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Speaker 1: Get in text with technology with tech Stuff from half

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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm a senior writer with

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Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com and today I'm flying by

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Speaker 1: the seat of my pants, which is, you know, not

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Speaker 1: nearly as efficient as flying on a seven fifty seven,

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Speaker 1: which I did recently, as I have returned from Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: the city of Angels where I attended the two thousand

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Speaker 1: seventeen E three conference formerly known as the Electronic Entertainment Expo,

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Speaker 1: and E three, for those who do not know, is

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Speaker 1: all about video games and computer games in all their forms,

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Speaker 1: whether they are console, PC based, handheld VR. All shapes

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Speaker 1: and sizes of games are represented there and typically A

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Speaker 1: three as a place where various game studios will get

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Speaker 1: together and show off games that are in development. Typically

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Speaker 1: they tend to be pretty close to going live, going

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Speaker 1: gold as they say, and giving industry industry folks and

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Speaker 1: and media people a quick early look so that they

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Speaker 1: can get an appreciation for it and then hype up

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Speaker 1: the games. It becomes a big marketing push for these companies.

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Speaker 1: UH this year was a little different, had a bit

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Speaker 1: of a change and that the organization that throws E

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Speaker 1: three decided that for the first time in many years,

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Speaker 1: it would open up the conference to the general public.

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Speaker 1: Now you had to purchase a ticket to go, but

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Speaker 1: for the first time in ages, the general public was

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Speaker 1: a lot of people were very eager to do because

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Speaker 1: it meant getting that head start on everybody else on

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Speaker 1: the coolest games and gear that we're right around the corner.

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Speaker 1: As a result, E three was crazy busy, y'all. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they had sixty eight thousand, four hundred attendees. So let

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Speaker 1: me describe what a typical E three is like, and

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Speaker 1: then try to describe what E three is like. A

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Speaker 1: typical E three is crazy, busy, super crowded, partly because

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Speaker 1: I think some of the people who are attending there

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Speaker 1: your imagination pretty far, like their job descriptions and their

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Speaker 1: job there were duties and responsibilities may only tangentially be

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Speaker 1: related to video games and computer games. So as one

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Speaker 1: from the media who is there to try and cover

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Speaker 1: you would have to wait, even as media for a

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Speaker 1: while to get one on one time with various game titles,

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Speaker 1: new pieces of equipment. If you wanted to talk to

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Speaker 1: a developer or someone in marketing, it might take a

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Speaker 1: little while because they're just a lot of people there.

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Speaker 1: Opening it up to the public meant that there were

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Speaker 1: even more people this year. And I don't want you

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Speaker 1: to think that this is just Jonathan complaining that there

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Speaker 1: were a bunch of commoners all around me as I

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Speaker 1: regally stride through the Los Angeles Convention Center. I don't

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Speaker 1: mean to say that at all. They had paid for

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Speaker 1: that privilege and they had every right to be there.

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Speaker 1: It did make my job more challenging, but at the

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Speaker 1: same time, I was glad that so many people got

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Speaker 1: People who are very avid gamers got that chance to

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Speaker 1: and to me, that is a valuable experience. So I

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Speaker 1: that they had every right to be there based upon

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Speaker 1: the rules. I don't know if the rules were necessarily

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Speaker 1: the most intelligent thing to do. If you it depends

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Speaker 1: on what the goal is for your conference. If the

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Speaker 1: But if your goal is to drum up excitement in

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Speaker 1: general for video games, it definitely did that. So while

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Speaker 1: too much. Also, there was way more programming at this

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Speaker 1: So in other words, the one X might be a

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Speaker 1: Or are we approaching peak console performance and therefore the

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Speaker 1: argue that the Assassin's Creed series is ultimately a variation

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Speaker 1: on this theme. But that's about all we know about Transference,

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Speaker 1: apart from the fact that it's supposed to come out

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Speaker 1: in the Spring of and it's supposed to be available

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Speaker 1: for all the major VR platforms. We also saw a

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Speaker 1: showing of Skull and Bones, one of the games about

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Speaker 1: pirates that I'm very excited about. Skull and Bones is

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Speaker 1: based off of the Assassin's Creed Black Flag ship combat,

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Speaker 1: so in some ways it looks like it's a little

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Speaker 1: limited because it's based off of leading crews of pirates

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Speaker 1: on a ship against other ships. So really you control

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Speaker 1: a ship you are able to you know, fire upon

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Speaker 1: enemies that kind of thing. But as far as I

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Speaker 1: can tell, that's the extent of the game. Like it's

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Speaker 1: it's tactics and arcade based. It doesn't have any other elements,

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Speaker 1: like as far as I can tell, you can't board

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Speaker 1: another ship and have sword fighting in it, for example,

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00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: at least not the stuff I saw. But it did

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Speaker 1: look kind of neat um. It looks like I'll have

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Speaker 1: a competitive element where you can have leader boards about

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Speaker 1: who are the Gray as Pirates on the Seven Seas,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure that will become a very competitive space.

