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hello everybody welcome to day three of 2d s 2017 at the scene that stage I'm Maya's Akhtar alongside Roger float like a butterfly sting like a bumble bee Cheng and Ben Fox Ruben for a bigger than usual episode of her excellent bite size news podcast at 3:59 if you're new to the show you should really watch the show Roger and Ben break down the most important tech stories in about four minutes hence the title of the show actually we're gonna start off with a guest we've got MQ Wang CEO and founder of zero zero robotics to talk about his flying camera the hover passport camera it's called the remote so this is the first flying drone all on the market actually recognized its owner and allows you to interact with the completely phone free without any controller so the way it works is I'll fired up the app and I'm gonna record a new owner so what it does is it's gonna let me turn my face around and then just take a few shots on my face and then send it to this device from then on I don't need my phone anymore I could just you know press a button and let go of it you know as it's gonna spin in the scan environment to look for me there you go once it locks on to me if I move it just moves with me so it's a completely autonomously following camera and the cool part is if I want to stop feet I want to follow to be taken all I need to do is to hold out my palm and the light will blink in the signal to me it's basically doing like a countdown on your at the timer oh the old school timer on your phone and it will just never photo if I wanted to stop a hold on my hand again and give the okay sign and they'll just stay there waiting for me to retriever and I can just grab a like this the facial recognition account how does that scanning work how reliable is that it's actually pretty reliable right so the reason we would ask you to turn around a little bit is because the camera the flying camera will look at you not just from the front but from the side and from behind as well but once they lost unto you is not just relying on the features that extracts from your face is actually trying to separate separate you away from the their environment and people have standing next to you so it is that contrasts our algorithm which makes it even more robust so that's a new software upgrade that's coming in about two to three weeks exactly yeah so since we launched the product in late October we were are the entry introduced three upgrades each of them gives you better experience new features and this is the beauty of you know this generation of flying robots right because you can do what we call OTA over-the-air upgrades of the firmware and the software at all times what are some of the other hand gestures that people can expect yeah so these seven hand gestures altogether when we release this to our users it's gonna allow hover camera to do things like 360 orbit orbit around you so sort of like self spinning or spinning around you and and you can actually control this position as well so up and down left and right I saw a demo yesterday at the booth it seems really like kind of crazy to believe that that exists at all I know that's been out since you said October so so it's $5.99 correct that's correct and it's this software upgrade three to three weeks I'll use this and you'll be able to be followed around by a flying camera essentially then I was talking to somebody they're like don't call it a drone yes cuz you're not racing this thing it's really meant to be a camera he's got about what a 10 to 15 minute battery life that's right each battery gives you 10 minutes of flight time and we ship two batteries with the standard package we were actually just running around so yes yesterday was hover camera following us and it was kind of fun we think of it as your personal photographer right not so much as a troll yes so it's a 13 megapixel camera that gives us 13 megapixel photos and it shoots up to 4k videos yay photos you can show off come and take some photos of us on the stage we can maybe shout the camera so that gives us a 720 life view of where we are and let it go and there you go that's the three of us right Hey oh yeah just now the photo you just do that that's is that easy I'm gonna bring it up a little more well and then point it downwards so the camera actually tilts you know 30 degree downwards and I'm sorry 90 degrees I would answer it ports right I can move it back a little bit sweetie just like that and today once you take that modem can I show okay grab that problem show up the camera yeah can we look at it one two three there you go yeah and I'm going to show you the cabin through the phone it's instantly transmit it beautiful this is the the shot that we just took live on the stage nice it's ridiculous that actually just happened that's real that's like that drone that actually made me look good that's impressive beautification function that we build into identifying you know the best-looking people yeah and not do anything with them like I mentioned it's 13 yeah yeah it's just 4k videos actually yeah so I know it does optical sorry does electronic assist in ATP