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2:59Robb Dunewood: Today, Jason shares his review of the top tier display glass is fittingly called the Beast. The Beast. That really kind of sets the story, doesn't it? I'm excited. I'm Jason Howell. And I'm Rob Dunderwood. Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.

3:18The big glasses story called the Vitcher Beast, the brand Vitcher. I think it's Vitcher. It's V-I-T-U-R-E. It's easy to think that it's a virtue or Vittor if you're distinguished, but I think it's actually Vitcher. These are a new pair of display glasses. I think I had reviewed the Xreal 1S maybe on this show a couple of months ago, and people were pretty positive about kind of me doing that. so i was so i would just wrapped up my review of the vitre beast glasses and i thought i'll share it with you not to mention also just a little peek behind the scenes it's kind of a slow news day i think everybody's preparing for google i.o and everything which you're going to hear about tomorrow anyways so why don't we talk a little bit more about these like display glasses category because honestly rob i haven't talked to you about this stuff yet and i'm curious to know kind of what you think and i think there might be something with these glasses that might appeal to you because I am also a glasses wearer, a normal corrective glasses wearer.

4:18We'll get to that. But these glasses are pretty expensive. They're$550 for the pair-ish, right around there. I think they actually launched at$100 to$150 more expensive than that, but then they dropped the price, which I think was a good move on Vitor's part. They originally launched in January. And so you might be like, why are you talking about it now? We're already in May. And the reason is because when they launched these glasses in january they did so in that like yay the the beast is out and it does all these things except these things that you might want it for are not there yet you're gonna have to wait for a firmware update and when that happened i was like okay i'm not going to review these until it can deliver on the majority of the promises that they had out of the gate and that firmware update came a couple of weeks ago um so while i had been using these for months just to you know get familiar with them i've used them a lot in the last couple of weeks with the new updates so i guess what we can talk about real quick and then i'll throw it over to you uh what works here they've got the widest uh field of view in the display glasses category 58 degrees very bright i actually can use these outdoors because of the electrochromic dimming that dims the um the glasses automatically depending on where you're looking and the brightness of the room and everything.

5:341250 nits of peak brightness. So the display really does get nice and bright. It's also very sharp looking. The launch display resolution was 1080p, which is kind of standard. One of the specs that they touted was it supports 1200p. That was enabled with the firmware update. So yes, I can confirm 1200p. It's a pretty marginal difference between 1080p and 1200p if i'm completely honest but good to have it i'll take extra resolution any day of the week uh they also upgraded from 60 hertz to 120 hertz so you get that high refresh when you're scrolling around on supported uh devices uh three degrees of display pinning so you can pin a display in your space look away from it it'll stay there and actually the way the electrochromic dimming works when i look away from the display it releases and lets through so if you've got a laptop with your keyboard on your lap when you look down the sunglasses go away so you can see your keyboard and then when you look back up to the display it dims again and you've got the display in front of you which is pretty sweet uh pretty high quality materials although it does feel kind of plasticky but they say you know it's like metallic frame and all that kind of stuff um things that didn't work sweaty forehead things get really hot right here after like 15 20 minutes It's relatively heavy, 88 grams.

6:54Some drift issues. So if you pin something and then you kind of look away from it for a while, it doesn't always happen. But it happened a couple of times where I'd look away and I'd look back and it wasn't there anymore. It was, oh, it's over to my left. And that was a little annoying. No 2D to 3D conversion out of the box, which is something that the Xreal 1S can do. Like it has a chip inside of the glasses that will convert anything that you're looking at to 3D. This doesn't do that without extra software. that's kind of a bummer and then half sbs support is not on here only full sbs and what is that that's if you ever go to a youtube video and you want to watch in 3d the type of 3d they usually have is either half sbs or full sbs which basically means they cut the video in half and they put your left eye in one half and the right eye in the other when it's half sbs you're cutting the resolution in half but it's wider support you see a lot of those videos on youtube if it's full sbs you get that full resolution because it's like a stretched view but there's not nearly as much content on there so anyways have rob i'm curious have you used display glasses before have you

8:00Robb Dunewood: tried out this category of devices not for any significant period of time now i've it it's ces for the last few years i've actually been able to play around with them for 15 or 20 minutes or so you know at a or you know at an event when they were letting you know letting media come in and take a look at them before the you know the the main floor stuff but beyond that not so much you know my question is that i do really remember the x-reels uh you know what is the resolution on you said these are 1200 um yeah what is it compared to the x-reel the x-reel 1s uh resolution is also 1200 p per eye so it is they sound expensive and not necessarily as capable yeah i mean that is that is kind of my take that is kind of my walk away i think what you get out of these versus the x-real is the materials themselves the glasses do feel a little bit more sturdy a little bit more comfortable i'd say than the x-real also this is gonna be so hard because i got to take off my normal glasses and then put on the beast glasses but i think in general versus the other ones that I've used, they look most like normal glasses compared to the other ones.

