The VR/AR Showdown: Assessing Tech Giants' Innovations

This chapter delves into the competition between major tech giants in the virtual and augmented reality space, highlighting innovations from companies like Apple and Google's history with Google Glass. The discussion raises critical questions about the practicality of these technologies and their potential to replace conventional computing methods.

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0:00 Sacks' shining moment

2:34 Bestie Guestie Ryan Petersen joins to break down the supply chain situation: core issues, solutions, things to look out for

45:49 $FB's major pullback: causes, headwinds, and why going all-in on the Metaverse might have been a "frothy market mistake"

55:28 Breaking down the competition in the "XR Wars": Meta, Apple, Microsoft and Google; why a phone might have been a better $10B/year bet for Facebook, Google's strategic brilliance

1:09:14 Spotify's Joe Rogan situation: positions, speech rights, division amongst free speech

1:23:08 Reflection on Baby Boomers' transition from radically free speech and anti-government to authoritarian, misinformation changing over time, using science to discredit science

1:30:10 Xi Jinping and Putin are deepening their relationship: what does this mean for the world, and how should the US strategically respond?

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