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hey on Wednesday March 22nd I have more energy this morning than I did yesterday it's time for Dodger I liked your injury from yesterday it was more genuine like hey I do i do already sensual on the 359 episode 198 with Ben Fox Rubin Roger Cheng and Joanie salesmen hello everyone 198 wow we're so close so close send in your punch Roger videos yes punch Roger hashtag punch Raj we need punch Roger videos we hear that we're gonna get some right all right there in process possibly yeah yeah we don't know there have been threats we but before that we got to talk about stuff yes we've got we've got lots of stuff to talk about we've got android oh we've got the latest version of google's mobile operating system it's some details it's not out yet you just deserve T's what its gonna look like we're gonna be a little bit more information on the developer conference later this month but we got a first look at what it looks like well we'll ask whether time it fits even you know relevant yeah we're gonna be talking about uber CEO sticking around this is bliss from Arianna Huffington one of the board members confirmed yesterday he's uncle Travis isn't going anywhere nope yeah and lastly Jones back to talk about South by and VR and music the the latest twist list been to VR is maybe this is what people will get interested in I don't make sense to me talking sense not a good idea of living in a music video as opposed to watching one so I'm down we'll see as always if you have any questions leave them in the comments section Brian will pick out the best and we will answer them in three minutes and 59 seconds I'm already tallying all the great Oh name suggestions for Android Oh keep them coming guys all right here we go in three two welcome to the 359 when we talk about the top tech news of the day and I'll crap want to throw in I'm Roger Cheng I'm Ben Fox Rubin & I'm Joanie salzman get ready for android oh google tease a few details of the next version of this mobile operating system promising perks like battery life longer battery life and picture and picture for phones and tablets all cool stuff aside but what I really want to know is what do you think o stands for been Joan oh god that's it that's a pretty good guys I guess yeah I I don't think it's gonna be Oreo I know it's always supposed to be like a candy or a sweet or whatever oreo is a trademark name like why would it be Oreo that's true yeah I would now that would be my vote I'd like just mostly because I'm a hankering for cookies right now right well you could go without meal cookie if you wanted what if I flipped the script and made it something healthy like wow orange I don't know what's how it's sweet organic quinoa we're gonna k I can only imagine working with bring out I was like the android version of organic quinoa but literally little rounds okay hold it I'm pretty interested in these features can we bring it back to the future talk about the tech ok so the picture-in-picture stuff sounds really great especially for phablets because you know tablets not as sexy or as interesting as they used to be but if you've got a bigger phone like this probably wouldn't work for you know a smaller phone but for my phone or for like a larger phone this could be really help dad look at the g6 upcoming Galaxy S aight i mean they're both expected to have very large displays larger displays and picture and picture would be perfect for stuff like and even with small phones if you're watching a video on a commercial comes up and you don't want you want to check your email while you're watching a TV show yeah that way you can let that 30 seconds go by while doing something else yeah makes a lot of sense to me now you made interesting point right because of the fragmentation of Android you not a lot of people are can get the latest version of Android like even at this point right nougat is right now the latest version that's out there and I think it's only two two-point-eight percent of Android users are on nougat already heard a number yeah so how many people are actually gonna use oh right who really knows but I guess as the years go on people will continue to use it and I like some of these features so hopefully the adoption will increase because those features are better yeah look as always the only way to guarantee you'll get the latest version of Android is to buy a pixel phone or on the old Nexus phones because that gives you sort of that kind of direct line to google and those updates mmm all right next up uber CEO Travis kalmyk he is here to stay a board member uber board member Arianna Huffington confirmed that he's sticking around despite dealing with numerous controversies of the last few months is this a smart move now know that I mean on the one side people say that he's a founder right yes I mean founder led companies that's that means a lot to a company that's why there are all these protections in facebook to make sure that my that Mark Zuckerberg is never ever ever ever ever going to lose any any any any control over um but on the downside i mean travis has a lot of stink on him yeah if it was a public company I feel like he would have been gone already but it's not so yeah yeah so all right lastly that music and VR was one of the key themes at South by Southwest Joan what did you see the show that really wowed you there are a lot of fun experimentations letting people have a little interactivity with music music has been a common thread in VR since it's early days there's you know like live 30 to 60 degree concert sure yeah um and music is a universal language you know you don't any