correct that's right but it doesn't do 4k yeah it's 4k you know like it's too large and the processing time that requires to process a video stream is too long so you won't get a life yeah but where do offline video stabilization of 4k videos though yeah well we haven't built into the app yet we could totally do that okay so these days you know it's all about short content that you instantly share with your friends and family nobody really shares that much 4k videos ready to go you know not a Facebook but yeah as the network gets faster I'm sure people will be seeing a lot more 4k videos floating around price and availability again I know it's five it's five hundred nine nine US dollars but you get a whole package there's an extra battery there's a carry case there's spare propellers everything and you can get it from get hover calm and real quick is really light do you have to register with a ship very important so this is 242 grams to be exact so that's under half a pound and it's under the weight limit regulation imposed by FA so you don't need a license to operate it and all carbon fiber right exactly freaking light actually you can press on that it's very sturdy so if if this is built out of plastic when you apply that much pressure it would just break but because it's common fiber is so sturdy and this light all right we're gonna take a quick break and come back with more 359 all right thank you guys thank you thank you 59 last day of coverage of CES 2017 you know one of the things we've seen in a lot of booths Intel Qualcomm Ericsson even a lot of 5g talk yeah Wireless crazy fast speeds I know even Roger I was reading on your articles a long time ago well long time ago a couple months ago you know tech time is weird so I think we rising like 3.7 gigabits per second for their 5g wireless what did you see out there you know what what 5g it's not I don't think people are publicly talking about that much but it's sort of this undercover trend this undercurrent what it is right a 5g is so fast and so responsive that it's really the network that everyone's looking at to power all the other trends that we're seeing self-driving cars Internet of Things high quality 4k streaming video all that stuff needs to have a wireless connection if we're gonna be mobile and right now 4G and LTE not really cutting it's not as responsive enough there everyone's sort of looking at 5g it's a really holy grail for getting everything connected in a real responsive way one 5 G's gonna roll out with these networks is I think 18 t is testing it out somewhere I'm completely blank of where it was with it they started trials that are going to start trials with in terms of like a de as a home broadband replacement right like taking out all the wires are just going full 5g we're not really gonna see 5g you know in a real way like we CLT it's more gonna be like 2018 2020 if they're still kind of working out that's why there's it's why people really talking about it behind closed doors it's not really super public you're not seeing a lot of 5g devices here at the show fact is Ericsson is got a giant booth and then all it's all about 5 G's in the location of where dish used to be just got pushed aside yeah and they're right across and this is this little pavilion Pavilion essentially of Intel Qualcomm Ericsson and 5 G's plastered everywhere yep and that's that speed I'm waiting for that one day like it's it's once we were 300 times faster than LTE right now yeah it's uh it's a times faster than the fastest possible home connection you can get broadband not even the wireless like it's amazingly fast isn't the type of thing where you're gonna end up with a bottleneck if you don't get 5g soon enough like some of the concepts or like live streaming VR autonomous cars like do we need 5g as an ingredient in those recipes that actually make those things happen too so what the carrots are doing or they're upgrading LT at the same time they're trying to get LT to the point where it's fast enough like so it's an OK experience but 5g really unlocks things like self-driving cars like there was the responsiveness the latency of the 5g Network is almost real-time LTE there's always a little bit of lag when you ping something and you know when you're in a self-driving car and it's about to go to an accident like you need to have that zero latency like it's gotta be super responsive that's where 5g unlocks or the full potential of a self-driving car there's crazy speeds even if it's lagging and slow a slow fire G connection is way faster than the fastest LTE right that's one of the things I always look when this is so nerdy night now I build my home network and I'm working on those things I check on my qualia it's gonna be slow here but it's still fast enough for me because you want to be able to pull 4k video that'd be great if you could do that on the phone you try that now it's gonna just stutter and it's gonna die out there so what they did have kind of a prototype 5g network at the Erickson booth what they were doing is pulling live 360 feet from the Intel booth and streaming into an oculus rift like in real time the quality was pretty damn good this is a