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Episode 399 – Goodbye Story Studio – 5/11/17

Norm, Jeremy, and guest Sean meet up to talk about Amazon’s new Echo Show smart assistant, disagree about Guardians of the Galaxy, and lament the closing of Oculus Story Studio. Plus, some breaking VR news while we podcast, and Sean’s adventures at a 3D printing conference!

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11 thoughts on “Episode 399 – Goodbye Story Studio – 5/11/17

  1. Guys! C’mon! Atari was a featured sign in the original Blade Runner. It makes perfect sense it’s in the new one.

  2. Heres what you do for episode 400: Have all of tested and tested friends on to talk about what they’ve been doing. Bring back Will and Gary for the episode. Have Simone on the episode as well. Have Gary talk about Star Wars. If you can’t find the time to do this next week delay the episode until you can organize this. Maybe even make some giant tested statue together as the podcast is being recorded, like decorating a christmas tree. Don’t do a 24 hour podcast but don’t set an end time. Keep recording until the episode reaches its natural conclusion. If thats half an hour or 5 hours so be it.

    Or you could do all that but in VR.

  3. Weta Digital created the Ego (Kurt Russell) effects for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, and although I have not seen it stated officially I think that would include making the young Kurt VFX.

  4. I didn’t see the first Guardians of the Galaxy but I really liked Vol. 2. The comedy was the best part (well that and the arrow scene). I always thought the characters looked incredibly stupid (a talking raccoon, really?) but I liked all of them after all was said and done. Baby Groot was awesome too, highly enjoyed every scene he was in.

    I haven’t seen Big Trouble in Little China either, Jeremy.

    Amazon Prime Video just came to the Nvidia Shield TV too, but you guys failed to mention it, yet again. For a technology podcast, you’re really being ignorant for not mentioning it. There’s a new version coming out soon and you guys should really get one and talk about it, because it’s an amazing device. It’s miles ahead of WDTV, Roku, Apple TV, or Chromecast.

    For the 400th episode, it had better be a WANG-Cast or I’ll be very disappointed (no offense to Kishore and Jeremy, they can join and make it a WANGJK-Cast!).

  5. I am curious what they guys thought about the Mantis character’s portrayal in GOTG2? I would be especially interested in hearing Norm and Keishores’ take on the series only Asian character so far.

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