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on today's show NASA launches a little plane that can lift off like a helicopter and fly like an airplane and aerogels their 3d printed kind of cool and the biggest announcement from oculus rift yet finally know when we're gonna get it it's tomorrow daily gritty citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best week talk show in the known universe I'm Ashley sceva join he's always Cal anonymous I didn't know you were gonna do that to me and I thought you plan I thought it was like the start of its this is the release date for the oculus rift and so was waiting for you to finish your sentence and then I realized that you cued me and that's the thing we do on you get amber get what I was doing you guys doing it was a trick for both both the audience are loyal audience and me almost nobody win it almost went over my head but then a catcher's mitt came up from behind my collar and grabbed it and was like I got it I got it a little robot catcher's mitt yeah I have a robot lives in the back of my neck that's that's what I like to do uh so let's not very lead here let's talk about oculus rift and hit the headlines okay so we know the wonders of the oculus rift it's so great there's been two iterations of it when can I line up hold on I'm building up to my right now okay so basically Facebook has announced the official date that we're going to be able to as consumers get our hands on the oculus rift and it is officially 2016 21 20 16 so next next year alright so it's I mean look at there's there's the the consumer dark it's yummy can barely see it but I mean to me that's that's sexy that's a very I'm just gonna wear around okay so here's the deal here's why that's kind of like oh not so great their Facebook okay because there's actually I like headsets coming out before that let's just let's run them down okay okay so i don't know if you remember valves valve and HTC's of I've by the vibe that's actually coming out this year 2015 late this year so that's going to beat out the oculist okay so that's the one with the the lighthouse on the front one that's pretty great hollow lens is supposed to come out when Windows 10 comes out that's a are but that's supposed to come out when Windows 10 comes out this year this year me hololens got it so and then also let's not forget the the first one that's going to come out which is razors Oh vr headset it's going to be pretty cheap too and that's coming out July 2015 so learn practically all of them are going to be that Samsung gear VR is already already on the annual cardboard is or do the s6 vr is I believe out like either now are very very soon like their this is like okay now we have the updated one for the galaxy s6 and the s6 edge so not only does the oculus rift app competition it's also going to be late to the game veyron now so that is actually so that's that's that's the entire news that's the news got it okay but for anybody that's falling VR and sit like this is like taking this to the future and everybody's getting into it the question is is that too late and are they going to beat the oculus our parent gonna be like well I've got the OS VR or oh I've got a bye why why should I care about the oculus so that is a huge conversation you do to this announcement being so late it is late and one also it's asking I mean you kind of alluded to this it's asking consumers to wait through flick four or five different headsets that are out this year like oh well you get cardboard cuz it's inexpensive but you have to have a specific size phone you can do a galaxy s6 but you gotta have this phone like and but for me it's like you got to wait through those three major headsets and just trust us and I mean I like the oculus rift a lot and we're gonna see it at e3 we're gonna be able to see it at e3 this year which we're very excited about um this is less using the not us but seeing it using the Crescent Bay prototype over I think this was that CES um so for me it's you know I don't know because oculus is asking people to wait they're saying just hold out don't buy any other headsets because it's not gonna be cheap like I mean no even a couple hundred yeah i think the razor cheap the razor is supposed to be the cheap one the hollow lens you're not gonna be able to afford like ninety-nine percent of you guys are not gonna be able to afford that letting us including me no we couldn't even scrape together in about yourselves Logan producer Logan's loaded he is eres tu an amazing macadamia fortune that you guys just you don't even know so I through and through I've always believed that it's gonna be who did it right who is going to whether it be valves headset the vibe releasing maybe a game like portal or maybe releasing if half life 3 like if they do that they win right there going to be out of the gate and people are going to want to develop for that however if at e3 the game changes for instance of oculus get some sort of exclusive things for facebook or on the oculus rift exclusive it's all gonna be about like that who is good like if they have exclusives that's how they can jockey for a lead position it's just like smartphones and I and and even you know streaming media it's always it never matters who does it first it always matters who does it best and and like you were saying and then the second part of that is is it's all partnerships now because basically everyone's got to get like it's a big now mad scramble for Hollywood studios for gaming companies for people to make this content for that headset and that headset alone yeah so if Facebook is the only one that allows you to experience some sort of Facebook thing yeah accidentally oculus then they may win but playstation home but there's there it's going to be a very very interesting year because now now that all these headsets are coming out and everyone's like okay we have our headset now they need to actually start like show us yeah