Nov 3rd 2022
Tech News Weekly 259
The Mastodon in the Room
Hosted by
Jason Howell,
Mikah Sargent
Twitter, VR in Your Car, PS VR2
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests:
Russell Brandom,
Janko Roettgers
- Elon Musk is dominating the news space with his acquisition of Twitter last week. Russell Brandom from The Verge joins the show to discuss what Elon has done with the company since then.
- Janko Roettgers from Protocol comes back to the show to talk about Holoride and how it seeks to let you use virtual reality in your car.
- Jason talks about the arrival of PlayStations' VR2 headset on February 22nd.
- Finally, Mikah talks about the decentralized social network Mastodon and the sudden surge of its userbase since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.
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Links
- Why Elon Musk is so desperate for Twitter to make money
- Holoride wants you to use VR in your car
- PS VR2 arrives on February 22nd and it costs a whopping $550
- Sony says 'PS VR games are not compatible with PS VR2'
- Decentralized social network Mastodon grows to 655K users in wake of Elon Musk's Twitter takeoverDecentralized social network Ma