WEBVTT - TechStuff Visits CES 2014 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.640 Get in touch with technology with text stuff from stuff 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.640 in there everyone, and welcome to text stuff. I'm Jonathan 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:20.440 Strickland and I'm Lauren and I'm tired. Why are you tired, Jonathan? 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:25.960 Because I just got back from last wages. I went 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.760 the c e S two thousand fourteen in Las Vegas, Nevada. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:33.160 C e S, of course, formerly known as the Consumer 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.400 Electronics Show, now known only as c e S, the 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.760 biggest trade show on the face of the planet, possibly 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:45.640 in the Milky Way. It's where lots of different electronics 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.840 companies come together to show off the stuff what they 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.360 have and some of the stuff what they do not 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.360 have yet but think it might be pretty cool perhaps 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.560 in the future. Yeah. So one thing I want to 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.920 say right at the very top of this show is 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:00.560 that some of the stuff you see it's c S. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.240 I know a lot of our listeners probably have never 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.120 been to a ce S. You probably because it's a 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.920 professional organization. Yep, it's it's it's industry to be either 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.080 media or a buyer for a company or etcetera, or 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.840 an exhibitor of some sort. Industry associate is what some 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.480 of them are called, UM, which I think is the 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.400 most vaguely defined of all the different groups. But anyway, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.960 it's a place where they'll show off stuff, not just 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.240 the stuff that's coming out. They'll show off stuff that 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:29.880 has already been out but maybe hasn't hit widespread notice yet. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.600 Or maybe it's stuff that you've heard about for a 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.279 few months but you haven't had a chance to actually 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.039 see or get your hands on it. So some of 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.120 the things that I actually have in my list of 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.200 stuff that I saw and personally experienced while it's c 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.959 e S. If you've been paying really close attention to 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.000 the tech news, you'll be like, well, I am pretty 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.280 sure I heard about that in the spring of Why 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.080 are you talking about now? Well, I'm talking about now 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.880 because now is when I finally got my grip a 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.120 little hands on it. So now, when I went to 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.320 ce S, I was specifically going in my capacity as 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.800 host of another show called Forward Thinking. Right, So if 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.760 you guys have not checked out Forward Thinking, you should 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.480 go do that. We also have an audio podcast, and uh, 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.200 not only am I on that audio podcast, but Lauren 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.560 you're on that audio podcast too. That is extremely correct. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.920 Also joining us on that podcast is Mr Joe McCormick, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.160 who is a writer for the video series. Yes, he's 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:23.919 one of the In fact, I would call him the 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.840 head writer. Yes, And so I went there kind of 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.320 looking at technologies that I thought were sort of in 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.799 that vein bringing the future into the present, which meant 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.160 that I didn't spend as much time looking at a 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.320 lot of the technologies that really dominate some of the 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.639 main floors at c S well, although also I would 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.519 argue that some of the main technologies that dominate the 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.520 floors of CEES are things that we have seen so 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.840 frequently and just add infinitem that it gets to a 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.919 point where it's like, I don't care about your four 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.120 K television or your new smartphone or your new tablet. 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:03.120 If it doesn't if it doesn't do something different, why 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:04.760 why am I looking at? And even the break dancing 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:06.800 stuff is getting a little old, folks, let me tell you, 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.639 um no, but you know you're totally right right, Like 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.000 you'll hear that after every CES about a I think 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.360 the day after c e S is over, you hear 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.880 all the journalists lamenting like where was all the cool 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.840 stuff now? Not that four K televisions aren't cool, they 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.520 are gorgeous, but you know when Here's the other thing 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.240 is that you know, you go to five or six 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:32.519 enormous booths. These boots are dominated by these four K 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.680 televisions that are everywhere and every kind of shape and 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.840 size that you can imagine. Some of them are even flexible. 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.640 We'll talk about one of those. Um they are, uh, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.720 they're really cool when you see them, but after you 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.960 see a few of them, it feels like you're just 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.560 seeing the same thing repeatedly, and it doesn't really matter 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.200 which uh manufacturer you start with. And this isn't to 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.360 say that all four K televisions are equal, but just 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.440 that after you've seen a few, it feels like you're 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.760 seeing the same thing as place after place. So let 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.360 me let me explain to you guys before we go 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.920 into some of the specifics of the technology that I saw, 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.720 what it is kind of like to go to a 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.440 c E S. It sounds like like a calming spa 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.760 that you go to to sort of collect yourself. And well, 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:20.000 let me let me shatter the illusions you have, Lauren. 