March 27, 2024 • 18 mins
Ever wondered what it takes to be a Lego Master, or how a simple plastic brick can outperform gold as an investment? Buckle up for an enchanting behind-the-scenes look at the Brick Alley meet-up in Port Orchard, where we rubbed shoulders with the brightest brick builders, including the champion of Lego Masters season four. Discover the intricate world of competitive Lego building, and delve into the unexpected financial wisdom of stashing away those Lego sets. Plus, we examine the miniature marvels that are Lego minifigures, focusing on the charming evolution of the tiny plastic kids that populate our creations.
Switching from bricks to bytes, get ready to have your mind expanded by Apple's latest venture into augmented reality with the Vision Pro Glasses. We weigh the pros and cons of this hefty investment, breaking down the features and potential use cases like transforming your home office into an AR wonderland or taking on collaborative engineering feats remotely. As Apple leaps beyond the iPhone, we ponder the future of tech innovation and how it continues to shape our world. Join us for a journey through the playful and the practical in this episode full of visionaries and vision.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm your host, matthew Cote.
Today on the podcast we'regoing to talk about some
interesting recent goings-ons inour beautiful state and maybe
even a few things going on inthis amazing round thing we call
home.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello, welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm Matthew Cote, your host,along with co-host Jay.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hi, my name is Jay Salmi, owner of Jay's Technology
Solutions.
Matt, let's start the frivolity.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Frivolity.
So what's been going on?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We had some fun over the weekend.
What did you do?
We got to go to Brick Alley inPort Orchard and meet five Lego
Masters, and one of them wasactually the winner of Lego
Masters season four.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So what's Lego Masters?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It's a whole bunch of teams getting together and
building Lego spur of the moment.
They don't even know whatthey're building until moments
before they have to build it.
They have a certain amount oftime to build it and win that
round, so they have.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
How do they receive the Legos?
Is it like?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
under it's Lego, but they receive it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's all right there.
So it's like they're standingin front of a hidden box or
something.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
No, no they get told a theme, oh, a theme Like, let's
say, one theme was volcanoes.
Okay, right, and all the Legobrick is there for them.
They just have to go and grabit and bring it back to their
table.
And it's teams of two and theybuild an epic design.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And this guy consistently won and he was the
champion.
Is it elimination rounds?
They're elimination rounds, sohis team never lost.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
His team actually won one of the rounds where his
creation is actually forever putinto a video game.
Oh, okay, so it's like a littleRC car, and the one that he
made in real life got digitizedand put into a video game
forever.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh wow, it's actually a choice.
That's cool.
Do you get monies, or is thatthe reward?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
They win money at the end.
Was it $100,000?
You know, split between the two, oh, between three people, two
people, teams money at the end.
Um, was it a hundred?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
thousand dollars.
You know, split between the two, oh, between two, three people,
or two people, two people,teams of two, teams of two, okay
, yeah, so it's him plus one him, christopher and robert.
Yep, so what was?
What are the?
What's their background?
Um?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
you know, I I don't remember everyone's background,
okay, um, I can be wrong, but Ithink chris works at maybe
microsoft, I think, okay, um,don't quote me on that.
Or he did something for themfor a little bit.
I I can be wrong, but I thinkChris works at maybe Microsoft,
I think Okay, don't quote me onthat.
Or he did something for themfor a little bit.
I remember him mentioningsomething about Microsoft, okay,
but he's a business guy and, ohman, he's very charismatic, so
(02:36):
you listen to him talk and youjust listen, listen, he's fun to
listen to.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, okay, yeah, he's got a YouTube channel Duck
Bricks, duck Bricks, yep, ohcool, what is that?
Duck like quack, or just likethey're coming at you and look
out.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, Lego was one of their very first Lego designs
was a wooden duck Of wood.
Yeah, oh, I didn't know thatthat's cool.