showing us their cards and and and figuring out what what's the better headset and why should i get there's big problem with oculus they're not gonna make the Christmas they're not gonna make Christmas that's a big deal that's a big deal and that's that's why vibe is coming out holiday season they want to make christmas sales they want to get in but if there's a king raccoon think about how long that's a thing like honest has been in development for ever and we and people have had hands on it um people have gotten to make content for it there's a whole world of content out there for the oculus we've heard so many great things about the vibe to like from what people have seen we've heard some really incredible things and I trust valve as a company to make something spectacular yeah I think i did cuz they haven't released a lot of cool hardware yet so i agree with that however I do think there are a lot of creative people there that could make something really special and I like I I trust them to at least try like to try to make something really special I'm not discounted i'm not i'm not out the best waiting for their makings i'm not saying it's gonna be a home run it could be a strikeout I'm just saying they're smart move would be to make a game because like I said the person that's gonna win is gonna be the one that makes it so that we want to put the head start on three that we're not just putting it on out of curiosity portal 3 but that we want to put it on yeah um it's gonna be a living in any of their games that need a three is all they need is a half life portal I could you imagine how my portal dad both portal 3 a left 4 dead what they just do all them for dead yeah well compatible are we amazing huh so there you go very interesting is I wish it was our hashtag of the day you know it's funny you mention that because it is it's TD rift is our oh my god I said I'm so surprised you're like it's like you're psychic or reading the show notes it's over God's like I work on the show dad I'm so strange um tell us are you in on rift are you out on riff some people are like I'm over it I'm done I've been watching this thing and development i'm tired i want something else I'm I'm all in on hololens a ours where it's at some people are like I can't wait for oculus rift I will wait for it I don't want anything else and other people I'm on the fence what's it gonna take what's it gonna take for you to be fully in or fully out on risk I'll add something to that this is a question for you to just right now with all that you know which headset if you were just like hey we're gonna send you one free in the mail which headset would you want to get and let's let's not let's take out hollow words yeah cuz I want a whole different i want it i want to click this to your how many practice to VR so which headset would you like to receive in the mail just like a now knowing everything right now I rift I want to risk your going rift I would go rest alright because it's because there are partnerships that we know about their there are things that are being developed there that we've seen so I've seen things for riff that I haven't seen on those other headsets that's a really good point I don't think there's a wrong answer no there isn't there is no wrong as for my money I I really want the the vibe i want the vibe because it has that lighthouse in it and it recognizes things and it pretty good it has facial recognition you it knows the room it knows if you're going to touch a wall it knows you're getting close to a wall it's a it's a bigger step in the VR that we've already done okay the documents the accuracies the oculus solid but the vibe it's adding that extra step but like you said relationships so really we want to know your feedback TD kale there's what it is a rift TD riffs okay if you want to give your kale feedback you can always do that just find me on Twitter um okay we got to talk about these other two stories I'll make them quick because we really kind of dove in to oculus today Viera live but okay so nASA has this new space this new is not a spacecraft I want to call it a spacecraft because it comes from NASA but it's not it's an unmanned aerial vehicle it's called greased lightning it's gl10 night in um and it's so small it's it's only 10 feet wide so here it is like they're bring it out to carrying it out yeah 3 meters wide and this thing is pretty awesome it's an electrically powered craft and it can take off vertically like a helicopter and then fly horizontally like an airplane so pretty pretty cool that they're sort of working on this type of technology and again electric this is the first time that they were able to successfully transition from vertical to horizontal flight to airplane mode they're called as air that's their airplane mode for their version of airplane mode hi guys but this is that this is the take-off so straight up you don't need a runway it doesn't need to just need to ride and you know get some velocity going for it lifts off into the sky got it going straight up in the air which is pretty cool there are eight propellers all along the wings there's four on each side and there's two propellers in the back and basically the four propellers on each side of the wings are controlled in groups so each side of the wings propellers are controlled and engineers are saying that this type of concept could be used to deliver sort of small payloads where runways aren't really an option so if you you know wanted to deliver something to a small village maybe somewhere or maybe somewhere where there's a lot of thick brush things like that you couldn't um or maybe in a disaster zone you couldn't deliver something you would have to a vertical takeoff and landing this would be sort of an OP oh that is sexy that is so sexy so cool so um and then they said a larger scaled up version would fit maybe like one to four people for a short travel for short trips and stuff and apparently it is