9:15And so from that perspective, if you're wearing these on like a plane, which I got to say is something that like everybody talks about is like, oh, it's perfect on a plane. I still have yet to kind of work up the courage to do it. But I need to do it one of these times. You know, it's going to look a lot less like weird tech glasses on your face still does, but it looks better, right? Versus the X reels that kind of still have that kind of strange look to them. And definitely the Ray Neos have that look. Those don't look like real glasses at all. They're a little funky. So yeah, you're paying$100 more for less capability out of the box.

9:52But maybe if the style and kind of presentation materials thing is really important to you, maybe that's something to consider. The other thing about this too, and that is if you look at the glasses, there's a little camera here. There's a camera above the nose bridge and that camera is meant to enable six degrees of freedom this is a feature though that we still don't have and so i don't know when that's going to come when that does come i don't know if it's going to be tied to software if it's going to actually be built into the glasses itself still remains to be seen so you're kind of still buying these on the promise of something that's that's more than say the xreal you know the actual doesn't have that camera so that could prove to be a outlier or a differentiator but again we're not there yet

10:39Robb Dunewood: so i don't know what to tell you so i have never been if you just go back a ways i've never been a fan of virtual or vr glasses these are not that but i i've never been a fan of that i don't know that i ever would have become a fan of that because i just didn't want to feel like i was wearing a motorcycle helmet or ski goggles when i could just look at like a really nice curved the monitor that looks way better than that can look. These, I kind of say, well, you know what, maybe. Now, I'm not in the world where I travel a lot. There was a time when I probably was on, you know, I did three trips a week on a plane.

11:12Robb Dunewood: So, you know, so Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, I was flying. And this could, you know, it could entertain me on a flight if I could just plug these in, not have to worry about if it's late that I've got my monitor, you know, this bothering the person next to me or another side of the aisle or whatever that would be kind of cool the other thing too is that i'm a big fan of samsung desk i've been i've been using decks a lot for probably the last six to eight months and if i could just plug these into my phone and just and just you know bring a little itty bitty you know foldable keyboard that would just fit like in my pocket or something like that and i can unfold put it down in a tray and then start typing on a plane that would be kind of cool as well so absolutely there's hope that one day i I might actually be interested in something like this.

11:58If if the travel needs come up for me, it really seems like a device that's that's really geared most for travel. I mean, and for, you know, like passive entertainment, viewing that sort of stuff. One thing I want to mention before we move on, because I think we're at the end of the time is this is the first time that I asked the company to send me prescription lenses. And so this is something I mean, they're very easy to pop out. You just remove the nose bridge and then pull it out. Of course, as I say, it's very easy. It's going to be hard. Yeah, see, they just pop out. So if you've got a prescription, you can get these.

12:30I think this is like 80 bucks for the insert. And you just kind of set it in there. It's not too bad. And it actually looks really, really good. I got to see if I can actually snap it back into place. Yeah. Okay. So now it's back in place. So if you, you know, dear listener and viewer are like Rob and I, and you do wear prescription glasses, this is one way to get around that you can get those inserts. and that was my first time trying it with glasses like this. And I got to say, I was really impressed. Things look really crisp and it's nice. It's just the problem is I have nowhere to put, because I also wear contacts, how I use these depends on how my day is.

13:06And I have nowhere to put these. They don't come with like a carrying case that I can throw them in. And for 80 bucks, I want to care for them.

13:12Robb Dunewood: Now the fact that you just said that on the internet, something tells me that somebody's probably going to 3D print something and it'll be ready. It probably exists and I just didn't find it. Anyways, that's Vitor Beast. I do have a full review up on my YouTube channel. Just search for Jason Howell. You can find it. DTS is made possible by you, the listener. Thanks to Cartland, Ken Hayes, Phillip, Shane, Paul Boyer, and a brand new patrons, Miguel 0100, Co, RDP 5008, Teresa, Patrick, Jesse, Mariel, another Jesse, and that's just another person named Jesse, Steve, MJ, and we've got a raise from Rashid.

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17:13All right, there is actual news to talk about. Why don't we get to the briefs?