All those years ago, back inthe last century, I remember
playing with the logs those arelincoln logs.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh, lincoln's logs, that's not lego.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh, that's different, they link yeah that's to an
extent, yeah, a little notch onthe end what does lego stand for
is an acronym I don't rememberright now, oh okay that's
interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I mean it's got a pretty interesting history, got
a massive history.
Yeah, I mean it's been a bigfollowing, very powerful product
.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It appreciates more than gold.
Oh really yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Hmm, like just the stock itself, no, the actual
product.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I bought some motors and receivers and controllers
that were being retired.
I purchased them right beforebeing retired and, let's see, it
was back in October orsomething like that I sold them
for a 325% profit.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Wow, why'd you sell them Didn't need them, I bought
them strictly for an investment.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh for that reason yeah, I only had them for like
two years.
Wow, why'd you sell them,didn't?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
need them.
I bought them strictly for oh,for that reason, yeah, I only
had them for like two years.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Go, lego Go.
Yeah, you know the Lego guys,the little people, minifigs,
minifigs, yep, have they beenthe same more or less dimensions
ever since, or were they everbigger?
Some are bigger, some are aresmaller, depending on what the
actual character is yeah, I feellike sometimes the they're a
little their, their bodieschange a little bit slightly um
(04:32):
you know, if it's a childminifig, then their legs don't
bend.
Oh, shorter that oh, that'd becute yeah, I don't think I've
seen a child one before.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Oh yeah we have lots of sets at our house and we got
lots of ones with the shorterlaces or a kid or whatever, yeah
, oh, okay, I think I want tobring one next time.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I want to look at it.
Okay, a kid one that doesn'thave bendy legs?
Okay, I don't think I've everseen that.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Okay, I think we'll work on that foundation nation
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(05:20):
to talk about was ais.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
There's there's a lot of AI things going on, and
Apple's taking a little humbleapproach at launching its newest
device.
Oh yes, what is it?
The Vision Pro.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Vision Pro.
Yes, it's similar to a VRheadset.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Okay, describe it to me.
What does it look like?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Imagine a ski mask.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Okay, right, just thicker ski mask, obviously
heavier, you mean like a skimask, like jason, no, no ski
mask like you're going skiing,oh okay, no, down the slopes.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You know a ski mask just right over your eyes.
Oh, the goggles, the goggles,yes, sorry, ski goggles, ski
goggles my apologies.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
All right, yeah, so ski goggles.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
They're thicker, a little bit heavier.
Tons of sensors and cameras onit, okay, and I actually went
and demoed one okay what was the?
Experience like I was concerned, just like with vr for me I get
motion sickness oh yeah,nothing like that.
why no motion sickness ornothing?
They have done such animpeccable job at the refresh
(06:28):
rates and the latency being so,so small, yeah, that when you
were looking through it becauseyou don't see out the vision pro
with a clear glass, you'reseeing an image of what's in
front of you.
Oh, okay, so there's camerasprojecting the image of what's
(06:48):
in front of you.
Yeah, live, live feed right,you know, on the screen that's
inside the, the, the vision pro.
Okay, and um, I couldn't eventell.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You couldn't tell that you were looking at fake,
that I was looking at a video.
It looked like normal, right.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Wow that that I was looking at a video.
It looked like normal, right.
Wow, that's cool and it wasabsolutely amazing.
I never felt motion sick.
I never felt nauseous like Iwould with vr.
That's why I don't have vr,right it.
I can't.
I can't handle that.
You get dizzy.
Yeah, and there's a lot ofpeople out there like that and
while experiencing the visionpro, they have these certain
(07:24):
things that immerse you into avideo or a picture or whatever,
right, right, you know how.
On a computer, you have yourdesktop background, right, yeah,
picture of whatever you want.
Yeah, right, you just throw apicture up there and that's your
desktop background.
In Vision Pro, your desktopbackground can be fully
(07:44):
immersive, and what I mean bythat is one of the backgrounds
that they had.