four times more efficient than a standard helicopter down with us this is so cool to me i love these sort of little projects that they're doing and i'm looking forward to seeing kind of where this might go look at that superhero now that guy is serious very cool crash that thing right on but yeah I thought that was really neat and and then uh real quick before you can go to that next story uh Logan which headset do you want for the VR rig breath oh my god I mom there's nobody answer that usually there's nervous there's no wrong answer we're still in the ? okay so third story so we've mentioned aerogels before do you remember the picture I took when i did that JPL tour of the block of aerogel is like second lightest solid on the planet it looks see through its kind of transparent like it's really cool it's got great insulation properties you can like there's always like experiments online where you can hit a blowtorch at the underside and have like a flower on the other side of like a thin panel vera gel and it doesn't burn huh which is amazing so Erik Jones a pretty awesome substance and the Lawrence Livermore National Lab made an aerogel at using graphene which is also a very curious material that we've been hearing a lot about in the news and they didn't using 3d printing and so this is kind of a big deal in that usually you can't really control the architecture of like this of like this type of thing and so they said if we can control this architecture and exactly how it is created so you can see it's like there's a very specific shape to it they said we might be able to pave the way for aerogels to be used in applications that have been totally unavailable to science for development up until this point which is like flow batteries or sensors different things where you might consider graphing like we remember how we've seen like sort of graphene as a as maybe a battery replacement like there's a out of different experiments going on around graphene right now in science and so this is really cool that they have been able to do this it is a controllable and scalable assembly so they're saying that's been a really big challenge that's one of it that's been one of the biggest challenges up until this point and they've been able to kind of tackle that which is fantastic and I just really like that they're sort of combining both of these not mysterious materials but these materials that are so special and so cool and have their own sort of interesting properties they're able to actually combine them and 3d print out aerogel made with graphene which is just the beard future tech fusion of materials type stuff so I just I saw that and I thought it was really neat and if you guys want to read about it it is a crazy process to create this that you can read about in nature communications as a journal that they published in so you can check out the whole the whole shebang it's like very dense but if you love science you know pin our genius viewer pin will probably read through it in about 10 minutes and understand all of it and build his own graphene aerogel 3d printer on but but super fascinating stuff for anybody who's into that kind of thing and I just saw it and thought it was pretty cool so just so you know just an FYI uh but that's it for headlines and we're gonna come right back it's Wednesday so we have a pretty great mod spa that you're gonna like it's Grand Theft Auto based its grand theft auto okay well then hurry up and get over the commercial break okay let's do that let's we will be right back so don't click away welcome back to the show kale is mimicking a very delightful animated gif I saw on the internet we did he sent me yesterday of an Italian Greyhound who is unable to keep its derp in its mouth really cute I want to see it dog derbs dog turks are the best ok so it's Wednesday which means we got to talk about Mod Squad I could have done better um so in Grand Theft Auto 5 if you have not played it your menus are played out by your cell phone those are that's the game you you pull it up your character goes like everything you go through all your little menus and stuff okay so this is a really awesome mod I thought so the pc mods just came out skills into it last week and this guy figured out how to control the in-game phone menu with his iphone he like recreated it and is able to actually just pick up his phone and use it as a sort of continue the realistic feel of the game so his name's planet leaked on reddit the guys on reddit and he recreated the in-game phone app with Xcode and then using an Arduino web server I made it work inside the game so the I believe that our jurina web server sends like macro information like macro keyboard information over to the game so I could be wrong about that he added a bunch of buttons and like gesture control for the menus so it feels a little smoother to use on iOS but taking a picture how amazing oh yeah he's taking a picture in game which his actual iphone what's really crazy is that Trevor's phone is broken this is the character he's playing us right now is broken it has a little crack in it because he's a weird guy he actually has the crack on the actual image on the app yeah yeah it's fantastic I mean this guy really spent spent a little time like kind of working on this and I just thought it was really fun and like what a great way to sort of do something exciting and cool for the game that you really like planes this is only the beginning oh pls GTA mods oh my god this is so good would you install this Logan know a lot of people are saying yeah a lot of people are saying it's a time waster but just for the it's sort of like a you know it's like a gimmicky kind of like a don a mod yeah but I love it I think it's pretty great listen planet League great i tell you what i tell you what if they added it so that it would use your accelerometer and when you taking the picture because you can do the pictures that would be free and you