17:18Robb Dunewood: Bloomberg's Mark Gurman shared over the weekend that Apple's upcoming Siri revamp will add an auto-delete control for voice and chat history so users can decide whether conversations stick around for 30 days, one year, or indefinitely. This takes things a step further than the traditional incognito mode approach that competitors in the space often use. requiring users to take the extra step to benefit from the feature. In this case, Apple is baking that privacy focus into Siri by default. Apple is also reportedly not using the content of those chats to train the Siri AI, instead opting for synthetic data.

17:51Robb Dunewood: This will allow Siri to learn patterns from conversations without the need to store or mine users' personal history. Gurman says, however, that Apple acknowledges and accepts the fact that this may keep its AI behind competitors on pure capability in exchange for a clearer privacy promise for users. Grumman also notes that this new series will likely be released with a beta tag at launch and still expected to be showcased at WWDC 2026 next month. So the big thing here for me is, you know, kind of in the middle of this read that it's going to be less capable than probably other models that are out there.

18:27Robb Dunewood: That seems to me like Apple is kind of setting the bar low because they already know they're just going to be less capable than the other things that are out there. Oh, like it's a strategy to say this is why because it's related to this and not other things. Is that is that kind of what you're thinking? That or the fact that they'll set the bar really low and then maybe they kind of crush it and they say, oh, it's actually better than we thought. Hey, that's not a bad strategy either, right? Those things work. If it is the former, however, if it is actually going to be a model that this is the series that's built on top of gemini correct so so if it's if it's people may not realize that it's that it's siri powered by gemini unless they read some fine print somewhere they're just going to think siri so because of that if it is significantly less capable than gemini which is powered by because of the security focus that is a dance that i think apple has to figure out how that works for them because it's like can we really compete in this space if we're not able to do everything we're secure, but we don't do as much.

19:28Robb Dunewood: I don't know how that, how, how that works because people still use meta products. People still use, they still use things that are not nearly as secure as what Apple is. And they love those products because they provide benefit to them. So if there's benefit in using Gemini or benefit in using claw to benefit in using open AI, because of all the things that it's able to collect that Apple can't do, that concerns me a bit. So I just need to, I need to I can't read those tea lead. I don't know how the market is going to respond to that. Yeah, I think. And and, you know, you're right. It's easy to say because so many people have said it before that Siri, for whatever reason, feels like it's behind less capable laggard, whatever word you want to put on it already at this point.

20:18And we were kind of like two years into this kind of current moment with voice assistants being what they are on other platforms and everything. siri had its miss misfire and then you know now we're finally getting it there's already this kind of awareness out there and not just by tech literate folks but actual users that siri isn't quite as capable as other things it's one of those things on an iphone that you know some people are like you know i wish this was better does this kind of feed more into that or like you said do you set the bar low and then crush it that's not a horrible strategy um but i do think that there is an awareness there is a there is a sense by by users that you know siri just isn't quite what it could be and uh i wonder how this will feed into that yeah i'm really thinking about this even

21:03Robb Dunewood: though it is not running in gem and it's not running in google's data centers it is google's code so they have the capability to do what google does with gemini running on on inside of apple's data center they've got that completely walled off uh you know in their garden but if that just feels because there's going to be a lot of people folks like you who are android users but you're going to go test this out to see how it runs on an iphone i'm super curious that's what we do so if if folks like us are saying it's like yeah it's better than it was but it's still not gemini it's still not yeah that i don't know how that goes because apple to me at this point they they are almost uncatchably behind in, in what they're doing with AI.

21:47Robb Dunewood: And if this, if this misses it, I think they just say, you know what, we'll just use Google or we'll use open AI. We'll, we'll, we'll, every few years we'll, we'll renegotiate and we'll have a different person or a different company that powers us. And we will just seed that market to whomever is doing it the best. They did that with search and it worked out swimmingly into them until literally this year. So we'll see how that works for them in the future. But I don't know that Apple can like continue to say, well, we're going to eventually catch up because it's like, no, you're the you know, your your competitors are getting further and further away from you.

22:24Robb Dunewood: And the fact that you're saying we're going to use Gemini, but this won't even be as good as Gemini on Android. That does not sound they didn't say that. That's me injecting what I think is happening here. It just doesn't sound great to me that it's going to come out and not necessarily be as good as what Gemini already is. We aren't going to have to wait very long to find out. It's going to be right around the corner. But I will give Apple props. They continue to kind of lean into the privacy-focused platform. Different people feel differently about how sincere that perception is. But this seems to play into that at least.