You show or had you experiencewas in a mountain with a lake.
Okay, you're literally right onthe edge of the lake, like
about ready to step into thewater, uh-huh, right, and it
looked so real I literally feltlike I could touch the water or
(08:08):
the rocks.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So all your sensors were going off.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It was crazy how real it was.
It literally makes 3D movieslook like garbage.
Wow, it was so impressive andas you turn your head, you still
see it.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So what's the primary purpose or function of this
thing?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
it's actually it's actually a wearable computer,
okay, so you can still dofacetime, you can still do zoom,
you can still do word excelemails, surf the internet, all
that.
Yeah, you can actually hook upa keyboard, but they show you
how to use finger gestures andvoice control.
Okay, search for stuff Superintuitive.
(08:46):
Oh, wow, took me less than halfa second to figure it out.
Wow, she actually had theperson that was demoing it for
me.
She had to tell me to slow downso she can get through her
spiel and show me what I'msupposed to be doing.
Oh, yeah, yeah, but it was sointuitive.
You don't really, yeah, becauseyou know you're just you're
slowing.
I was slowing down so she couldshow me more specific things
(09:08):
that weren't necessarily asobvious, right?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
When are they, when are these things coming to be?
You can buy them.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
They've already started?
Oh, okay, yeah, that startedearlier this month, is it them?
They've already started?
Oh, okay, yeah, that startedearlier this month, is it?
How much are they?
Depends on what size of harddrive.
Oh, sure, how much storage youneed, right?
Um, if you get the one terabyteand you need the um glasses you
know they're, if you wearglasses like I do.
Oh, prescription, yeah, you geta prescription lens that gets
(09:38):
put in there.
It's magnetic, so you canchange it out and so you can
actually have other people inyour household use it, just by
changing out the lens.
Oh, okay, and it's magnetic, soit's super quick and easy.
Okay, but for me, if you did theone terabyte and the
prescription you're looking at,a little over four grand, four
grand, but it's an Apple product.
Yeah, sure, their products areexpensive, but their support is
(10:04):
amazing.
Yeah, because you can't I don'tknow of anywhere else you can
buy a computer from and then I'msaying this without a warranty
or anything, right, and go backin three months and saying, hey,
I have this issue and if youtake it to the Apple store, nine
out of ten times they're ableto fix it right on site.
(10:25):
And then they go.
Okay, have a good day.
Okay, have a good day.
Yeah, there's no charge for it,so sometimes that extra expense
is worth it.
Apple's pretty superior.
Yeah, and being a guy thatworks on Windows PCs, I do agree
with that.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, do these things .
I mean, are they for kids oradults?
I mean, what's their primaryclient?
Or who are they for $4,000, whoare they targeting to buy these
things?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I haven't seen or noticed really what their
primary target is.
That I've really have aperception of.
But when you think about it, ifyou have a home office, imagine
being able to work at home andwalk around your entire house
and still work.
Sure, from your computer,because you're wearing it, you
can put all these screens up inAR, augmented reality, basically
(11:27):
in front of you, and then ifyou need to start walking or do
something else, you just startdoing that and everything goes
transparent and you see the realworld around you and you take
care of what you need to andthen when you want to go back to
work, you just go back to workwherever you're at.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I feel like I've heard about Boeing starting to
do stuff like this, right?
Well, you've got the company.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You've got the Microsoft HoloLens that has been
around for a while, right, lotsof companies are using HoloLens
because same style oftechnology.
But the HoloLens is a cleargoggles.
Oh, okay, so there's no camerasand stuff.
It's not fully enclosed.
Okay, so you see everythinglike like my glasses I have on
(12:12):
right now.
Sure, but then the hollow lensprojects.
Information on that clear glasslens.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Instead of being like an augmented reality, right.
So you're seeing it live.
It's on the lens, in front ofyou.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay, so it's like overlapping reality, right.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Okay, same theory, just applied differently.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And I mean I'm just thinking of some of the purposes
.