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.360 First of all, so the main hallways at CEES are 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.960 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, which has three point 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.040 one million square feet of exhibition space. So lots of space. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.680 Right that, that area is divided into three main halls. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.680 You have the South Hall, which actually has two floors, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.320 both of which are huge. You have the Central Hall 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.000 that happens to be where all the really big name 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.760 manufacturers like Sony, Panasonic, LG, Samsung, those are all in 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.000 the Central Hall, I think. You have the North Hall, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.520 which is mostly automotive tech and then some other stuff. 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.640 But beyond that you also have space at the l 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.119 v h which is now called the Las Vegas Hotel, 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.799 used to be the last Vegas Hilton, so they've got 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.200 a bunch of booths there. A lot of them are 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.240 international booths, but they have other stuff there as well. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.960 Then you have the Venetian and the Sands Expo Center. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.120 At the Venetian itself, within the towers, you have a 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:19.120 lot of the audio uh manufacturers, because it turns out 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.719 that showing your super high fidelity audio system in the 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.760 middle of a noisy convention hall doesn't necessarily give a 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.159 person a real sense of what it's capable of doing, 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.120 so there are a lot of them that will have 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.120 a suite at the Venetian. Then you have the Sands 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.919 Expo Center, which is another convention center that has uh 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.280 it had the let's see that one had the Eureka 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.680 Park area. Wearable tech was there or they actually call 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.520 it fashion tech, which that was fun, had fun there, 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.920 and then robotics. There was some robotics stuff there as well. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.400 So anyway, it's it's so what you're saying is that 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.200 this is spread out throughout basically the entirety of Las Vegas, 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.479 at least the Strip. Well yeah, yeah, there's other parts 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.320 of Las Vegas than the Strip, I'm aware, um, but yeah, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.320 but the Strip itself is dominated and if you even 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.320 if you are talking about all the different exhibition space. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.720 After hours, there are lots of meetings and parties. I 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.560 didn't go to. I went to one meet up slash 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.560 party thing. It was the Discovery Digital Slash Revision three 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.280 meet up because I'm part of that, so I went 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.680 to that, but I didn't really go to any of 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.080 the other parties this time. I did go to some 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.760 of the press events, but those were really to give 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.520 you an opportunity to see some of the smaller companies 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.880 that otherwise you might overlook because you're, you know, waiting 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.320 between two booths that are the size of your house. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.159 You might miss the one that's the size of a cubicle. Sure, 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:44.719 And and just to give you an idea of the 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:46.920 scope of the number of people that go every year. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.839 UM total attendance last year was a hundred and fifty 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.640 two thousand, seven hundred and fifty nine people. Yeah, I 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.320 would I would suspect that for two thousand fourteen was 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.800 probably about the same. Those are the jections that I've seen. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.080 I've seen projections around. Yeah, it doesn't. It didn't feel 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.600 like it was more crowded to me, So I felt 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.039 like and most it was probably, you know, around the 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.400 same number. So let's talk about some of the stuff 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.480 I actually saw and some of the stuff I didn't 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.920 see but happened at CES. Because here's the thing. As 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.640 one person, it is impossible to see everything. You're just 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.440 not going to and and next year I'm hoping to 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.560 be able to to go and help him out with that. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.480 That was sweet. If one of us could cover, like 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.440 even if we're talking about still covering major sections, like 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.400 one of us takes of the Nation and the other 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.840 one takes the Las Vegas Convention Center, that's still means 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.760 seeing a lot more than we would otherwise because you know, 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.160 having one person to do all of it is really difficult. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.280 So let's start with the four K televisions. So four 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.000 K that's essentially talking about you know, ultra high definition, right, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:52.920 so it's not exactly four times the resolution of a 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:58.040 ten A d P television, but essentially like the biggest 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.559 issue with four K TVs right now, I mean, apart 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.880 from the fact that they're still fairly expensive. Although I 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:09.240 think Visios announced a thousand dollar one. I think it's 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.560 k TV, do not have the size information on it, 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.960 but um, but being that they are the most popular 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.440 TV manufacturer in the United States, this announcement supposedly has 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.840 a bunch of other companies kind of scared. Yeah, because 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.240 I mean, it wasn't that long ago that four k's 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.760 were just prototypes and they were saying, when it comes 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.720 to market, it's gonna be a ten thousand, twelve thousand 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.840 dollar television. Right Uh. Now, we're starting to see them 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.559 get down in the one thousand to two thousand, five 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:37.840 hundred dollar range for some of the quote unquote bargain brands, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.120 and then the more premium brands are probably closer to 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.959 five thousand dollars, So still expensive, but at a thousand dollars. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.520 You're talking, you know, about something that is within the 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.600 reach of a much larger potential audience. But here's the 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.960 caveat I would give all of you. Getting content for 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.160 your four K television right now is a bit of 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.760 a challenge. It is. Although Netflix had a really interesting 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.880 announcement about that the show Did you hear about this? 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.200 I did? I did? Netflix talked about streaming in four K? Yeah? Yeah, 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.559 they They said that House of Cards Season two will 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.800 definitely be streaming in four K, and that every original 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.080 Netflix series from here on out is going to be 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.320 shot in four K UM. Furthermore, that Breaking Bad is 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.120 going to be remastered and released for streaming in four 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.240 K and UM. Basically after that, all of these smart 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.480 TV companies on the show floor announced that they will 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.360 be supporting a four K Netflix app in the future. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.720 And also we should point out that that a lot 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.680 of these televisions can also upgrade and incoming image. Essentially, 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.320 it's like interlacing. You're you're adding more pixels into it, 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.240 so you're artificially making it a higher definition picture. I 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.680 will tell you that by looking at what you could 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.280 certainly see the difference, like I've often said that between 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:47.880 two K and four K, it's really hard for me 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.320 to detect the difference. It's still true, but um, you 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.079 can tell that's sharper. A four K television is definitely 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.960 sharper than say, an HDTV. It did, however, bring up 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:04.440 some concerns which I very Cattalie talked about with a 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.720 friend of mine who was looking at the TVs with me, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:11.520 where she and I were focusing on the makeup of 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.280 the people on screen because you could see where it 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.640 was clumping. Oh, Jonathan, why would you? Why would you 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.280 do that when you yourself are filmed and aren't you 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.679 filmed in four K? For forward thinking, I am, and 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.920 that's exactly why I was looking at it and pay 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.520 because I was thinking, one day, the stuff I shoot 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.440 could be on one of these screens, and this is 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.520 what I'm going to look like. I'm just saying that 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.800 maybe you shouldn't be catty about it, Cattie, not not 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:40.080 about the person, but rather about the technology showing all 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.320 the flaws. I'm saying, makeup karma, man, makeup car no, no no, no, no. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.240 I totally get that. I totally get that. Like I 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.280 I don't, I don't want to be able to see 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.120 all the pores of a person. I don't blame the 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.959 person for the pores. I blame the technology. Um So 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.679 I'm a little bit freaked out by that too. I'm 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.199 not sure that I need that much detail of realism 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.240 when I'm watching. I don't know, can you are? Let 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.240 me let me let me give you a title of 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.559 a show, and I want you to imagine that title 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:10.120 that show in ultra high definition. Okay, Real Housewives of Atlanta, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.720 Real Housewives of Atlanta, ultra high definition. Can you imagine? 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.160 I think I think we're going to need a replacement host. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.400 So anyway, that's that was one of those things where 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.760 I can imagine it for certain things being incredible, like sports, 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.000 forget it, sports sports. They had some sports footage showing 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.080 on some of these TVs and it looked like you 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.000 were on the field. I mean it was beautiful. And 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.400 I'm not a big sports guy, but even I was 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.439 getting excited seeing this kind of thing. And uh and 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.160 and you know, I don't know, like like really really 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:47.120 visually arresting films, like I could picture getting pretty excited 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.800 about watching like a Julie Tamar movie on fork or 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:55.359 or giermol Pan's Labyrinth and four K would be amazing. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.360 Or if you're a ridiculous stener like me, like a 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.440 David Cronenberg film, that sounds the whole good, terrifying, wonderful. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.680 When you have to clean the viscera off the screen 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.840 of your television, you know, it's truly aversive. Well. One 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.720 of the TVs that I wanted to mention in particular 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.160 was a Samsung eight five inch television that was bendable. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.040 They were they had a lead screen and it could bend, yeah, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.480 like bended the push of a button demand you could 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.760 bend it. And the idea curve TVs, by the way, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.800 one of the big trends. Oh yeah, yeah, especially last year. 