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Speaker 1: But that one also caught my attention, and one that

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Speaker 1: I forgot to mention. Another game that uh, I think

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Speaker 1: looks really dark and compelling is Far Cry five. The

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Speaker 1: Far Cry series tends to be very excessive and over

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Speaker 1: the top, but this most recent one is going to

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Speaker 1: be set in a rural part of Montana, and apparently

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Speaker 1: the enemies you go up against are a militant group

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Speaker 1: of separatists who have their own essential arsenal and are

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Speaker 1: in control of this area of Montana. And there are

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Speaker 1: several people who do not like that. They can't they're

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Speaker 1: they're essentially being repressed, and your job is to resist

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Speaker 1: against this group. It looks pretty dark, and I'm very

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Speaker 1: curious to hear how reviews portray it, because playing a

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Speaker 1: game that dark and politically charged, I think it has

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Speaker 1: some potential hurdles to overcome. That being said, the Far

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Speaker 1: Grave games are pretty well designed. I enjoyed them. I

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Speaker 1: like big sandbox games. Um it would be soft surprised

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Speaker 1: everybody with a sequel to a game that originally came

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Speaker 1: out in two thousand three, so it was a long

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Speaker 1: time coming to get a sequel fourteen years the original

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Speaker 1: game being Beyond Good and Evil. So now we have

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Speaker 1: Beyond Good and Evil too, And we saw a little

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Speaker 1: c g I trailer of this, and it is almost

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Speaker 1: impossible for me to explain what Beyond Good and Evil

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Speaker 1: is all about. So I recommend if you have not

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Speaker 1: seen the trailer to go check it out. See if

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Speaker 1: you can track down the trailer to be Beyond Good

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Speaker 1: and Evil too, so that you can get a bit

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Speaker 1: of a feel for what that was all about. Bethesda

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Speaker 1: would be another big name that was there. Bethesda, of course,

484
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Speaker 1: is the game company that is behind stuff like the

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Speaker 1: Elder Scrolls series, the Fallout series, both of which are

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Speaker 1: uh my favorites. I love both the Elder Scrolls and

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Speaker 1: the Fallout series. They're some of my favorite games of

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Speaker 1: all time. The we did not see a new Fallout game,

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Speaker 1: nor did we really see a new Elder Scrolls game.

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Speaker 1: They are bringing uh the Skyrim chapter of Elder Scrolls

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Speaker 1: to the Nintendo Switch, which I normally wouldn't even comment

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Speaker 1: on except for the fact that it does have within

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Speaker 1: the game the ability for you to find an outfit

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Speaker 1: that is essentially Link from the Legend of Zelda series.

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Speaker 1: It's not quite enough to convince me to go out

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Speaker 1: and buy a Nintendo Switch just so I could play

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Speaker 1: Skyrim for like the fourth time and dress up as Link,

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Speaker 1: but it's darn close. They also showed off a uh uh,

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Speaker 1: like I said, the Fallout four Virtual Reality Experience, which

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Speaker 1: looks amazing. I would love to play a Skyrim version

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Speaker 1: of of VR, but I guess I'll have to wait

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Speaker 1: for that. We saw Wolfenstein Too. That was one of

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Speaker 1: the most popular games on the show floor. The line

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Speaker 1: for Wolfenstein Too was more than three hours long. While

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Speaker 1: I was walking around, I did not get in line

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Speaker 1: for it. I had to do a lot of other things,

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Speaker 1: but I got to see it, uh, and I hope

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Speaker 1: that all the people who were in line had a

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Speaker 1: chance at playing it, because that's a long time to

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Speaker 1: wait for anything. They also announced that the area of

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Speaker 1: their their Elder Scrolls universe, marrow Wind, would be coming

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Speaker 1: to Elder Scrolls Online, and they showed off an expansion

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Speaker 1: that allows multiplayer combat where it's team based and it