this is through a wireless network yeah this is through 5g like this is like the simulated 5g network that they put up so speaking of VR and AR right so we VR last year was actually pretty big last year here cuz yet oculus had a booth noctus does not have a booth this year but there's still a VR section and augmented reality while I didn't say VR virtual reality and augmented reality section what did you guys think of what we saw this year you know I I was a little disappointed I mean there's some hardware that's great but you know the problem right now VR is there's not a lot of watch and stuff I saw mounted to teasers and commercials so it was a little disappointing underwhelming for me the Intel one at the Intel event there were a lot of different demonstrations I definitely liked the concept of live sports in Villar you know you get you get a better appreciation of like what it's actually like to be there but at the same time yeah I agree with you that I think it's still gonna take a little bit longer for us to get the amount of content that we really need the content I was on the floor checking out a lot of the hardware I liked a lot of the hardware when it came to ODG they have these awesome glasses they're essentially like an Android phone on your face it's had a snapdragon 835 in there which is anyone out yet and it had a great picture quality so I thought the hard work is actually getting there because I have a daydream view at home and it just kind of Falls pulls forward the OTG you can see it right now it's got a lot of cool things that's a nose pad right there they can actually adjust you can bring it up or down if you have different shaped nose they can actually change that out for you they also have a little snap ins for your prescription lenses they were super comfortable image quality was great it cost about $1000 coming out later this year whoa whoa whoa a thousand bucks thousand dollar 720p images though and the other thing is they've really modified Android so you can have the image either on your left eye your right eye or both so whatever you're doing you can see what you're doing they've also change notifications I'm like this is actually a really good implementation of how it should be because I was I was so surprised at how light it was because it felt like all right I'm gonna put this thing on it's got all the electronics in the actual device put it on and it just felt like my glasses so we tried it onstage actually earlier this week and one of things that really impressed me they showed me a demonstration live sports on display but sort of underneath it was this 3d rendering of the field and the players in 3d kind of moving around and you could sort of manipulate it with with the glasses it was it was actually really stunning and Paul I was I came away impressed but again great hardware not a lot of content I mean I go back to that Qualcomm Power Rangers experience I would try yesterday I loved it because you don't like fire rains apparently look you get on the Zord and like 10 seconds later the whole thing's over when you're about to get to the cool stuff it's like oh and you're complaining because they don't have enough content in the actual adventure as it was but I'm just saying if you if you enjoy Power Rangers and you get to see the actual Megazords around you it's awesome Roger well they are also doing some stuff where they're trying to improve the hardware where they're at additional enablement slike for instance we saw the high pursuit at CES unveiled which is basically like this ridiculous looking metal rig that you get on top of and it simulates flying you know those are armed controls right there it looks pretty ridiculous but at the same time it's like how do we make this even more immersive like when I said I look like the back of the old arcade games super hang on he's kind of kind of on its motorcycle kind of thing but yeah it it doesn't it looks way more ridiculous there's Scott Stein taking a bullet for us all right there he was at the trying this out and there you have to lay on it looks like a massage table or something when you're moving your arms you supposed to have a real experience as if you're flying I don't know if that's necessary but I thought it was a really cool idea so you gotta figure how look you got VR you can't walk around everywhere lastly we have that 360 kind of treadmill little plastic thing you can kind of run around in you got to figure out how can you not bump into stuff the high pursuit as ridiculous as it looks you're not going to run into people but let me let me ask you who's gonna get this it's like first casinos theme parks you're not supposed to buy it okay so where is this gonna be like it like back from the old surface table existed same kind of thing this idea that I believe it belongs in arcades like where you are what our VR belongs in arcades flat-out because it only belongs in the 80s basically yeah I guess so you know things come back Roger I don't know if you're old enough to know this but there's there cycles to things and things come back you know bell-bottoms will be back again in 20 years you're like oh and why it was back