is not the burden is on the device makers to be able to figure out when it's hearing a Recorded voice and when it's not I think that's something that needs to be fixed on the other hand I feel Tim's pain and I will say yes, Tim. I will try not to flippantly Which I think I think I may have been guilty a couple of time of wanting to add chocolate chips to millions of people's shopping lists Millions maybe like 20 But I will stop that because you're right until they fix that it's not cool to do it on purpose but at the same time there are point there are Places where we need to say those phrases and we'll try to figure out how to do that without actually turning on your stuff Thank you, Tim For for your concern because yeah, you know what you don't want to turn somebody's locks off open Tim's garage Yeah, I mean it shouldn't it shouldn't work that way It should not if you should not Lamar should not be able to walk into Tim's house and open his garage with his voice That's that's insecure like but but Tim's point is well taken. That's all I'm saying. All right That is it for this episode of the show. Thank you Lamar Wilson twitter.com slash Lamar Wilson Go follow him go subscribe youtube.com slash Lamar Wilson subscribe subscribe subscribe and what's coming up to let people know about Oh, well Come up in a few days. I just got an email said it's been delayed, but if you're into those toy to life type of things that new Disney infinity are out and Disney sending them to me to try out and it's Star Wars theme That was gonna be my question. Yeah So I mean a Star Wars those will be out of my channel in a couple days. Be sure you take a look Yeah, I'm hoping to get my hands on a bit of a Star Wars toys sort of something at Dragon Con fingers crossed keep an eye on that and Len Peralta has been busily And I think dramatically trying to illustrate our VR discussion. Yeah, you know I think a lot of people are excited about a VR They wanted to know what the reality was of what it's all about and the image is yeah I mean it's pretty poignant. I you know, I actually have to ask Nori. I asked her I said, do you think this is a little bit too much? Oh, yeah And I just said, you know what? I'm gonna I'm gonna take a chance on it For those of you can't see it. It's a it's a little boy sitting with the VR helmet on and There's all this magic around him and then it just really says all I really just missed my mom and dad Now we can interpret it's a couple ways they're right they're away at work and he's been left alone Yes, and that's where they're or they're playing it Yes, and I just want to keep that nice stuff. Yeah, not that they want to go get milk Just to be just to reassure When when junior takes off the headset mom and dad will be in the house, right? Yes A farm upstate they're fine every time I'm on there is an issue with Lynn and these great pitchers You know this one I actually You know what I was I really kind of thought about this before I did it and I was like is it too dark? Is it too is it too sad? And I'm just you know, I the way I looked at it. I'm just another voice You know, I don't want to I don't want to parrot what you guys say because you're obviously very excited about VR Everybody's excited about VR. Let's want to do something a little bit different. So I It makes me reminded me that I was a latchkey kid growing up and this is like the VR version of the latchkey kid A little bit. Yeah, I mean, I left it open so you can interpret it So but I just want to definitely go to take a look at it It's good art Len Peralta store.com and if you feel you want it to grace your walls as well You can buy it too, right? You can yeah, you go to Len Peralta store.com It's right there on the front page It'll be there for the next week and they're pretty inexpensive or the other thing you can do is if you can You back me on patreon at the DTNS lover level You'll get each and every one of these images that I draw on Friday as a digital file Saves me on printing and it just gives you an option. 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I knew I got I knew it was a good one when I made a Jenny react to it So yeah, I just I just I just thought for every patreon dollar we can help this kid Give till he gets his parents back, you know, I really did I agonized over this thinking maybe I should just do one word It's like it's such a great world and everything else and and I just I decided not to do that So no, I mean you could have gone even more dramatic and had like a woman's face in amongst all of the magical stuff And then the little boy going mom, right? Yes. You know what I mean? I I even stop You got a line. You had a line you didn't cry. I didn't want it. I didn't want to get to two cents Is this heaven? No, it's oculus Like that he's sort of in the group space Like that the picture he has like the group like those Fireflies the group has. Oh, yeah It looks like very like a very safe space for him Well, he's being very interesting, you know, the just the black and him black and white in this incredible VR world around him You know, yeah, juxtapose that. Oh, so he's got this sad little hand on his chin From your mouth It was like on the chin like it'll all be okay, buddy. It's okay. It's all right. It's all right. Everything's okay So what are we gonna call this beast? Oh, would you like to have some titles? I have some Flash no We'll turn off every one of you. I love it. Are you VR experience? Nice classic rock day in the Chrome sensors flashing Let's see group VR experience VR set is for porn Cabs shooting at uber with arrow nice. No, I get arrow takes a shot at uber arrow takes it. That's better Yeah, this cabs shooting could just mean the Paris thing. Yeah. Yeah, let's see Huawei or the highway Ah Fixie me. I like that Let's see But what about the virtual children? Maybe the kid isn't even in the Maybe he is the virtual child. I didn't even thought about it from that side. Oh, he might be he might be yeah, yellow cab Interpretation I yeah, I think it's a brilliant art. That's open to interpretations yellow yellow cab invents the multi-pass It's