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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello everybody,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Poelette,

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Speaker 1: Sitting across from me as usual as senior writer Jonathan Strickland.

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Speaker 1: He there. All right then, and today we're gonna start

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Speaker 1: off the way we've started off several podcasts recently, with

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Speaker 1: a little listener mail. Yeah, and this listener mail comes

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Speaker 1: from Crystal. Crystal says augmented reality. What in the world

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Speaker 1: is it? Thank you, Crystal for that very concise listener mail.

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Speaker 1: She probably figured you'd make up another paragrapher said, uh yeah, considering.

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Speaker 1: So we've received some some novellas recently. There they've been excellent, guys,

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Speaker 1: We love them. Don't don't that as a dig, because

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Speaker 1: I think that's awesome that you guys take so much

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Speaker 1: effort to write as listener mail. And Crystal, that's awesome

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Speaker 1: that you were able to sum it up in one

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Speaker 1: you're all awesome. So anyway, augmented realitmented reality one the

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Speaker 1: world is it? You know what? I didn't really know either, Um,

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Speaker 1: I knew, I knew just the barest minimum of what

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Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, we can give you like the the

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Speaker 1: the bird's eye definition of augmented reality. The real idea

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Speaker 1: in real time. Yes, we're not talking about virtual reality,

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Speaker 1: in which you replace the real reality with a institute

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Speaker 1: augmented reality and virtual reality do have a lot of overlap.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of technology that um, that belongs in

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Speaker 1: both realms, uh, including things like head mald displays often

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Speaker 1: are used in both augmented reality and virtual reality applications. Yes,

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Speaker 1: except in in virtual reality, Um, the glasses that you

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Speaker 1: virtual world. And in augmented reality, you do see the

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Speaker 1: virtual world with other information layered on top of it.

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Speaker 1: of it, it would be augmented virtual reality. Can we

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Speaker 1: invent that patent pending? All right, no one else out

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Speaker 1: there grab it? That's us. Yes, So augmented reality. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, ideally, what you would have is some sort

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Speaker 1: mean that's just a very basic application. There are unlimited

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Speaker 1: applications for augmented reality. Sure, I mean, you know it's

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Speaker 1: not you could you could use it for something like that.

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Speaker 1: an hour, my hands feel like they're gonna fall off.

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Speaker 1: They're just it's just too small. I like the Xbox controller,

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Speaker 1: and I like that. I like the second generation original

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Speaker 1: Xbox controller. Are you following me? The Xbox controller that

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Speaker 1: a little too big even for me. But the one

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Speaker 1: that came up it was enormous. The one that came

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Speaker 1: out after that, I loved. It was the perfect size

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Speaker 1: for my hands. Uh. Now, you're not picky or anything,

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Speaker 1: are you. I'm a little but so she so. She

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Speaker 1: also mentioned that first person shooter should always be played

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Speaker 1: you're using a mouse and a keyboard, most of the time,

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Speaker 1: you're using the mouse with your right hand and you're

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Speaker 1: using that to aim your your weapon, and you're using

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Speaker 1: your left hand to move your character around, to strafe,

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Speaker 1: to move forward, backwards, jump, all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm left handed. I have never been able to use

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Speaker 1: a left handed mouse because I've just always had computers

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Speaker 1: using right handed mouse. Um, which means I can't aim

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Speaker 1: very well. I can't. I don't have that precision with

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Speaker 1: my right hand. So it's why we don't call you

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Speaker 1: dead eye right. Yeah, I'm I'm not the person to

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Speaker 1: hand a sniper rifle too in a game on a computer. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The controller helps a lot when I'm playing on a

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Speaker 1: bit of an auto aim feature, so it helps you

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Speaker 1: when you're turning your weapon around and you're trying to

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Speaker 1: fire on someone. Now, purists think that's terrible because they'd

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Speaker 1: rather rely on their skill than on some sort of

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Speaker 1: auto aim feature. People like me, who are at a

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Speaker 1: the auto aim feature because otherwise we would just spend

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Speaker 1: the entire game getting shot in the head. And you're

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Speaker 1: not the first person shooter player. That's why I didn't

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Speaker 1: ask your opinion. So specialized controllers too, those are really cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've got one of those. I've got the first person shooter.

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Speaker 1: That would be an advantage of having the computer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I actually have a first person shooter controller that um

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Speaker 1: that I was really really good at. But I haven't

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Speaker 1: relearn how to use it because it's been ages. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was that helped even out the playing field just

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Speaker 1: a little for me. Well, thank you so much London

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