someone in China can understand a song just as easily someone in you know South that's the point I like text because music videos don't really require like storytelling but yeah like an actual applause so that's actually a lot easier more accessible for people it can be a little bit more fuzzy cloudy you don't have to tell a story that grips people you just have to have really cool images and it allows for experimentation which is great and so some of the cool things that I got to try were all I mean it was really fun to play a rock band style game in VR where you have two drumsticks and you're hitting like these gummy bears that are coming at you with music it was really fun it was did you actually were like were you good at it when you were yeah I think I was pretty good that's like some streaks once you get I mean I only did it like two times three times by the third um I had some pretty epic streaks going all right and it's fun it's fun and there was another one where you to create there some objects in a room and you throw these objects into a fountain and that each object is associated with a sound and that creates a melody at the end of the experience so I mean one of the best tests of interaction and experiences if you want to do it again and I wanted to do it again once I oh there you go I mean that hopefully answers the core dilemma of VR is not enough content right all right last all right no that's it actually for more of these stories check us out see that on Roger Cheng I'm Ben Fox Rubin I'm Joanie salzman thanks for listening all right let's start going down the line of own aims oh boy on a bit of a sloppy show today but that's okay yeah it's all my fault as usual first and foremost you brought up the Oreo trademark and Sony in the chat pointed out that so was KitKat yeah that's true yeah an i was trying to remember which like I remember there was one brand that was used but we have the smartest viewers we do thank you very much for that but otherwise we've got orange soda orange julius Julius would be awesome Omega Omega mega oh la la wait wait what I really like mega treat is that I don't know it just sounds I mean I'd sound their break in the whole like food mole de all right exit olive oval oh oh hashtag punch Roger oh wait that something else oh god is the thing oh my Apple no that would never have a oatmeal yo mele origins in that one yeah uh orangutang mmm I like this one Oh pies uh yeah we got a good list going on oh and also jelly bean they pointed out jelly bean was also technically trademark rights jelly beans the trademark isn't it there's a compaq there's a brand jelly bean so so i think it was jelly belly whatever is it jelly belly jelly right it is jelly belly yeah okay either way it is true about Kit Kat though and i feel like the table and i'm sure what who makes what is this gonna miss Coe yeah I'm sure Nabisco would be thrilled free i have that free advertising I imagine little android guy made of Oreo I think that makes probably the most sense I mean it's like a short punchy name so Android Oreo if it were that makes a lot more sense than Android olive oh good associates max yeah max everybody android obesity full of oh you've eaten Android a through m what I'm going with 20 now you're definitely yeah android obesity yeah that's better works i'm down to though that takes the cake yeah but I'm bum thank you good night everybody thanks I want to hear more about this VR yeah yeah I'm looked really cool we had the kind of skin that but yeah it was super fun um yeah so I there was this game it's called playthings so if you want to try that out if you have room skill VR you can download play things on stream and there's a secret rhythm game mode that you can use I don't know how secret it is defined but it's kind of like a proto version of what they were showing at South by but it's like um you know in keeping with Oreos and junk food it will play a song and um like towards you will be these like gummy bears or cheese burgers or hotdogs or something and they are like three like visually there at three different levels and you have drumsticks in your hand and so they come on the beat and so you have to like go like this yeah um that's really fun I mean it's the same kind of fun that like you and it immediately when i first read that part because of the food theme i thought when you said drum sticks like bike yeah in general trinket yeah actually suggests that jar is kind of cool he's hungry today right yeah i know that was really cool to when we get to create music is a cool idea and then um i like the the first one we looked at with the tilt brush because you know I've experimented with that tilt brush a little bit with our girlfriends rhett and Link on good mythical right so tilt brush people don't know is a google program for VR that it's basically like a VR sculpture painting thing where you hold controllers and you can paint in the air with different brushes and uh it's analogous to Microsoft's paint from back in the day like it yeah it's a one act like everyone has tried when they tried they are like it's that sort of like the good demo app when you go in every one they really live with oculus they always want you to use tilt brush there's a sort of example what VR can do and so what toast which has been doing is they've been adding some tools like audio reactive brushes that will like pulse I'm on a beat and then they've added a timeline feature so that you can create images three-dimensional 360-degree around you images in tilt brush and then have them like storyboard based like not story but you're like traveling on like a linear path at a certain speed