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Speaker 1: would be teams of four, so you could have three

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Speaker 1: teams of four, four versus four versus four playing in

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Speaker 1: object oriented game types on the Elder Scrolls platform. And

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Speaker 1: so I got to try it, and that was one

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Speaker 1: of the few games I had a hand held experience with,

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Speaker 1: like I actually got to sit down and play hands

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Speaker 1: on experience, I should say, uh. And it was fun,

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Speaker 1: mostly because my team won because it was captured the

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Speaker 1: flag and the other teams all thought of it as deathmatch,

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Speaker 1: so they just ran to the middle of the map

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Speaker 1: and started shooting everybody whereas I ran around the edge

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Speaker 1: of the map, picked up flags and brought them back

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Speaker 1: to my base. So it turns out that I am

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Speaker 1: elite Elder Scrolls Online player as long as no one

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Speaker 1: is paying attention to what the actual objective is of

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Speaker 1: the game. Once they pay attention to the objective. I

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Speaker 1: am no longer a contender, but for a brief while

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Speaker 1: I was on top and it was glorious. Another company

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Speaker 1: that had big event, in fact they had the earliest

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Speaker 1: one was e A, where we got to see stuff

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Speaker 1: like battle Grounds one DLC, which would put you in

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Speaker 1: the Russian theater for battlegrounds, and that's kind of neat

536
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: new maps and new weapons for battlegrounds if you are

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Speaker 1: into that massive multiplayer competitive approach. Uh. They showed off

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Speaker 1: some sporting titles, which is par for the course for

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00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: e A, and I used part for the course correctly. There.

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00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: It's a sporting term, y'all. Including a story mode for Madden.

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Speaker 1: So if you were just always wanted to pick up

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Speaker 1: a copy of Madden but you felt like there wasn't

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Speaker 1: a strong enough single player campaign, I guess that's the

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Speaker 1: solution for you. Uh. It's not really my thing, so

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00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 1: I guess I shouldn't get too snarky. They also showed

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Speaker 1: off Anthem. They showed off the fact that you'll be

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Speaker 1: able to play as characters from all three of the

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Speaker 1: trilogies of Star Wars in Battle Front to the first

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Speaker 1: battle Front focused on the original trilogy episodes four through

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Speaker 1: six for those keeping count, but the Battlefront two game

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00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: will allow you to play as units and characters from

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Speaker 1: all three of the series. So if you were just

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Speaker 1: dying to control a battle droid for the prequels, first

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00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: of all, I don't even know you anymore, But second

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Speaker 1: of all, you'll be able to do it in Battlegrounds

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Speaker 1: two or battle Front two, I should say, not Battlegrounds.

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Speaker 1: That's the other thing about these games, y'all is that

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00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: the names started getting real confusing, especially if you are

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Speaker 1: sleep deprived and on East Coast time but trying to

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Speaker 1: deal with West coast schedules. I found that to be

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Speaker 1: rather challenging. Uh So those were like the big press events.

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Speaker 1: Nintendo had a pre recorded event that was not officially

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Speaker 1: part of the three. They've they've kind of pulled away

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Speaker 1: from E three for the last couple of years, but

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Speaker 1: they did announce some stuff like Rocket League is coming

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Speaker 1: to Switch. Rocket League is a fun car game where

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Speaker 1: you're essentially playing soccer but with the rocket cars. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna come to the Nintendo Switch and it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a cross platform game. Just like Minecraft. These

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Speaker 1: are cross platform games that will allow people on different

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Speaker 1: platforms to play with each other. So if You're on

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Speaker 1: a Nintendo Switch and I'm on my Xbox, we can

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Speaker 1: each play Rocket League against each other even though we're

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Speaker 1: using different platforms. Same thing with Minecraft. The only group

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Speaker 1: to stay out of this is Sony. Sony did not

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Speaker 1: agree to do cross platform gaming, and there the reason

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Speaker 1: that they gave was that they didn't want to subject

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Speaker 1: their players to harmful gaming experiences, essentially saying that the

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Speaker 1: people playing Minecraft are young and they didn't want them

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Speaker 1: running into all the ne'er do wells who are on

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Speaker 1: Xbox Live. But if Nintendo is cool with it, and

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00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: Nintendo is super protective of their users, I am very

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Speaker 1: curious if that's actually PlayStation's strategy or if it is

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Speaker 1: as I suspect a different reason for not getting into

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Speaker 1: cross platform, which would be Sony wants to lock people

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Speaker 1: into their platform and their experiences because one of the

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Speaker 1: most valuable tools you have selling any sort of console

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Speaker 1: is what do your friends have. If all of your

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Speaker 1: friends have the PS four, then you're more likely to

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Speaker 1: buy a PS four because you want to be able

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Speaker 1: to play with your friends. So that's what you need.