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.360 I think that everyone was like, it's curved and people 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.640 were like whatever, you know, how do I mount that 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.440 on my wall? Um? But the idea of the curved 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.480 screen gives you a wider viewing angle, right, because that's 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.320 one of the problems with the flat screens that you 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.840 start getting off to the side a little bit. And 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.520 if you're like me, like like my living room and 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.280 kitchen are next to each other, and that it's a 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.319 very wide kind of room. So if I'm in the 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.040 kitchen preparing something. I can see where the TV is, 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:50.599 but I can't really see what's on it because of 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.600 the angle I'm at curve TV, I would be able 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.559 to see a little bit more, and so this one 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.280 could actually go from flat to actual curve by pushing 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.640 the button. And at first everyone thought this is just 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.520 a pro type, it's just on display sea and then 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.000 they announced that it was going to be on sale 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:07.760 later this year. Yeah, second half, So that's something that 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.200 that might have been one of those things where they 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.120 were judging the response on the show floor deciding whether 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:13.480 or not to go forward, or it could have just 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.280 been that we were playing coy the whole time. I 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.920 don't know. So yeah, TV is huge obviously, so I 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.760 wanted to get that all the way because that's that's 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.640 the thing that you're going to see the most of 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.640 if you were to walk into, say the central hall. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.560 But let's move on. How about some of the more 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.160 funky ones, because we had people actually right in and say, 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.839 can you cover some of the strange tech that was 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:38.320 out there? How about polarized contact lenses? Oh yeah, I 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.040 saw that one in a vega. Yeah, it looks like 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:42.800 if you were to look at the actual lens. They 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.480 look like regular contact lenses. They're floating and solution, except 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.439 they have like a little silver disc. And it turns 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.760 out that it's a polarized contact lens that you wear 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.840 in in you pair it with a pair of augmented 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.360 reality glasses. All right, this isn't polarization with the purpose of, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.120 for example, UM cutting down on UV light the way 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.200 that a pair of polarized sunglasses would be UM. This 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:08.000 is this is specifically for watching tech, allowing you to 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:12.480 focus on two different focal ranges simultaneously. So and and 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.000 the way that it works I think, uh was that 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.719 if you have a filters in these micro lenses, they 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:22.880 can focus the display of a of a digital readout 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.600 onto the center of your retina while focusing the ambient 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.360 light that you're getting from the rest of the world 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.200 on the surrounding area of your retina. That's exactly right. 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.320 So let's say that I'm wearing these glasses and I'm looking, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.440 you know, off in the distance. Let's say that you're 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.080 you're thirty feet away from me, and you're waving to me, 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:39.800 and at the same time, I've got my Twitter feed 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.920 up because you know, I'm me, of course. So normally, 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:44.840 the way it would work, let's say if it's with 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.600 Google Glass, I would put my focus on the screen 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.480 that is physically closer to my eye, but I would 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.320 adjust so that it was looking at that focal length. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.480 You would be out of focus right right I. You 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.560 would just be a blurb bouncing up an on waving, 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.560 and I wouldn't even know. I just be mildly distracted 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.440 while I'm looking at all the replies of that funny 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.600 thing I just tweeted. But with this approach, you would 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.360 be in the same focal length. My brain would essentially 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.440 say that if I were focusing on you, I could 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.480 also at the same time focus on the stuff that 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.240 was coming through on the Twitter feed. And uh, that's amazing. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.080 So to be able to be able to focus on 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.360 something that's literally right in front of your eye and 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.840 something that's further like twenty feet away at the same 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.640 time is kind of phenomenal. Yeah, and this is definitely 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.080 in the research kind of stages right now. But the applications, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.320 I mean, this is the technology that could make augmented 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.880 reality work. Yeah, yeah, if if if you want to 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.400 have something that's not just a tiny little screen that 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.520 you have to look away from the world. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.040 and that you can wear while you're driving or something 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.680 like that. That's pretty neat. So I got to hold 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.880 the contact lenses. They didn't let me put them on 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.320 because they only had the one pair. Another big thing 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.280 that was shown off, actually it's not big, it's mall. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.160 But another thing that was shown off quite a bit 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.960 where the throw projectors. These are the ideas of, you know, 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.280 a projector that you can put in a room that 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.360 will project against a wall or a screen. And they 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.320 had a four that Some of them were really beautiful. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.640 Sony had a four K throw projector that you can 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.600 put up right next to a wall. It was kind 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.560 of like a little pyramid and it leaned back would 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.640 project the display directly against the wall. You had put 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.640 it in front of four K resolution. I think it's 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.640 like thirty dollars, So you know, it's just a just 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.760 a quick joint to the mortgage company to put a 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.520 second mortgage on my house and I can get one 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.120 of these things. Um. But it was really kind of 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:40.880 a neat idea. And of course these are the sort 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:45.080 of technologies the prices will fall as manufacturing processes and 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.400 improve and demand increases. Sure, I imagine that this will 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.920 be a luxury item for a good period of time, 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.520 because even pretty conventional projectors right now are still not 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.600 pretty expective. Yeah, and you know that there's an obvious 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.520 attraction to them because you're not limited to the size 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.679 of a television screen, even a big TV screen. You 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.000 can go. You can go even bigger than the biggest 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.560 TV screens that are conventionally available. And you don't have 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.320 to figure out, how do I support this enormous piece 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.120 of technology, because it's just rejection. Yeah. And and when 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.200 you're I mean, at a certain point, you're you're cutting down. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.720 I would imagine on a little bit of the energy 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.720 of running a a l ED or a LEAD. And furthermore, 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.879 the components for an l D and O LEAD are 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.760 are not cheap all the time. That's true too, especially 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.159 if you want to go to AMMA lead. If you 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.600 go to m LAD, then you get talking serious cash. Uh. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.640 The Oculus Rift had a new prototype, yeah, the crystal 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.879 cove version. This one actually had on it some little 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.560 sensors on the outside that allow a camera to help 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.040 track your motions to make it even more precise, right, 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.479 A separate camera that you that you mount somewhere in 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.359 your room, and it's got a little the little motion 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.199 tracker like stickers almost around the set kind of like 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.640 you know, you're you're you've got uh like a golem 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.120 there on your eyes. And using that technology, it will 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.800 let the wear um like like lean over a ledger, 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.600 peer around a corner in its in the game world, 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.440 right right, it gave even more points of articulation within 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.520 the virtual world. Now. They were quick to say that 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:20.440 the the consumer Oculus Rift may or may not ever 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.480 use the same sort of technology, right, This is all 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.640 in prototype still so and also there's no telling that 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.120 this particular prototype is going to go to developers anytime soon. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.640 Oh sure. Yeah. Um other features that this one had 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.920 I read about and and led display, higher resolution um 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.560 yeah yeah, high lower latency, lower latency, less motion blur um. 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.440 Palmer Lucky said specifically about that that manufacturers have been 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.879 starting to take him seriously since he you know, raised 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:50.520 over seventy five million dollars in funding and funding over 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.280 the past year. So and that there and that that 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:56.920 has helped him, um create some dedicated parts for this 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.800 device as opposed to just hey, let's Hey, let's let's 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.199 show did this talent into into this, so that that 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.360 was pretty cool. And another headset. There are a couple 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.359 of different headsets that were on display at CES, but 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.680 the only other one that I personally got a chance 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.880 to take a look at was a Sony headset. Oh yeah, 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:19.240 they're wearable HDTV right yeah hmz T three q uh 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.520 just rolls off the tongue. So this this is not 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.480 for gaming, you know. Oculus Rift is mainly for gaming 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.439 virtual reality kind of approach, although they've talked about other 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.119 potential applications, but that's the main focus, right, This one's 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.239 not that way. The idea is that you're there as 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.640 a passive observer for entertainment, So in other words, you're 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.919 watching movies and television on this thing. But but my 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:42.879 movies are television that have been filmed with like a 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.080 hundred and seventy degree field of view that you can 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.720 kind of look around in. It's yeah, it's kind of designed. 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.719 The idea is that sort of creates a representation of 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.600 sitting in a movie theater looking at seventy five ft 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.359 wide screen. So I imagine that you're saying, in the 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.480 best seat in the house, there's no and sitting in 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:02.800 front of you, but you're and you're viewing a mute 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.560 a movie. That's what it's supposed to be. That that's 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.600