If you could have engineers inthe office and then technicians
out in the field, you know,walking around saying, hey, this
is what's going on on thisplane or this job, or whatever,
the engineer could like live,you know, talk to them, and
without having to, because Iknow a lot of engineers in the
(12:58):
world they don't, they're not onsite, you know they're.
A lot of engineering is doneremotely.
You know, oh, I've a lot ofengineers in the world.
They're not on site.
A lot of engineering is doneremotely.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Oh, I've dealt with lots of them.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
yes, yeah, so having to have some eyes and ears in
the field like that would bepretty amazing.
Four grand for a company,that's reasonable.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, it's not too bad For a kid no way, no, no,
not really for a kid.
And like, let's say, you dofoundations right, matt, that's
your primary company, that'swhat you do.
Imagine being able tocollaborate with someone in
Germany about a new foundationequipment to hold up the house
or to lift the foundation Right,equipment to hold up the house
(13:38):
or to lift the foundation Right,and you're, you can redesign it
together in real space andvirtual space at the same time,
so you can have a product rightin front of you, person in
Germany, and you say, oh no,let's change this, they'll
change something Visually, youcan see what they changed and go
(13:59):
, that works.
But what if we change thisangle?
Just this much?
Ah, okay, right, and you can.
You can manipulate that sameobject in real time, virtually
right, right in a digital space.
It's actually uh, it's a, it'sa nice thing, it really is.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, that's interesting because the I mean I
know Apple the phone is thesame, the phone is the same, the
phone is the same and nothing'sreally changed.
So coming up with a new productis probably pretty important to
them.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah.
Yeah, the iPhone has stayed thesame concept, but they've
increased the hardware softwaremade it more complicated do more
stuff, because the iPhone 15now will take oh, what's the
term?
they use Basically 3D videos,immersive videos, and you can
view that on the Vision Pro asif you were still there.
(14:59):
Oh, sure, okay, okay.
So they actually showed a videowhen I did the demo of someone
taking a video on an iPhone 15Pro and then I got to watch it
and it was a birthday cake Kidblowing out a cake and
everything, and I felt like I'djust grab a piece and start
eating it.
It was crazy, amazing.
So what are you thinking?
(15:20):
Buy, don't buy, depends on youruse.
Okay, right now I don't have animmediate need, but I do want
one eventually because it'llfree up my desk.
Oh, okay, you know what I do,matt.
It'll free up my desk.
Oh, okay, that's.
You know what I do, matt,especially a lot of the remote
meetings and the remote supportwhere I need to log into
computers and take care of stuff.
(15:41):
Oh sure yeah yeah, being able todo that and not have to be tied
to my desk or tied to my iPador tied to my laptop.
Yeah, and I could just do it asI'm walking around, because
there's so many times when I gotto do updates and scan for
viruses and malware and stuffand I start that scan and then,
if I got nothing else I'mworking on, I'm just sitting
(16:02):
there waiting.
Sure, yeah, well, if I'mwearing the vision pro, I start
all that stuff and I walk around, get myself some water, grab a
bite to eat, and it's there inthe background and when, when I
see it's done, then move on.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
All right.
Well, that is it for today.
So I guess it's by don't buy,buy maybe, buy, maybe, maybe.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Well, for someone like myself, it's by it's just a
matter of when when.
So everyone's got to actuallyfigure out their need and if
it's really worthwhile for them,got it.
I always suggest go and playwith the device before you buy
it okay, all right, well thatthat could be a.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
A maybe we'll.
We'll have to see if I want toplay with a four thousand dollar
piece of sunglasses I guaranteeyou you will be will be amazed.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Blow your mind, huh.
I went in watching alreadyvideos about people showing it
and I was like, okay, this willbe okay.
And then as soon as I took itoff, I'm like I don't want to
take it off.
That's fun.
It was absolutely amazing.