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Speaker 1: If everything's cross platform, you could buy whatever console you want,

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Speaker 1: and if you don't want a PS four, you could

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Speaker 1: go out and get an Xbox One or a Nintendo

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Speaker 1: Switch or a PC and you can still play because

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00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: the games you're playing across platform. Sony not playing ball

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Speaker 1: with that tells me that maybe they want to try

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Speaker 1: and hold onto exclusivity and keep their ecosystem closed so

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Speaker 1: that they can maintain a market advantage that way. That

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Speaker 1: only works for so long, because eventually gamers will say,

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Speaker 1: I want to be able to play with my friends

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Speaker 1: no matter what they're on, and there's a chance that

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Speaker 1: Sony could lose uh some market share because of that.

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Speaker 1: One way to combat that is to come out with

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Speaker 1: really good exclusive games, and Sony is really good at that.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the exclusive titles for PlayStation are very

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Speaker 1: compelling games that you cannot get anywhere else. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what exclusive means, and that helps Sony maintain its

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Speaker 1: position in the market, even if these other decisions are

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Speaker 1: more questionable. Getting back to Nintendo, they announced some more

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Speaker 1: of the titles you would expect, stuff like Kirby and

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Speaker 1: Pokemon and Metroid and a Yoshi game. Uh. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff that you would you would totally anticipate

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Speaker 1: from Nintendo, including some stuff that I didn't necessarily anticipate,

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Speaker 1: like downloadable content packs for Legend of Zelda Breath of

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Speaker 1: the Wild. Uh. I'm not familiar with Nintendo releasing that

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Speaker 1: many DLC packs. That's something I I'm used to for computers,

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Speaker 1: for Xbox and for Sony, So to see Nintendo get

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Speaker 1: into this game is interesting. I don't know how long

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Speaker 1: they've been doing that. Um, I have not been keeping

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Speaker 1: track of them as much as I should have. But

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Speaker 1: these DLC content packs are going to be part of

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Speaker 1: the nineteen dollars and nine nine cent Expansion Pass, so

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00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: you get the Master Trials on June and the Champions

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00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: Ballad uh and then that will be Champions Ballot will

626
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: be sometime around the holiday season. And they showed some ambo's,

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00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: so if you're someone who collects ambos, you can totally

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00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: get your amibos. I'm not an Amibo person. I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't have a lot. I don't have an active

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Speaker 1: Nintendo system right now. The last one I had was

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Speaker 1: the original WE and I haven't had it hooked up

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Speaker 1: to my television for a very long time. So it

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00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: was an interesting, uh presentation, but it didn't have a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of applicability to me. Now I've got more

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Speaker 1: to say about my specific experiences at E three, but

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Speaker 1: before I jump into that, let's take another quick break

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Speaker 1: to thank our sponsor. Alright, So, like I said, I

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Speaker 1: didn't really get a chance to get a lot of

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Speaker 1: hands on time with the various video games while I

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Speaker 1: was there. So what did I do? I mean, I

641
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: was out there for several days, right, I focused a

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00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: lot on hardware. So one of the things I wanted

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Speaker 1: to do was meet up with people to potentially talk

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Speaker 1: about developments in hardware and maybe even line up some

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00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: chances for future episodes of tech Stuff where we'd have

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Speaker 1: a deeper dive on things. One of the first companies

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Speaker 1: I went to was alien Ware, which is a division

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Speaker 1: of Dell Computers that was acquired by Dell UH more

649
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Speaker 1: than a decade ago, and last year alien Ware celebrated

650
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Speaker 1: its twentieth anniversary. The company has been around, obviously for

651
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Speaker 1: twenty years, building gaming rigs for people that have a

652
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Speaker 1: certain aesthetic, and that aesthetic is flashy and showy, and

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Speaker 1: they also have some pretty beefy gaming rigs. Arguably, you

654
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Speaker 1: could build a machine just as capable or faster than

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Speaker 1: an alien Ware machine, but you're not going to get

656
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Speaker 1: that same aesthetic, and you're not you know, you're gonna

657
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Speaker 1: have to do a lot of that work yourself. So

658
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Speaker 1: if you have the money and the desire and you

659
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Speaker 1: find the alien Ware aesthetic pleasing, it's an interesting approach

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Speaker 1: and I like the alien Ware designs. So I went

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Speaker 1: there to talk with some of the executives over at

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Speaker 1: alien Ware, and we just kind of had a discussion

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Speaker 1: about where the company has come from, where it's going.

