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Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from house Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant that makes this stuff.

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Speaker 1: You snow. Jerry's back there. We're all set got our

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Speaker 1: Mike's got the dinosaur. What's this dinosaur's name? Frank the chairs?

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Speaker 1: Uncle is here year old uncle who's in the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: Uncle Merle, the Frank the chair. His uncle Merle is

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Speaker 1: the dinosaur. Oh I was talking about the chairs sitting in?

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Speaker 1: Is that a nameless Oh yeah, this isn't Frank. Is

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Speaker 1: it Frank's on set at our TV show that we're shooting,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately with a TV show we're making. Is that set in? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's set in that I had to sit in that

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Speaker 1: stupid chair for sixty hours a couple of weeks ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is Uncle Merle the dinosaur, the stegasaurs. I believe sure.

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Speaker 1: There's only a couple of us out there. Chuck's wearing

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Speaker 1: a red shirt. It's yeah, um, so what is that again?

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Speaker 1: That's mo bro dot CEO slash Charles Bryant. Yes, thank

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Speaker 1: you in advance. Yeah, that's nice, Chuck. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: get to it. Chuck, you selected this one. How do

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Speaker 1: you feel it sounded a lot cooler? Yeah. We're talking

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Speaker 1: about holographic environments. Yeah, and you hear that you think

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Speaker 1: Man Star Trek. Yeah, it comes to life. So I

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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure I knew what I was talking about,

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Speaker 1: and I went and looked up the holidack. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it's apparently just from the next generation, like it wasn't

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Speaker 1: like original. I didn't see anything. I even looked on

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Speaker 1: a Star Trek wiki and it's it seemed to indicate

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Speaker 1: the first I'm so nervous right now. Well let's say this.

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Speaker 1: We'll find out one way or the other very quickly.

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Speaker 1: But it seemed to indicate from my cursory research that

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Speaker 1: the holidack was a feature on the Enterprise from the

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Speaker 1: twenty three sixties e g. Or I e. The next generation.

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Speaker 1: All right, so what it was? The hollow deck? Have

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Speaker 1: you seen it? Are you familiar? Star Trek cital? And

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Speaker 1: now I was in a Star Trek guy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it just kind of got past me. But have you

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Speaker 1: seen it? Did you? Did you see it? Yeah? Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's cool. You know, it is a projection, a holographic

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Speaker 1: You know, remember in Star Wars, which I am a

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Speaker 1: little holographic image of Princess Leiah rendering her message. Um,

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Speaker 1: imagine a room of life sized people doing that as

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Speaker 1: if you're interacting. Yes, that's a very important key, um,

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Speaker 1: talking about the Star Trek holographic environment where you can

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Speaker 1: someone else in a virtual environment. But you can interact

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Speaker 1: like you don't like when you walk around the backside

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Speaker 1: of somebody. It's not you're not getting in the way

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Speaker 1: of the projector. Can I read a line from the article? Yes,

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Speaker 1: eventually you will even be able to hug other people

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Speaker 1: using this technology. They should have put hug in quotes

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Speaker 1: like heavily. Well, I mean it's amazing technology, it is,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's just like nothing compared to teleimersion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: goal of true. And this article is has got to

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Speaker 1: be outdated, because laughably out of date because after witnessing

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Speaker 1: stuttering and flickering when you try to teleconference. Right, they

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Speaker 1: But the the the author Kevin Bondser makes a point

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Speaker 1: like if you walk out of the way of the webcam,

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Speaker 1: like when you're looking at the computer screen, the webcams

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Speaker 1: what you know, what's the point? Hang up? Your call

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Speaker 1: National telet Immersion Initiative. Yes, working together Chapel Hill looks

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Speaker 1: they still around? Their websites still around? But they reached

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Speaker 1: their pinnacle in May two thousand. Is it my space? Oh? Man,

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Speaker 1: yeah it is. And it's like what we're doing two thousand? Nothing? Nothing?

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Speaker 1: to this there we're back in two thousand and it's um,

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Speaker 1: of bandwidth. Yeah. So you're talking about two things. A

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Speaker 1: They also have enormous storage capabilities, and I saw one

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Speaker 1: of the things that they're doing is using this to

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Speaker 1: but true. You also have UM, well just basically tracking somebody,

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Speaker 1: which Microsoft has done a lot to get past. Are

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Speaker 1: UM he uses an overhead screen to project a two

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Speaker 1: onto a desktop. Basically, what it looks like is, UM,

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Speaker 1: clear screen. Yeah, so if you look below that screen,

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Speaker 1: look through that screen, you're gonna see holographic images. In

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Speaker 1: this case, there were like little glowing balls that you

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Speaker 1: could pick up and juggle, and you could pick it

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Speaker 1: that's huge. That's hugely different than anything that this article

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Speaker 1: like you're interacting with a virtual environment. It's reacting to you.

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Speaker 1: You can when you're holding one of those balls. You

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Speaker 1: but like there's a virtual ball and you're picking it

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Speaker 1: And I mean that's an enormous lead forward. It's pretty wicked. UM.

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Speaker 1: like roll this out anytime soon. But the stuff you

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