I could almost smell themountain air and smell the rain
that started falling.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Well then, I think everybody should go try it at
least.
At least try it yes.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Even if you don't have an iPhone or an iPad and
you have Android.
I feel sorry for you, but goand demo the Vision Pro.
It is amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
All right.
Well, that's another episode.
Thanks for talking about that.
I'm going to say bye fromunderneath the SeaTac Airport
and we'll see you on the nextshow.
Have a good one.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Matt Foundation Nation is proudly sponsored by
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Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm your host, matthew Cote.
Today on the podcast we'regoing to talk about some
interesting recent goings-ons inour beautiful state and maybe
even a few things going on inthis amazing round thing we call
home.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello, welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm Matthew Cote, your host,along with co-host Jay.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hi, my name is Jay Salmi, owner of Jay's Technology
Solutions.
Matt, let's start the frivolity.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Frivolity.
So what's been going on?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We had some fun over the weekend.
What did you do?
We got to go to Brick Alley inPort Orchard and meet five Lego
Masters, and one of them wasactually the winner of Lego
Masters season four.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So what's Lego Masters?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It's a whole bunch of teams getting together and
building Lego spur of the moment.
They don't even know whatthey're building until moments
before they have to build it.
They have a certain amount oftime to build it and win that
round, so they have.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
How do they receive the Legos?
Is it like?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
under it's Lego, but they receive it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's all right there.
So it's like they're standingin front of a hidden box or
something.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
No, no they get told a theme, oh, a theme Like, let's
say, one theme was volcanoes.
Okay, right, and all the Legobrick is there for them.
They just have to go and grabit and bring it back to their
table.
And it's teams of two and theybuild an epic design.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And this guy consistently won and he was the
champion.
Is it elimination rounds?
They're elimination rounds, sohis team never lost.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
His team actually won one of the rounds where his
creation is actually forever putinto a video game.
Oh, okay, so it's like a littleRC car, and the one that he
made in real life got digitizedand put into a video game
forever.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh wow, it's actually a choice.
That's cool.
Do you get monies, or is thatthe reward?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
They win money at the end.
Was it $100,000?
You know, split between the two, oh, between three people, two
people, teams money at the end.
Um, was it a hundred?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
thousand dollars.
You know, split between the two, oh, between two, three people,
or two people, two people,teams of two, teams of two, okay
, yeah, so it's him plus one him, christopher and robert.
Yep, so what was?
What are the?
What's their background?
Um?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
you know, I I don't remember everyone's background,
okay, um, I can be wrong, but Ithink chris works at maybe
microsoft, I think, okay, um,don't quote me on that.
Or he did something for themfor a little bit.
I I can be wrong, but I thinkChris works at maybe Microsoft,
I think Okay, don't quote me onthat.
Or he did something for themfor a little bit.
I remember him mentioningsomething about Microsoft, okay,
but he's a business guy and, ohman, he's very charismatic, so
(02:36):
you listen to him talk and youjust listen, listen, he's fun to
listen to.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, okay, yeah, he's got a YouTube channel Duck
Bricks, duck Bricks, yep, ohcool, what is that?
Duck like quack, or just likethey're coming at you and look
out.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, Lego was one of their very first Lego designs
was a wooden duck Of wood.
Yeah, oh, I didn't know thatthat's cool.
All those years ago, back inthe last century, I remember
playing with the logs those arelincoln logs.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh, lincoln's logs, that's not lego.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh, that's different, they link yeah that's to an
extent, yeah, a little notch onthe end what does lego stand for
is an acronym I don't rememberright now, oh okay that's
interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I mean it's got a pretty interesting history, got
a massive history.
Yeah, I mean it's been a bigfollowing, very powerful product
.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It appreciates more than gold.
Oh really yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Hmm, like just the stock itself, no, the actual
product.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I bought some motors and receivers and controllers
that were being retired.