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Speaker 1: And my hope is that in the near future will'll

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Speaker 1: be able to have an interview and do a a

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Speaker 1: history or story of alien Ware episode. Uh. The big

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Speaker 1: machine they were showing off was the alien Ware Area

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00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: fifty one, which was a monster. It is a triangular

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Speaker 1: based case with a huge computer inside of it, and

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Speaker 1: it was triangular partly to allow for better airflow for

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Speaker 1: the cooling purposes of the machine, because obviously with real

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Speaker 1: powerful gaming rigs you've got advanced GPUs and a blistering

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Speaker 1: fast CPU in there. All of those things generate heat,

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Speaker 1: and the more heat they generate, the more, it can

675
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Speaker 1: negatively impact the various components inside the computer, so you

676
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Speaker 1: have to have a very effective heat management system. And

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Speaker 1: part of it was just the design of this case,

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Speaker 1: which also just made it a little like nothing else.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a big triangle. Uh. Alien Ware in

680
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Speaker 1: general was pretty cool. They also came out with some

681
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Speaker 1: gaming keyboards, some gaming mice, some displays, so this was

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Speaker 1: the first time they had come out with some peripherals

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Speaker 1: in quite a few years. Uh. And the peripherals were

684
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Speaker 1: kind of neat too. So I had a good time

685
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Speaker 1: over at their booth, and I'm hoping I can do

686
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Speaker 1: an episode specifically about alien Ware in the not too

687
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Speaker 1: distant future. I also got a chance to check out

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Speaker 1: some interesting work in motion capture or mo cap. Typically,

689
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Speaker 1: if you're doing mo cap, the way it has normally

690
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Speaker 1: been done is you go into a big sound studio

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Speaker 1: and you outfit a person wearing a costume that has

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Speaker 1: a bunch of points of reference on the costume itself.

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Speaker 1: So if you've ever looked at behind the scenes footage

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Speaker 1: of stuff like Lord of the Rings or Planet of

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Speaker 1: the Apes, you've probably seen this where actors are wearing

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Speaker 1: these suits with lots of different uh dots usually or

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Speaker 1: little balls on them to act as points of reference

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Speaker 1: for the camera. The camera records the actor's movements and

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Speaker 1: that information gets sent to a computer that analyze rises

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Speaker 1: the movement of all those individual points of reference and

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Speaker 1: then translates that into an animation that you can apply

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Speaker 1: to a different kind of character. So, for example, with

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Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings, Gollum, who was portrayed by Andy Serkis,

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Speaker 1: would was a computer generated character that was animated based

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Speaker 1: upon the actual movements of Andy Circus as he moved

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Speaker 1: around inside this motion capture suit. Well, the motion capture

707
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Speaker 1: suit I got to see at E three doesn't use

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Speaker 1: cameras at all. It's not an optical based system. Instead,

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Speaker 1: it uses magnets and magnetic fields, and it measures the

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Speaker 1: fluctuations of magnetic fields to track movement and thus be

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Speaker 1: able to capture movement. And one of the biggest challenges

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Speaker 1: that these sort of systems have is that while they

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Speaker 1: are cheaper and more accessible than optical based systems, you

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Speaker 1: don't need an enormous studio in order to capture that

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Speaker 1: information shan because they're magnetic and magnetic fields can interfere

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Speaker 1: with one another. You could get errors in your data collection,

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Speaker 1: so you get stuff like drift. Drift is when, as

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Speaker 1: you are holding a position, your magnets start to assume

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Speaker 1: that other magnetic fields are actually the Earth's magnetic field.

