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on today's show a way to make a vinyl record mixtape also a robot that's gonna make you pancakes and we're gonna show you an IRL first-person shooter that's better than all of your other first-person shooters pretty great Samara daily creating citizens with the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk-show in the known universe I'm Ashley together that's calamus and one of these days I might have to say that's kill anonymous I'm Ashley together just to throw everybody off yeah people would probably stop watching they would get really confused and just shut it off like that's not true stop navigate away on that note let's talk about our headlines all right so I mentioned vinyl record mixtapes obviously it's really expensive to make a small batch vinyl record what do you look is there spider in my of you have one hair that is pointing straight up into the air and it's like like I got it it's like a like a dr. Seuss character it's just no it just gets crazy anyway I'm sorry science anyway science so it's really expensive to make a vinyl record really expensive especially if you want to do small bats because usually if you go to a company that presses vinyl they say you cut it order at least a thousand like or 500 or whatever but that not anymore that's not the case there is a there's a company called vinyl of phi vinyl if i ify if I was vinyl 5 first vinyl if I who wants to who wants to make their mark on the record industry by hand cutting one-off records impressing your vinyl mixtape that's super cool into a one-of-a-kind item which is pretty awesome um ok so here's how it works there's they they were based in the Netherlands and so they started this service a few months ago and now you can get them shipped to the internationally like you can go if you live in a different country which is pretty cool they're opening it up to international orders it's actually much less expensive than I thought it's 55 bucks it's a 50 euro to get a custom press record you get 10 minutes on each side and here's how you do it you go to the website you upload tracks that you own or have permission from the artist yeah you can't can't use Taylor Swift or Avicii or any other unless you're Taylor in which case I think you're probably not going to use this service so yeah you upload tracks that you own or vinyl actually is working with artists to get permission and so they actually have an online library of music tracks that you can choose from right now they're very netherlands-based artists and European artists but they did say that with their international release they're gonna try to get more artists permission and more songs and things like that so you might see maybe in the future you might see some of your favorite artists put their tracks up there or maybe give permission to have people like make a mixtape out of a vinyl record they accept really high quality audio so you can upload like flak or wave like really really high quality stuff and then you can design your own cover art they have like two templates and then a fully custom like upload your image as the cover art where you make your whole front and back and then you pay and they hand cut your record press the covers and then press it and then they ship it out to you it takes about a month that's between the price and the turnaround time and the fact they only have to buy one pretty great it's incredible because I remember it was like I want to say like six months ago I was looking to give a gift to my significant other and I was like I want to print her a vinyl of me like you know saying how much I love her whatever like it was it was being like an original idea that came out of nowhere and then put the vinyl on or whatever and that's super cool how do you look it up and it cost like thousands of dollars you need to print 500 of these scale yeah the cost of you know 40 bucks a record so get 499 other significant others that you feel you could give this record to and then we can talk like that and there are there are a couple of crowdfunding efforts I think that I've seen that are kind of these small batch vinyl record pressings things like that but nothing has shipped yet so I don't there's not really that market hasn't really emerged yet so I don't know if any of that's any good so this company is doing it they seem to really enjoy it vinyl if I but I know that we can't use official tracks from artists that we don't have permission from in vinyl if I but we can for our hashtags a day which is why I figured we would have some fun with this and you'll really like this to your music Guy TV album and we want you to make the best twenty minute mix that you can think of look what's the what's the mix that you're gonna put on this record and who would you give it - as a gift like which artists or which artist which songs like whatever you want and then who would you give it to as a gift hmm let's just say just give me your a side what's your a side like three songs because it's ten minutes for each side okay I don't want to set the world on fire by Ink Spots great all out yeah probably tomorrow comes today by Gorillaz and by the way you're putting me on the spot for them I know I really am come up with these are good choices those great choices thank you and I'm just a Black Betty that I'll back buddy all right there you go that's I got that last one I wouldn't fully subscribe to the guy okay uh I think I would go with have you ever heard of postmodern jukebox where they read they do covers of like it's sort of like the new version of Richard cheese because he doesn't tour anymore or make records cuz he can't sing poor guy um but they do covers of like modern songs and jazz and like nineteen joint it's great really good so I I maybe pick um I really like the fancy cover on postmodern jukebox there's like a slow jack it's like a quick jazz cover almost like a like a Charleston or like a jitterbug it's great and then I think I'd with that I think I'd go with oh man I think I'd go with the Turks theme from Final Fantasy seven so it's a little very jazzy I suddenly went very jazzy and weird and then I think I would pick a new Fang by them crooked vultures