I purchased them right beforebeing retired and, let's see, it
was back in October orsomething like that I sold them
for a 325% profit.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Wow, why'd you sell them Didn't need them, I bought
them strictly for an investment.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh for that reason yeah, I only had them for like
two years.
Wow, why'd you sell them,didn't?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
need them.
I bought them strictly for oh,for that reason, yeah, I only
had them for like two years.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Go, lego Go.
Yeah, you know the Lego guys,the little people, minifigs,
minifigs, yep, have they beenthe same more or less dimensions
ever since, or were they everbigger?
Some are bigger, some are aresmaller, depending on what the
actual character is yeah, I feellike sometimes the they're a
little their, their bodieschange a little bit slightly um
(04:32):
you know, if it's a childminifig, then their legs don't
bend.
Oh, shorter that oh, that'd becute yeah, I don't think I've
seen a child one before.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Oh yeah we have lots of sets at our house and we got
lots of ones with the shorterlaces or a kid or whatever, yeah
, oh, okay, I think I want tobring one next time.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I want to look at it.
Okay, a kid one that doesn'thave bendy legs?
Okay, I don't think I've everseen that.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Okay, I think we'll work on that foundation nation
is proudly sponsored by jacetechnology solutions.
Call jace technology solutionsat 253-376-7579 for all your
computer repair, it and networksolutions so something I wanted
(05:20):
to talk about was ais.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
There's there's a lot of AI things going on, and
Apple's taking a little humbleapproach at launching its newest
device.
Oh yes, what is it?
The Vision Pro.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Vision Pro.
Yes, it's similar to a VRheadset.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Okay, describe it to me.
What does it look like?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Imagine a ski mask.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Okay, right, just thicker ski mask, obviously
heavier, you mean like a skimask, like jason, no, no ski
mask like you're going skiing,oh okay, no, down the slopes.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You know a ski mask just right over your eyes.
Oh, the goggles, the goggles,yes, sorry, ski goggles, ski
goggles my apologies.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
All right, yeah, so ski goggles.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
They're thicker, a little bit heavier.
Tons of sensors and cameras onit, okay, and I actually went
and demoed one okay what was the?
Experience like I was concerned, just like with vr for me I get
motion sickness oh yeah,nothing like that.
why no motion sickness ornothing?
They have done such animpeccable job at the refresh
(06:28):
rates and the latency being so,so small, yeah, that when you
were looking through it becauseyou don't see out the vision pro
with a clear glass, you'reseeing an image of what's in
front of you.
Oh, okay, so there's camerasprojecting the image of what's
(06:48):
in front of you.
Yeah, live, live feed right,you know, on the screen that's
inside the, the, the vision pro.
Okay, and um, I couldn't eventell.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You couldn't tell that you were looking at fake,
that I was looking at a video.
It looked like normal, right.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Wow that that I was looking at a video.
It looked like normal, right.
Wow, that's cool and it wasabsolutely amazing.
I never felt motion sick.
I never felt nauseous like Iwould with vr.
That's why I don't have vr,right it.
I can't.
I can't handle that.
You get dizzy.
Yeah, and there's a lot ofpeople out there like that and
while experiencing the visionpro, they have these certain
(07:24):
things that immerse you into avideo or a picture or whatever,
right, right, you know how.
On a computer, you have yourdesktop background, right, yeah,
picture of whatever you want.
Yeah, right, you just throw apicture up there and that's your
desktop background.
In Vision Pro, your desktopbackground can be fully
(07:44):
immersive, and what I mean bythat is one of the backgrounds
that they had.
You show or had you experiencewas in a mountain with a lake.
Okay, you're literally right onthe edge of the lake, like
about ready to step into thewater, uh-huh, right, and it
looked so real I literally feltlike I could touch the water or
(08:08):
the rocks.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So all your sensors were going off.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It was crazy how real it was.
It literally makes 3D movieslook like garbage.