Van Gogh like Len Then then Van Gogh unless somebody makes a horror game with this creepy kid And he's sitting there all of a sudden, you know his head turns around it says, you know Hi, daddy, and then and then that's it. I will never use VR again. I'm just letting you know And you probably shouldn't see that movie that's coming out called goodnight mommy. Have you seen that? The visit the visit the visit is the one I saw the previous of I yeah, I don't like creepy kid movies at all Yeah, good night mommy weird No, no, no, no. Oh, right. Well, I'm going to export and Shoes are you VR experienced? Are you VR experienced and you can have you never been experienced? Please feel free to listen to Len sing the song while you We call them Len Hendricks Peralta Lenny Lenny Hendricks Lenny Hendricks So that was awesome to Lenny Hendricks. I had an awesome time today actually Listening to the Patriot and pot like their monthly thing with Jack Conti And they've got such an interesting Set of things coming up which I thought was super cool So that was my exciting morning that I listened to Jack Conti talk about like really responsive product updates So that was me. I like that We'll see when they launch Jack Yeah About the iOS app that is that would be key Yeah, so they asked me if I want to debate a test the app and I said yes They're like great. Can you come to the launch party and I was like no I'm actually out of town on that day And they're like, oh too bad and then I never got to beta test the app I was like, wait, do I have to go to the party to test the app? That doesn't seem right But yeah, I'm looking forward to the app, too I just Matt bought a tickets to la pod fest to because Um, I think Matt would like it Yeah, I'm gonna Moderate the crowd. I know so I wanted to go see it. So I bought a ticket And the way I'm gonna moderate it is all right, patron's got the most money from me right now But what do you all what do the other guys got? Yeah Pitch me pitch me. It's not how I'm gonna do Uh I'm so hungry. I hope my food is ready. Oh, yeah speaking of which What's tonight lenn tonight is you know, well, here's the weird thing is that you know, we we've lost two children to college And uh college folks just college God not to not to vr And then uh, and then my my other son is going out with his friend So there's not too many people here tonight. So I think we have like a little bag of sweet and sour chicken. I'm gonna make that Be very good a bag of sweet and sour chicken Yeah, it comes with the sauce and it's good. Yeah, it's a frozen. Yeah. Yeah, I like rice rice cooker Right just cook her up some rice with that. Yeah, it's really good coming over. Yeah, please do All right, well, uh, I will see you in a couple days tom. Yeah, man. See you dragon con. I'm excited. It is never a dull moment Right on man. It's good to see you again always always a pleasure Take care Now what's this dragon con you all keep talking about it's a conference for dragons I said I thought okay. Yeah, it's just what it says on the No, it's a it's a sci-fi fantasy conference. It's been going on for decades Uh, and it's very cosplay oriented very fan oriented. So comic con It doesn't have that comic con industry feel to it. Although you will get some big big names speaking there So what are you wearing? start on the late 70s early 80s and yeah, I think so Um, is it here to be cool? But it's also kind of frustrating Atlanta the way it's organized It's not done across um at a single convention center. It's actually held across multiple hotel Um various suites or not suites, but ballrooms and stuff that they that they have So you actually have to to get to various things you go in and out of different hotels Um, but it's cool. It's definitely it definitely skews older In terms of kind of the the folks who go And you and you you're going this weekend. No, I I'm not he is oh next weekend. Okay. Yeah, so I leave on thursday And then we'll do the show from dragon con on friday. We always do certain laser. I have dragon con We'll do night attack. Justin rubber young is getting married at dragon con because that's where he and ashley met aw They're their wedding is a panel amazing um I Oh, no, go ahead. Oh, no, I'm still wondering how they got that You know okayed or because they're doing a podcast of their wedding planning. Oh, no, no not the not the panel I'll talk to you about their parents Like what? No, I think they just said this is what we're doing. You want to be there come Justin's mom is actually pretty pretty chill like he prank calls her from night attack sometimes and she just rolls with it So that part didn't surprise me. I don't I don't know ashley's parents But for anybody who didn't know they they're podcasting the the preparation in the final episode is their wedding And there's a podcasting track at dragon con So they got their final episode to be as part of the podcasting track at dragon con Just like dts or short and laser and that will be their wedding and there will be Cylons and aliens and all kinds of there used to be at least one dragon Oh, yeah, there's gonna be there's gonna be a freaking khalisi there as far as I know, okay Yeah, it's gonna be I mean, I think they want as many people to dress up as possible I'm like this started right after the show and it was darn banging. Oh, yeah, what is that? I thought that was just the construction is not over upstairs. I thought that was just you angry that you couldn't go to drag No, it's just like it just won't it won't in like what they move in already Oh, man, I was that was me when I first moved into this place. They were remodeling next door It seemed like it was never gonna end It's been trying on my sleep. So they start early Does anybody mind terribly if I leave and go get my food because I've turned into a space cadet of hunger Go eat Oh, that would be awesome Okay I'm gonna leave too because I you just remember I need to eat. I've only had no I'm the person at the party that caused all the people You're that person. I should have just irish goodbye dad of the hangout I say that is the wife of an irish man