okay yeah any of that hipster crap it's not a hipster it's just all that stuff is it like on vinyl - that's I know that all of my songs are like obviously Xboxes on vinyl anyway alright cool that's absolutely album okay tell us what you would do tell me about this look I I didn't know people still used chatroulette it's okay if you don't know what chatroulette it is you basically hop on chat or a lot and it randomly hooks you up with someone who's someone else's webcam and you either talk to each other or you troll them or you bad other things but but it's it's just kind of this fun weird site well random people a lucky few people about 20 P we're able to switch and they were suddenly viewing a first-person view of like basically a live-action video game and they got to control the video game by telling the player what to do so you're sounds on the screen oh my god actually is somebody actually with a live webcam with their hand that's the guy's real hands and then the graphics are on screen and the people watching would tell him okay pick up the gun or open that box or run or jump over this thing every single command and he would listen and we're so far yeah he would he would respond to pick stuff up and there was there was a small like pathway in which he had to go and like there was a boss battle and there were zombies all around that he had to fight so it was really cool and everyone that got to play and had a really good time they all it the way they cut the video they showed that people had different reactions and different suggestions to what to do but it was fantastic this blew up like last week and that we have some details about how it was done and basically it was a room full of really talented people there was a voice-over artist there's obviously this guy who's wearing a camera on his head and he's all dressed in this outfit there was a graphics artist guy there's just like a few days and then of course there's tons of people dressed as zombies there's also people that had to do the makeup for the zombie there's people that set decorated it they own this house they're a production studio that owns this house there's a big hole behind the scenes video of this but it was a huge group of people they're very proud of it it was huge on reddit good be and people have asked them oh you know will you do this again and they said we'd love to we'd love to do it again and there's no plans to do it again but they they said they'd love to do it obviously it ends the the video ends with this with one guy going to it says proceed to next level so but that's the way it ends leaving it open but ya know it's really great actually at the end of the video I think they show a shot of the there they are big team the guy wearing the Batman oh there's the guy the guy in the middle so yeah big ol team there's a voice actor Wow I didn't realize there were that many people working on it that's incredible so it's it's just a bunch of creative people getting together to create something creative without really real intent but maybe they'll get some money to do the next one maybe Call of Duty will be like hey we want to sponsor like some kind of mark so anyway that was from realm pictures it was a British filmmaking company but way to go guys yeah that was amazingly creative it makes me want to use chatroulette and then I realize they're not doing any more and now I just won't ever so unless they ever do that again don't go into that dark dark no no I don't want to I can I tell you about this robot it's gonna make you pancakes probably yeah I mean everybody loves it already so there's a European project that I think we've alluded to something very similar about the robots watching YouTube videos to learn how to do stuff so this is called Robo howl and they use the actual text in wikiHow to teach robots to understand what to do when you tell it like I want pancakes oh cool so if you say make me pancakes - any a person they sort of can figure out like okay well I need to get the batter I have to get a spatula I gotta use the pancake the griddle I got to do all this stuff well the robot reads a wiki how and then over time it sort of learns by figure it sort of figures out how what steps it needs to take to make pancakes so when somebody says make me pancakes it doesn't need to be fully programmed because it's learned this stuff cool this is pretty pretty awesome this is a pr2 robot we've seen these used for a variety of different things that that we've had on the show before but this might be one of my favorites because I love pancakes they are the best so there are not only learning from wikiHow which is pretty cool they are also doing things like having a person wear gloves to track their motion and VR and perform a task and then giving that information of the robot so they can learn how the person would do it which is pretty cool and then once it completes something successfully or has a set of instructions that it sort of figured out they actually are uploading that those successful instructions to an online database for other robots to like be able to get and learn from Wow which is pretty amazing it hasn't made a pan cake yet though it's still it's still figuring itself out so it's this is these are all like the testing that they're kind of doing on this and they're talking it's like kind of talking its way through it like it talks about like all the different things it needs to do so it's like yeah I couldn't reach object now I'm gonna try different pose but it's it's figuring it that's learning yeah so it's figuring it out which is pretty amazing it's not just like okay I'm gonna program a robot to do the exact steps and if anything is off in any way like oh well then the robot can't do it it's like no no this robot recognizes like this if I'm looking at it based on the wikiHow like that's pancake that's the pancake batter that I understand I need to use that to do this and then I need the spatula to do this like so it and then it says oh there's the spatula I have to move to get the spatula and pick it up so it's pretty interesting stuff that's happening and I just I find that stuff's really cool and makes me feel like one day baby I could have my own Rosie