Wow, it was so impressive andas you turn your head, you still
see it.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So what's the primary purpose or function of this
thing?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
it's actually it's actually a wearable computer,
okay, so you can still dofacetime, you can still do zoom,
you can still do word excelemails, surf the internet, all
that.
Yeah, you can actually hook upa keyboard, but they show you
how to use finger gestures andvoice control.
Okay, search for stuff Superintuitive.
(08:46):
Oh, wow, took me less than halfa second to figure it out.
Wow, she actually had theperson that was demoing it for
me.
She had to tell me to slow downso she can get through her
spiel and show me what I'msupposed to be doing.
Oh, yeah, yeah, but it was sointuitive.
You don't really, yeah, becauseyou know you're just you're
slowing.
I was slowing down so she couldshow me more specific things
(09:08):
that weren't necessarily asobvious, right?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
When are they, when are these things coming to be?
You can buy them.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
They've already started?
Oh, okay, yeah, that startedearlier this month, is it them?
They've already started?
Oh, okay, yeah, that startedearlier this month, is it?
How much are they?
Depends on what size of harddrive.
Oh, sure, how much storage youneed, right?
Um, if you get the one terabyteand you need the um glasses you
know they're, if you wearglasses like I do.
Oh, prescription, yeah, you geta prescription lens that gets
(09:38):
put in there.
It's magnetic, so you canchange it out and so you can
actually have other people inyour household use it, just by
changing out the lens.
Oh, okay, and it's magnetic, soit's super quick and easy.
Okay, but for me, if you did theone terabyte and the
prescription you're looking at,a little over four grand, four
grand, but it's an Apple product.
Yeah, sure, their products areexpensive, but their support is
(10:04):
amazing.
Yeah, because you can't I don'tknow of anywhere else you can
buy a computer from and then I'msaying this without a warranty
or anything, right, and go backin three months and saying, hey,
I have this issue and if youtake it to the Apple store, nine
out of ten times they're ableto fix it right on site.
(10:25):
And then they go.
Okay, have a good day.
Okay, have a good day.
Yeah, there's no charge for it,so sometimes that extra expense
is worth it.
Apple's pretty superior.
Yeah, and being a guy thatworks on Windows PCs, I do agree
with that.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, do these things .
I mean, are they for kids oradults?
I mean, what's their primaryclient?
Or who are they for $4,000, whoare they targeting to buy these
things?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I haven't seen or noticed really what their
primary target is.
That I've really have aperception of.
But when you think about it, ifyou have a home office, imagine
being able to work at home andwalk around your entire house
and still work.
Sure, from your computer,because you're wearing it, you
can put all these screens up inAR, augmented reality, basically
(11:27):
in front of you, and then ifyou need to start walking or do
something else, you just startdoing that and everything goes
transparent and you see the realworld around you and you take
care of what you need to andthen when you want to go back to
work, you just go back to workwherever you're at.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I feel like I've heard about Boeing starting to
do stuff like this, right?
Well, you've got the company.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You've got the Microsoft HoloLens that has been
around for a while, right, lotsof companies are using HoloLens
because same style oftechnology.
But the HoloLens is a cleargoggles.
Oh, okay, so there's no camerasand stuff.
It's not fully enclosed.
Okay, so you see everythinglike like my glasses I have on
(12:12):
right now.
Sure, but then the hollow lensprojects.
Information on that clear glasslens.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Instead of being like an augmented reality, right.
So you're seeing it live.
It's on the lens, in front ofyou.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay, so it's like overlapping reality, right.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Okay, same theory, just applied differently.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And I mean I'm just thinking of some of the purposes
.
If you could have engineers inthe office and then technicians
out in the field, you know,walking around saying, hey, this
is what's going on on thisplane or this job, or whatever,
the engineer could like live,you know, talk to them, and
without having to, because Iknow a lot of engineers in the
(12:58):
world they don't, they're not onsite, you know they're.
A lot of engineering is doneremotely.
You know, oh, I've a lot ofengineers in the world.