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Speaker 1: It would be like having a compass. If a compass

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Speaker 1: is sitting by itself and there's no magnetic field that's

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Speaker 1: interfering with it, the needle is going to point to

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Speaker 1: magnetic north. That's the purpose of a compass. But if

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Speaker 1: you bring an actual magnet close to the compass, as

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00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: it gets closer, that magnetic field is strong enough to

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Speaker 1: deflect the needle so that it's pointing towards your magnet,

727
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: not towards magnetic north, and it quote unquote assumes that

728
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Speaker 1: the magnet you're holding is magnetic north. The same thing

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Speaker 1: is true of magnetic motion capture. That these different components

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Speaker 1: on the suit itself, plus things that are in your

731
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: environments such as metal girders or a steel ladder, can

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Speaker 1: affect what they consider to be their orientation, so the

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Speaker 1: animation could come out looking really weird. A person's pelvis

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Speaker 1: might be facing front and back instead of left and right,

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Speaker 1: for example. Because of this drift well, the company had

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Speaker 1: talked to had developed software that helps correct for those problems,

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Speaker 1: so that while the technology itself still works the same,

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Speaker 1: on the software side, it can be reinterpreted so that

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Speaker 1: you don't get those errors. I'm hoping that I can

740
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Speaker 1: talk with them for a future episode as well to

741
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Speaker 1: really talk about the design and challenges of magnetic motion capture,

742
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Speaker 1: because it's a really cool technology and I want you

743
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: guys to learn more about it. I also saw a

744
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Speaker 1: lot of fabric computer interfaces, things like gloves that you

745
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: could put on and through just your control you could

746
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: have interactions with various types of software. This is not

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Speaker 1: that different from again, optical based systems, where you have,

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Speaker 1: say an infrared camera pointing at yourself. You wave in

749
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Speaker 1: front of the infrared camera and it's able to interpret

750
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Speaker 1: your motions and put that as commands within a video game.

751
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Speaker 1: But in this case, you're talking about using actual fabric

752
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Speaker 1: that has sensors woven into it that we'll pick up

753
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: all that information all on its own. The advantage to

754
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: that is that you don't have to worry about a

755
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: camera facing in on your gaming area all the time.

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Speaker 1: There are certain concerns about privacy when it comes to

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Speaker 1: these optical based systems and how much information is actually

758
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Speaker 1: being transmitted and who can see it. If you're using

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Speaker 1: something that's using an actual physical piece of fabric as

760
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Speaker 1: opposed to a camera, then whenever it's not in use,

761
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Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about it sending data somewhere

762
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Speaker 1: that you don't know about. You don't have to worry

763
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Speaker 1: about being in a intrusion on your privacy. So it's

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Speaker 1: a just your command system. And you might argue, we've

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Speaker 1: already got solution for that, but it's a different approach

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Speaker 1: to that solution, and I found that really interesting. I

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Speaker 1: also had a chance to talk with one of the

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Speaker 1: organizers of Child's Play, which is a charitable effort from

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Speaker 1: the Penny Arcade expo folks that tries to raise money

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Speaker 1: to provide games and game systems to hospitals to help

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Speaker 1: kids who are in for therapeutic treatment, who are you know,

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Speaker 1: have been hospitalized. And the research has gone beyond just

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Speaker 1: let's raise money to throw an Xbox or p S

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Speaker 1: four or something at these hospitals. It has reached a

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Speaker 1: point where they're actually looking at therapeutic games, games that

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Speaker 1: have been shown to help lower a child's anxiety levels,

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Speaker 1: so that the child doesn't experience pain as much or

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Speaker 1: surgical procedure. I found that fascinating, So I hope to

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Speaker 1: have a future episode with the organizers of Child's Play

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Speaker 1: to really talk about the evolution of that program and

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Speaker 1: how people can get involved if they're interested. So I

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Speaker 1: had a lot of opportunities to explore technology and meet

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Speaker 1: with really interesting people, and to explore elements around gaming

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Speaker 1: that were not directly tied to a specific video game title,

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Speaker 1: and that to me was invaluable. It was a really

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Speaker 1: interesting experience, and I have to say that the people

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Speaker 1: at E three are probably my favorite part of any

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Speaker 1: of those conferences. It's the chance to have a conversation

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Speaker 1: with really smart people who are dedicating their intelligence in

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Speaker 1: innovative and interesting ways that apps you never would have anticipated.

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Speaker 1: That was my favorite part of the three. But that

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Speaker 1: might be because I never got to play a pirate game. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: That's the Jonathan Strickland E three two thousand seventeen experience.

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Speaker 1: If you are interested in learning more about what happened

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Speaker 1: in the three, well, they're about a billion different websites

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Speaker 1: out there that have covered it. Extensively. Some of them

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Speaker 1: include things like The Verge or Polygon, which is really

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Speaker 1: and hours and hours of footage of developer interviews, hands

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