the robot so I'm saying it's it still didn't make a pancake I'm working on it though it's trying but it's not a pancake making robot if it's not making pancakes let's work it's trying it's bad it's gonna be a pancake making robot listen weird little mouth robot thing I appreciate the effort but make a pancake and then we can talk and we can and then we can discuss yeah come on the show and make us pancakes is what we're telling you yeah but actually make a pancake well even let use the commissary at CBS well let you use the huge grill there you can just make it's not just Mary he is kind of a cranky guy yeah I feel a little cranky today he was a little mad so I'm gonna tell you something he's like no sorry what was the right thing to order he's like pancakes nothing you say I'm sorry I don't anything today I want to make pancakes yeah that's might be - you gotta have a robot make us pancakes so yeah that's uh it's sort of like what do you teach a robot how to learn it's like teaching a kid how to learn somebody got a step-by-step you say okay first you need this thing is so that's how they're doing it pretty cool stuff yeah okay not officially flipping tons of tens of pancakes but still working on Timmy what one pancake absolutely we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back it's new releases Tuesdays we're gonna talk about what's out and emptying our wallets but until we come back don't click away it's tomorrow daily welcome back to the show we've returned it's Tuesday this is a good Tuesday it's a pretty interesting and good Tuesday so there's a lot of fun stuff coming out that next week it's like the avalanche begins of great games but for now there's some good stuff this week too so let's talk about new releases yeah I was I was thinking it was next next Tuesday is yours like avalanche it's like Mad Max Metal Gear yeah it's at the beginning okay so then what is this week all right so this week there's a couple good things no movies I wouldn't looked at like what the release slate was for like theatrical there's nothing that interested me it's like two movies I'm like go see straight and so uh call of duty black ops 3 beta launches tomorrow oh yeah or is it today today on what's on PC not tomorrow on PC and Xbox one PlayStation 4 got a head start they started a week ago but but now it's Tuesday where's everyone says 26th so that's what I saw I was 26 okay so drops drops Wednesday and man people are really excited as they always are about call duty but but I will say Call of Duty recently in recent years has seen my slight slump in terms of general overall enjoyment of the series like most of my friends who are really into called duty have been like I played it for a couple weeks and I stopped but when black ops 2 came out people were obsessed like and it feels like this is gonna be a good return to form right there's some really good features in this one people really excited well it's hard for this team and see this is me going to the defense these millionaires that make the same game over and over again it's hard to read like reinvent the wheel right and and what's what's worked about Call of Duty has been just the addictive nature and so they have they're like well I guess we got to throw something extra and they're robots right if it ain't broke don't fix it but then how do you keep it fresh every year so this year it seems like they're actually there's some really good features that people are really excited about gonna keep it fresh I don't need that much robot stuff like I want I'll buy a sci-fi game I don't want my Call of Duty fair enough ok I was excited about recore that's the that's the sort of robot game that I am but again I buy every single one of these and I hate that I do that yeah I know it's like an addiction like I know I'm only to play it for like two weeks and that's like I go buy it anyway and then I play it and I love like really into it and then I'm just like oh yeah okay that was fun me alone Call of Duty I well I got to stop buying you if you want to go baby if you want take it back and go retro Mega Man Legacy Collection comes out this week a lot of people obsessed with Mega Man loved Megaman wish there was more Megaman but right now Legacy Collection is out you can get this on PlayStation 4 Xbox one or PC it is the first six Mega Man games plus other stuff they're promising a bunch of extras and things like that but Capcom is really gonna gone all out on this I I am impressed with the fact that they're releasing all this together there I can't tell you how many people I know that are like obsessed with Megaman so I am very excited for those people I was never a Megaman kid like I don't know why you didn't haven't picked it up yet you love platformers I do but I was never good because it's all six the first six like and then it's like okay well I'll just play them all out I don't like super difficult platformers so it's not really much I think I played the first Megaman in the third and main three and that was pretty much it like I like Kirby's Dreamland I'm oh that's like like super lame over-the-top like got super like I'm like no no I'm a rock so I can't it's not like him I'm adorable kirby Mars yeah alright so hipster hipster gamer Ashley has to tell you about run both it comes out this week on Wii U I'm actually really excited about this game because I played it a little bit at e3 and it was a blast you can play up to nine people it's really it's like hard and easy like so anybody can pick it up but if you get a lot of people together who are really good at it it becomes very difficult it's like a racing game so you have all of these different colors so your character is a specific color and you are racing to the end of a stage and there's like platforming stuff but the stage keeps moving and you have to keep everybody from winning like you like ball fighting each other while you're racing to the end it's really really fun and it's based like an Action Party game and there's different modes it's not just the the race people have no idea what this game is about even based on your description it's still the most accurate I know it's it's one of those games or when you play it you get it like you're