in the 90s and it shouldn't be there our cage will be back okay I promise there might be in bowling alleys I don't know all right so now we've we've killed this to this horse it's gone now what's your favorite thing you've seen at CES been about you bumblebee oh geez I would probably say it would be the the hush me which is this it's this kind of crazy-looking muzzle type of situation where if you're in an open office space what you can do is have private conversations even if folks are sitting next to you so yeah it's in it looks pretty strange this is an actual device and it's a muzzle for humans right but you know this guy could be having a private conversation you'd be calling his doctor his wife or whatever even if he's in the office or he's out and about whatever what are the other aspects of it is is that it adds like voice filters so you can sound like Darth Vader if you want to obviously they it's not even gonna hit crowd sourcing platforms until a little bit while longer so this thing I don't know I thought it was kind of fun we have an open office in the New York office and it's very very loud when you have some very loud people everyone's gonna look like Bane from Batman you know and talk like him apparently right is that an option you can do Bane in the dark videos just said wait yeah not been yet but maybe they gotta have Bane right like that's exactly what Bane looks like without the glasses I don't I don't know about this and whether it should exist or not but you know what one of my favorite things about see that's the fact that you see crazy stuff like that because you got it throw everything at the wall and see what sticks and this it might work in an open office environment we might see an investment I believe in our our office you think so especially for you I don't know I don't know it's it's another one of those things like the hyper suit that looks strange and you kind of have to convince people that you're not gonna look like an idiot actually buying this thing and using it I was just I was wowed by the LG w7 TV like that's a super-thin TV it's 2.5 7 millimeters thin and I have this weird cognitive dissonance I'm like it's so thin it's awesome why would you spend $8,000 that's actually the price they told us that yesterday $8,000 is available to pre-order right now I'm like this it's it's really cool they keep saying like you can't distinguish it from the wall it's it's less than four millimeters away from the wall with its new mount it's got these you screw in two points and you have two magnets on the bottom it's 18 pounds so you'd have to worry about studs you don't to worry about actually mounting this is something sturdy you can just put it up on anything I was just amazed by that actually this is so thin to attach an HDMI cable and stuff you couldn't do that so they decided to put a ribbon cable proprietary ribbon cable to the sound bar you can see it it's this giant sound bar dolby atmos and when you turn it on these two speakers actually rise out of it because why not just spend a thousand dollars on the TV I don't need it but I want it oh it's don't eat it wine is so nice too it's really gorgeous oled screen do you imagine that it's all that's it like it's pure black you're getting real awesome color there did you see Saad on the floor oh yeah yeah yeah no and Katz Meyer our TV expert loves OLED really sort of the high end in terms of video yeah I have to grid some awesome stuff so Roger what was your favorite thing mine was a 1 actually I found at the Erickson booth it was the tact I touch platform was this little accessory to your VR headset like an oculus rift revived and attaches to your finger it's got a little haptic feedback so whenever you're when you're in the virtual world if you're touching something it'll actually push back so it'll feel like you're actually pressing a button remote control or at one point I was like patting a teddy bear and I actually was able to grab a Pepsi can and throw it and it's I mean after a while starting to get convinced that I was actually touching felt that natural it felt pretty natural it's a look it's a little early I feel like a little janky that kind of came off sometimes a little loose but it took the promise of it that I mean that's a real useful thing right when you're the virtual world you are a little disconnected right like you've got you can see everything but you can't really touch and this actually adds a new element or dimension to the VR experience yeah that seems like a really good idea because you know it's one thing to be immersed in it it's another thing to be able to actually interact with it so that's like we said the high pursuit you try to figure out how do you actually then make these things feel real so I'm this is a pretty cool product I don't try to find it later I didn't sort of wrap it up for us you think so guys you can find it 359 we did it because my 359 on iTunes SoundCloud Google Play and of course cnet.com for the 359 podcast I'm Maya's actor I'm Roger Chang I'm Ben Fox Mervin thanks for watching up next the laptop reviews team is here with all their favorite laptops they've seen at the show stay with us