and so like it feels like you're driving so in this video we were like in a car with this like trippy neon psychedelic creature where whose head would like switch to like a horse head and then like a pixie head and then a skull with a tongue sing yeah it's set I mean that makes it sound like I'm nightmare but it was really cool like is this horrifying or photos really but it's also a really good song so um yeah and then like on we have up on the screen that there's another one where you get to like spray like these bubbly sparkly kittens in the air to a really cool song that one's called chocolate by tired and these are weird yeah but that's a thing like they can be weird cuz music videos can be like totally bizarre this is because nobody does psychotropic drugs when they listen to music no that's never happened before the thing that I like about this concept in general is and you mentioned this in your story is is that music videos have a lot going for them related to VR like they're short yep they're emotional they don't need a narrative and as you also said in the podcast like there's also like universal language like yeah you know they can be used broadly so to me this sounds like could make a lot of sense as far as getting a lot of people to at least try VAR like they don't have to be like VR enthusiasts but you at least like experience a music video once with it maybe you're more likely to try VR again and another yeah but the point that you ended with the idea that you'd want to try some of the stuff again that's I think the key thing right people right now they are still kind of gimmicky these kind of 360 videos or whatever like you tried it's kind of cool and you like put never think about it again but there was like a continuous stream of like it was your source of music like a YouTube has become like yeah that could be a thing but we are thing with video games like you know it's you could play a video game for like well over an hour yeah but with VR music like you could just you know listen to something for five minutes and like that's just an interesting experience if you go on with you definitely less of commitment and I feel like it's there's a broader audience with music gaming kind of hit sixer I mean there are hardcore gamers will buy these VR sets that's fine but they're looking for more than that right yeah music is definitely more of a populist appeal yeah nobility and opening the door for a lot of other things like Assad who's hoping for sex in VR well that's already yeah yeah I mean sure that dykes we don't need a way yeah that was the first thing you should have mentioned that a lot always a dimension not a lot Sooners the BR porn is definitely in a way to get Weibo he talks about that like a year ago though so if way to avoid a pun saying this yeah this is a way for getting people to start using VR for sure for them to get into it I'm gonna say something worse than I avoided that and we have officially embarrassed our listener Assad yes right though he's right and Antoine is griping about us being an unprofessional show this is the first time you're watching a show Anton come on there come back again no polish on the show come back again will continue to be if you want the Polish brush and get the podcast that I spend hours editing yeah right mostly editing me so yeah I like what you did today we're like almost on episode 200 and you're like and last stop no way you can tell I'm sorry to mail it all in right at least you got like the intra right this time I was so funny every time you do the intro it's wrong it's it's terrible at this point I look I'm the mental hiccup in my head like when I do the intro something stops in my brain is I got you screwed up now wondrously today how long somebody unlearn something so with such a great effect so sorry Antoine we couldn't resist picking on you enjoy your day off come back come back again speaking of unprofessionalism yeah before we wrap it up we got to make one more plug we want your videos we want you to punch Roger Cheng in the face hashtag pun i I'm so disappointed that i haven't seen Christian come back like I know he's me know he's left us now that he's created this I know he's really strong comeback and he's walked away it's pretty smart actually now he's impact on all of our lives he's a hungry 59 myth now I almost wish he doesn't come back because it would it would kind of diminish the whole experience to be like hey I'm bad guys loose punch Roger my god it showed up by it's too late it's cool a Christian showed up I just invite him to come on the show and do it live it to like a punching yeah okay yeah do a picture of me so anyways if you haven't been following along we have a habitual comment or name Christian who is started the hashtag punch I want to punch Roger Cheng in the face so we decided to celebrate this it's our mantra now we want you to go into the description of this video get the link download the picture of Roger and then show us how you would punch Roger in the face make an animation print it out put it on a punching bag and even however and seriously that picture of me is totally punchable it's yes I wanted I just add that picture of me not a famine and I me yeah I like my face to like my face so anyways make a video simonton we have a deadline now my getting close yes it's friday my email is in the description as well send us the videos are gonna feature them on the 200th episode is the big celebration yeah and just one day one day monday is a big episode 200 it's really not anything that special swedes just something on this long no i don't 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