Coder Radio
589: Blame the Tools using the Tools
Wed, 02 Oct
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Our thoughts on big tech firing up old nuclear reactors to satisfy the AI growth plans, Sam's big week, and debate if Meta just had their iPhone moment.
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This is Coda Radio, episode 589, recorded on October 1st, 2024. Well, hey, friend. Welcome back to Jupiter Broadcasting's weekly talk show. Taking a pragmatic look at the art, the business, and all of the software development stuff out there. I don't know, probably the whole world of technology, you might say. I could probably say that. My name is Chris, and, well, that doesn't really matter.
What matters is our host. He survived. Mr. Dominic. Hello, Mike. You made it. I made it. Everything okay over there? Like, quite seriously? Like, everything good? Yeah. Yeah, well, we're good. I mean, unfortunately, you know, folks in the area, definitely, there was some... Really sadly, some loss of life and a lot of damage.
I'm glad we took time to prepare. You probably have it down by now, I imagine, for the big storms coming in. Oh yeah, we have a process.
It seems sort of trivial to talk about it, but did you see... That your buddy Zuck is really trying to get your business? Not only did he try, he succeeded. Oh, did he? Did you pre-order a MetaQuest 3S? I sure did, just before the show. Wow, really? Really. So, okay, why? What made you decide the MetaQuest 3S is it again? Because you've tried the Quest 2 or 3, I think?
So yeah, I have it too. Kids play with it. You know what it was? I think, Chris, there's a generational thing here. You and I, I mean, I think we get it, right? Like what it does. But these younger kids, I'm talking like preteens, you know, that like come to my house and all that kind of fun stuff, you know, friends of kids, right? Yeah. they love it.
Like all they do, my stepson, all he and his friends do is play on the meta quest. It's crazy. They play this crazy game. I think it's called Ape Tag or Gorilla Tag. Yes, yes. You know what I'm talking about? Yes. My daughters love that game too.
Right. And he's always going on there and finding new stuff. And then my youngest, my little guy, it's the big hot item all the kids want. It just seems like somehow we're coming to a place where that is the type of game they want to play and the experience they want to have. Well, and when the Apple Vision Pro is $2,500 and the MetaQuest 3S is $299.
Oh, and from a development perspective for platform, there's no denying Quest is the leader, right? And under the hood, it's just Android, and it has great Unity integration and Unreal integration. So… Even if you're making a game or if you're not making a game, it's not hard to develop for. It also can do Android native development in Lay C++, the NDK native development kit.
I think it's the winner, right? It's the Windows to, well, Apple's back because Apple's the other guy, right? And the field is only thinning. Microsoft just killed the HoloLens 2, which is sad, but...
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