Cory’s Road-Trip conversations, the return of the fanny pack and Adam Neumann. AI Art and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and more.
Show Notes & Bookmarks
- 4:21 – Why, when we have 4K, 60FPS gaming, is the metaverse largely a clunky, slow, pixelated experience?
- 4:57 – Meta Announces something metaverse related in Spain and France (Horizon Worlds)
- 5:37 – Google Glass launched in 2013, and we are still waiting for a decent AR, headset style device to go mainstream.
- 6:31 – Bum Bags aka ‘Fanny Packs’ now called waist bags are back. Fanny has different meanings around the world.
- 9:35 – EU has passed laws that force all phone chargers should be common, so Apple will have to change their cables. “All new devices on market in the EU will have to include a USB-C charging port by fall 2024. The new rules aim to reduce electronic waste.”
- 9:55 – Music Easter Egg…
- 10:24 – Cory has been watching ‘Super pumped, the Battle for Uber‘
- 11:09 – Dave has been watching ‘WeCrashed‘ about WeWork
- 11:30 – Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has bet $350 million into Adam Neumann’s old rental idea called FLOW
- 16:58 – We talked about the Pros and Cons of being a Digital Nomad.
- 18:25 – There are other options when it comes to Digital Nomad accommodation choices including Blueground.
- 20:26 – There are thousands of fake Binance profiles on Linkedin.
- 21:51 – How to use Linkedin
- 26:59 – Check out our YouTube Channel for visual versions of the pod.. Music Easter Egg 2
- 27:27 – The wonderful world of AI ART.
- 28:57 – The cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling has been challenging the Craiyon AI to draw some weird and wonderful things.
- 29:45 – I asked the Midjourney AI to draw the interior of a New York Penthouse, with a view over central park on a sunny day…
- 31:57 – Three Art AIs to check out… Midjourney, Craiyon and Wombo (Dream App)
- 36:46 – Will the ‘Infinite Monkey Theorem‘ come to see a Shakespeare sonnet written by an AI?
- 39:58 – Yuga Labs ‘Otherside’ Metaverse data requirements??
- 41:56 – Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is only 3 years old. I said it was 9, but it came out in 2018.
- 45:54 – The Gray Man is a very watchable, fun, entertaining action movie…