They're not on site.
A lot of engineering is doneremotely.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Oh, I've dealt with lots of them.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
yes, yeah, so having to have some eyes and ears in
the field like that would bepretty amazing.
Four grand for a company,that's reasonable.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, it's not too bad For a kid no way, no, no,
not really for a kid.
And like, let's say, you dofoundations right, matt, that's
your primary company, that'swhat you do.
Imagine being able tocollaborate with someone in
Germany about a new foundationequipment to hold up the house
or to lift the foundation Right,equipment to hold up the house
(13:38):
or to lift the foundation Right,and you're, you can redesign it
together in real space andvirtual space at the same time,
so you can have a product rightin front of you, person in
Germany, and you say, oh no,let's change this, they'll
change something Visually, youcan see what they changed and go
(13:59):
, that works.
But what if we change thisangle?
Just this much?
Ah, okay, right, and you can.
You can manipulate that sameobject in real time, virtually
right, right in a digital space.
It's actually uh, it's a, it'sa nice thing, it really is.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, that's interesting because the I mean I
know Apple the phone is thesame, the phone is the same, the
phone is the same and nothing'sreally changed.
So coming up with a new productis probably pretty important to
them.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah.
Yeah, the iPhone has stayed thesame concept, but they've
increased the hardware softwaremade it more complicated do more
stuff, because the iPhone 15now will take oh, what's the
term?
they use Basically 3D videos,immersive videos, and you can
view that on the Vision Pro asif you were still there.
(14:59):
Oh, sure, okay, okay.
So they actually showed a videowhen I did the demo of someone
taking a video on an iPhone 15Pro and then I got to watch it
and it was a birthday cake Kidblowing out a cake and
everything, and I felt like I'djust grab a piece and start
eating it.
It was crazy, amazing.
So what are you thinking?
(15:20):
Buy, don't buy, depends on youruse.
Okay, right now I don't have animmediate need, but I do want
one eventually because it'llfree up my desk.
Oh, okay, you know what I do,matt.
It'll free up my desk.
Oh, okay, that's.
You know what I do, matt,especially a lot of the remote
meetings and the remote supportwhere I need to log into
computers and take care of stuff.
(15:41):
Oh sure yeah yeah, being able todo that and not have to be tied
to my desk or tied to my iPador tied to my laptop.
Yeah, and I could just do it asI'm walking around, because
there's so many times when I gotto do updates and scan for
viruses and malware and stuffand I start that scan and then,
if I got nothing else I'mworking on, I'm just sitting
(16:02):
there waiting.
Sure, yeah, well, if I'mwearing the vision pro, I start
all that stuff and I walk around, get myself some water, grab a
bite to eat, and it's there inthe background and when, when I
see it's done, then move on.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
All right.
Well, that is it for today.
So I guess it's by don't buy,buy maybe, buy, maybe, maybe.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Well, for someone like myself, it's by it's just a
matter of when when.
So everyone's got to actuallyfigure out their need and if
it's really worthwhile for them,got it.
I always suggest go and playwith the device before you buy
it okay, all right, well thatthat could be a.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
A maybe we'll.
We'll have to see if I want toplay with a four thousand dollar
piece of sunglasses I guaranteeyou you will be will be amazed.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Blow your mind, huh.
I went in watching alreadyvideos about people showing it
and I was like, okay, this willbe okay.
And then as soon as I took itoff, I'm like I don't want to
take it off.
That's fun.
It was absolutely amazing.
I could almost smell themountain air and smell the rain
that started falling.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Well then, I think everybody should go try it at
least.
At least try it yes.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Even if you don't have an iPhone or an iPad and
you have Android.
I feel sorry for you, but goand demo the Vision Pro.
It is amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
All right.
Well, that's another episode.
Thanks for talking about that.
I'm going to say bye fromunderneath the SeaTac Airport
and we'll see you on the nextshow.
Have a good one.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
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