like oh I totally got this I know what this is but I love the art style it's very like 60s sort of but ok that's game play okay so it's like Smash Brothers but the stage is moving yeah kind of yeah I mean they do that in Smash Brothers as well but it's like it's more of a linear like it's not like a three dimensional space like you're jumping on the platforms that are flying from behind you and stuff it's a so there's some co-op so it's very strange and but delightful to play like really delightful you can put like a side you can play with up to nine people a great party game and I think it's like 15 bucks so if you have a Wii U it's a good it's a good pull for a party so that's what comes out this week as we said next week the the these first snowball of the giant avalanche of ridiculously good holiday games starts yes so because it's like Metal Gear it's on and then I go into hibernation till fallout yeah pretty much and then kale will literally fly way into the ether and we're seeing the nice knowing you guys I am I've already talked to my parents they got my affairs in order so did you get your will here last yeah Testament not it's like so long guys yeah just a thanks for all the fish alright very last saying today is user feedbacks we're gonna talk about your your TD Yan in part 2 part 2 so let's let's hit it okay these are the last two emails are gonna read about this but as we mentioned yesterday we had an avalanche of user feedback about James Cameron saying that virtual reality was Yan Yan Dustin wrote in to us he emailed us and he said I do kind of see where James Cameron is coming from right now VR AR is new technology and completely uncharted waters like when we first started with video games I think the best way to convince him will be a Hugh that it will be a huge money-making medium is to run a short demo video of all the potential ways people can use VR from video games to simulations the possibilities for VR and AR are really only limited by imagination and do not have creative people like James Cameron on board would be a huge setback bottom line mr. Cameron VR AR is the new video game industry which now rivals the movie industry and revenue and early adopters of the industry while they might not make up as as much up front will really benefit when the technology starts to roll in millions of dollars carpe diem Mr Cameron carpe diem he's you're very enthusiastic for James Cameron and get on board he wants to Chi wants him to reconsider yeah reconsider your thoughts here and then James wrote in not James Cameron but another james wrote in james we're gonna call him james a because we have james see james cameron that's it alright so james a wrote and said perhaps james cameron is simply jaded in regards to vr to help him appreciate VRS potential let's trap him inside of the Avatar world keeping him busy preparing the sequel meanwhile VR will have time to grow into its potential or at least deep enough into it for Cameron to see it and appreciate it it is a win-win for all involved perhaps Cameron could take a parsec or two and give a few pointers on how to improve VR before we track them in the average our world I like that just taken prisoner and never sorry isn't that a measure of distance and it's nothing everybody just is like it's on the cusp and you give it some time mister people are saying that you're judging it too early Mr Cameron Cameron yeah Cameron E um all right so it's time for our grant last these use your feedback which is always our front Agra for the day so this comes from James we will call him James B this is going on there are a lot of James involved in the today's show I'm sorry I'm so sorry I didn't realize it until like we got into user feedback and I'm like we're talking about James Cameron there's a user feedback named James and we have a photographer don't listen don't we have a producer a producer James on today producer James producer James yep oh it's weird I can't even hear so many he's James Dean that's his catchphrase by the way that's right so James we'll call him James B wrote in and said fun at the Illinois State Fair these pictures are of the amateur art show the metal backpack by Jessica Hatfield I think is perfect allegory to going back to school because it's made of metal as heavy it's depressing then something special just for Cale gossamer threads by Timothy Carter and these it this is like a little like wire he used wiring needs to make it look like it doesn't matter a metal spider is even scarier than a regular spider because it could come to life and you couldn't kill it with a book can step on a metal spider oh it would give you tetanus why okay I get that spider webs are beautiful but spiders are not beautiful some writers are really pretty pretty is the wrong word I think you can say impressive but I'm still gonna say you're right some spiders are very impressive looking I think they're beautiful spiders if you're watching I think you're beautiful call me alright guys if you want to send in your phone tog Rafi you can you can email us tomorrow at cnet.com send us story ideas or if you're sending in photog Rafi tell us a little story give us permission and tell us what device you use take picture if you want to check us out on social media or tomorrow daily on a couple of the major social media sites like Facebook and Twitter but you know it's mostly just the show so if you're watching the show come find us instead cuz we're really fun I'm at Ashley's together on Twitter and kale I'd kill anonymous is that kill anonymous is pretty straightforward and of course if you want to send somebody to the show you want to share because sharing is caring yeah James if you want to share it with somebody all you Jameses James James's James's is if you're a James and you want to share the show send them to tomorrow daily comm if you're not a James tomorrow daily comm also equally good that's it for the show today we'll be back tomorrow with a weird wonderful docket of science facts science fiction geek pop culture and gaming all wrapped up in a nice little bit of cellophane for you to enjoy and carry around with you in your pocket but it's all that be good humans we'll see you guys next time you