Virtual reality

Tetris Effect should be on there.

But that's a VR game in my mind.

I played it in VR.

Yeah.

You've not played it?

That brings up, um...

Sorry, just looking at Jedi brings me to Tetris Effect, which, uh, I, I wanted to touch on that real fast.

Um, PSVR, you said that it's best in PSVR.

Yes, there's plenty of other things, but first things first, the Steam Frame price and release dates have been confirmed, and it comes with a game.

Valve has unveiled pricing for its new VR headset, and like the Steam Machine, it's bound to be controversial.

Ooh.

Uh, the Steam Frame headset will cost, uh, will start at $1,059 for the 256 gigabyte model, and rise to $1,299 for the terabyte version, uh, including controllers.

For that sum, you also get a rebuilt version of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's 2020 PC VR game that runs entirely on the headset.

The Steam Frame launched without, uh, the delay of the Steam Machine, but Valve will still have a rather ar- erroneous reservation oper- uh, ordering system.

First, sign up for the model you'd like to buy no- between now and September 17th at 10:00 AM, uh, Pacific.

And I feel like we have it somehow.

A bad little world is waiting inside.

Life is better in VR.

No bad weather, no rusty car.

Build a mansion, fly to Mars.

Dance on the moon beneath digital stars.

But life is better in VR.

So what brought this up is yesterday we got pricing and details of Valve's new VR headset.

Mm.

But this one was giving...

Deadass, give me the VR goggles.

Deadass, deadass, put me in.

Deadass, y'all didn't even

Now, the news broke via the Seattle-based developer's LinkedIn page where they said their farewells and how they're winding down active development.

They said, Now, it was just under two months ago that we were celebrating the great reviews scores for Moss the Forgotten Relic, a console remake of the two original VR games.

The studio released its debut VR puzzler Moss in 2018. and followed up with Book 2 in 2022.

Now, they also say, Working together over all these years has been an honor.

Bringing surprise and delight to those who played our games has been a privilege.

watching ColdFusion TV.

The Vision Pro isn't a traditional VR headset or AR headset.

It's actually both and can fluidly move between the two states.

You can use your fingers, eyes and voice for basic tasks, a keyboard and mouse for productivity or a controller for gaming.

I understand, but this episode is purely an analysis on the insane technical achievements, not social commentary.

Let's take a look at what makes this product so different.

If those who have tried the device are right, this is the first headset to my knowledge that excels both in AR and VR at a high level.

At its core, this is its unique selling point.

He's a teacher.

He is the first person to successfully use animation in a courtroom trial and the first person to have VR admitted in a criminal trial.

Ken, it's great to have you here.

Welcome.

So let's take a look.

All right, Ken, that's really fascinating.

I mean, you're an innovator and a creator Now, what I really have trouble imagining is convincing a judge to put on the goggles that are the VR headset.

How did you go about making those arguments to convince the people in the courtroom who are going to need to see this VR, what this technology is? Did you have to educate them and convince them that this is something that should get into evidence?

Maybe consumers are where the money's at.

The VR market targeted consumers first, and now we're using them in industry.

But on the AR side, I don't know.

I don't know who's gonna win, what's gonna happen, but I'm frantically trying to keep my arms around all these devices that spin up and go away, and it's a chore.

That's what I was kind of asking.

If those categories or buckets make sense to you and if you'd add any other ones, but maybe it's, I don't know if it fits neatly into any of those, but yeah, what are any other major use cases that you kind of feel like you're seeing on the landscape?

Well, there's training, of course, right? Which is, you know, we're going to train them in AR on the shop floor or in the training room and VR.

Obviously, we're not going to do that on the shop floor, but there's kind of training workers.

The ideas were always, like, high-tech ideas.

We were like, VR became very hot at some point, AR, so we were like, how do we build a-- what can we build in AR? How- what can we build in, in VR? And yeah, one day, this is like two years before we started the company, Max writes a long message or a, a stream of messages there talking about this wholesale business and how, how outside of technology this wholesale is, and trade shows, and sales reps, and like...

Max was always an entrepreneur, and on the side of working at tech companies, he was always starting businesses, and he had this business selling umbrellas.

So he imported these umbrellas from New Zealand.