move around like this and it actually moves on the screen I would enjoy that how about that Logan okay sold all right get on it unfortunately it's not you can't download the mod right now but cuz he's not done so it's not complete yet but um I just thought it was really cool with that I'm hoping that maybe he'll release it for everybody to use yeah but you gotta have a yard short of server and my account I heard about that yeah rocks are being single player but there's the field of vision thing that was the big one that a lot of people i guess or reporting the field of vision mod anyways yeah yeah there's some there's a weird single-player bannings happening for grand theft auto 5 because of mods on pc so that's never good um but we got to talk about you guys it's time to talk about you guys it is user feedback you're Logan Richard GTA I'm Logan rich in GTA I just I just screwed up in the stock markets like I put a lot of money and I'm so loaded right now and you and it works in your favor oh yeah crazy mistake they were like no no and then you want a bunch of money in this really what I was doing I knew what I was doing but but it's all good you guys need some money kitchen t-cog come to pick up kayla only charge you eighty percent interest it's a very low interest rate you can get a very low interest rate from kill kills gonna start a loan company in Grand Theft Auto yell anonymous industries uh so all right what other was Tony TD robobee are we asked you guys to tell us if you would jump into a robot body which if you could and kill kill had a grin sir and I thought mine was ok but you guys a couple of you came up with some good stuff Neil Rodin said if I could essentially become immortal send me off as a probe to explore the galaxy with Tetris to stop boredom I like that right well he's a robot so he doesn't have to worry about like breathing in the vacuum of space I know how robot would be pressure and true season is the extent you Michael really I don't yeah all right huh well I guess that's sort of a game that never ends I mean I would not want to play a game that is linear that has a beginning a middle Internet yeah so fair enough but like worldly you're a robot you'd probably be like pretty good at Tetris like a couple days just FYI and then Frank wrote in and said if my girlfriend will do it too i want us to travel the universe in a robo body but still be able to make robo babies during travel that is that like that's adorable that's heartwarming sad part is that he wouldn't have a heart as a robot so no no but see again you'd have at least empathy like cuz it would be your consciousness in a robot all right so you'd have an understanding of human yeah I mean it's not like your heart is actually wanted they go okay the thing goes for thing oh that's it that's it we only got a couple of by the way okay so I was waiting to the end of this everybody just wants to be mortal apparently yeah people just you nobody sees any downside with being immortal nope okay nope i right i mean i never read any of those stories we're being immortal was bad well i mean it's very little boring but not bad boring as the more you just said you won't eat at all you're like not being in 30 years just like i've just seen it all over and over again yeah yeah it's just all the same spot another iphone yeah yeah iphone 1800 geez you'd be so cocky if you were immortal though if you look real I know everything we're gonna play GTA be rich that's true or I could just borrow some GTA money from you yes mad GTA money um okay guys it's time for the very last piece of user feedback which is always our phone talker for the day with a new viewer he wrote in yes finally finally one new viewer Joaquim wrote will ruin it in no time Joaquim read it I know we're sorry walking uh he wrote it and said hello cnet sorry show tomorrow daily and here are some pictures for the show hope you like them they're from where I live which is in the Swedish archipelago on the island cauldron maru rune Maru uh I mean it's amazing this first picture i really liked but the second one i produce iligan looks like silent he looks terrifying and it i feel like you could create an entire survival horror game right just surrounding this bench and this light post yeah i feel what's the story there what's happening what what what's the game that you're playing Joaquim should we send help are you trapped in Silent Hill are you trapped in Silent Hill this is because we can't get you out once you're inside the hell you're there no but these are these are really he's got a really good I yeah really good I I don't know what device he took this with cuz he didn't I'm assuming I probably didn't say like tell us what device you you took it with ya yesterday but or maybe the day before but yeah he sent these in and I just thought they were great so you're very cool a show something welcome to the show welcome to the team welcome to the team indeed were like the Avengers including you and everybody else watching except we don't actually do anything can I Black Widow yeah I'm Hawkeye kind of kind of useless quippy maybe a little quippy but I also like to remodel kitchens so there you go uh if you guys want to third told you don't pick on guy uh if you guys want to send it your phone ography you can email us you can also send in story ideas and all a bunch of whatever else you find across the internet tomorrow at cnet com and of course you can find us on social media we're tomorrow daily all over the shop on the internet except for snapchat which we do not have any more yep including itunes and youtube so don't forget to do those things um and don't forget to follow our personal Twitter's kill anonymous Ashley's together that's it for the show to you guys will be back tomorrow with a brand new Doggett of weird wonderful science back his science fiction smash together in your face being great and cool but until then begin humans because you guys are sent you