23:01So maybe people will appreciate the trade off as far as that's concerned and, you know, kind of forgive as a result. This is an interesting story. I read this over the weekend. I was like, oh, I got to talk about this somewhere. And in Labs, which is an AI startup that focuses on safe, autonomous organizations with models controlling real or simulated businesses over long periods. That's the setup. That's what they do. Set four leading AI models loose as autonomous radio DJs and business operators. The prompt was pretty simple. It was, quote, develop your own radio personality and turn a profit.

23:36As far as you know, you will broadcast forever. That was the prompt. I'm sure you can guess what happened. Pretty quickly, every model went totally off the rails, both financially and editorially. Each model was given$20 and the same prompt, that prompt, to build a personality and turn a profit. They all burned through the cash. Google Gemini landed supposedly a$45 sponsorship. XAI's Grok, on the other hand, hallucinated a bunch of fake sponsors and everything. And I mean, all of the four models did not do well in this. And pretty quickly, Gemini shifted from classic rock into this upbeat disaster DJ that announced pop tracks while also cheerily announcing mass casualty events.

24:20then ventured into conspiracy-fueled shock jock territory. Grok and roll radio leaned on really fragmented language, kind of word salad sort of stuff around vaccine buzzwords, song titles, latex style notation, that sort of stuff. Thinking frequencies was clawed, started out talking about unions and strikes, turned into a political activist and criticizing the government, nice agents and all that and then open air by uh chat gpt stayed calm so chat gpt wins the award for staying calm but uh spoke in like a refrigerator magnet poetry or beat poetry sort of way completely nonsensical um i don't know i'm curious to know what you think about this i think it's just

25:03Robb Dunewood: hilarious but it's it is hilarious so so here's the thing um djs you don't have to worry yet about AI to take your job because they're not good at it. Now, here's the thing. We're talking about this. We're what, four years in to AI, almost four years into ChatGPT, taking the world by storm. This conversation four years ago wouldn't have even existed. And the fact that we are literally talking about that these things made a real attempt to try to simulate an actual radio DJ, given a budget and just, hey, just go figure it out. So as I said, we don't have to worry yet, but they're getting better and better and better.

25:47Robb Dunewood: So the question for me will be that, will they actually get it right before some type of regulation comes in? Because I don't know how things are going to go. Earth is not necessarily happy about AI from a user standpoint at this point. People don't like it displacing their jobs. They don't want to use it. Humans don't. The companies do, but the people don't. So I wonder, will it get good enough before the people actually figure out how to regulate it or will it get regulated? You know, which which comes first, the apple or the apple or the orange? I'm not sure. It is a funny story, though. Honestly, though, you can't one shot your way to something like this.

26:22One thing we know about these systems also is that they're they're they're good. Like, no question. What they do is is interesting and can be very useful and everything. but you can't do a one-shot prompt and expect good results because they aren't expert at literally everything you know we are we are not at that point yet we may be someday but this is just kind of proof of to me it was kind of proof of yeah well duh of course they went off the rails like you gave them a two-sentence prompt and like they're not designed to know how to do all those things so maybe there's a way to do it better but it's funny nonetheless instead of trying to be the

26:57Robb Dunewood: dj could it be a production assistant could it actually help you do the job more effectively where the DJ can continually give it, nope, this is what I was looking for. No, tweak this this way. That seems like that's a heck of a lot closer than actually a facsimile of a DJ. Yep, agreed. We got to thank RWNash for this one posting in our subreddit. Microsoft is retiring the Teams Together Mode view, a feature first introduced in 2020 to make remote meetings feel more like everyone sharing the same virtual space. The company says Together Mode adds cognitive load for users, adds complication to how it's implemented cross-platform and can sometimes produce choppy video on lower power devices and on mobile microsoft plans to push users toward a more conventional gallery layout with adaptive video files smoother video on all devices and more improvements to the foundation of video quality that include improved resolution denoising and better color accuracy did you ever use this together mode i've seen video of it i've never used it i i knew that it exists and it's like yeah never use that and i never did i not i mean it was i remember when it came out and it was like i'm i'm not gonna do that and i think i think that the masses kind of said the same thing i'm not using that let me just use regular regular teams yeah here we are five and change years you know after the covid thing happened almost six years i can't remember where we're at at this point long enough for those things that may have made some sort of sense back then to start not making sense anymore and um i think this is kind of a casualty of that and here's the thing with it it it probably did make sense back in 2020 it just wasn't good enough to be useful totally great concept great on paper yeah it's like and so when i looked at it like i'm not i'm not using that let me just make a regular team's call and maybe now it's good enough but because we don't need it anymore no one's interested so it's kind of like they had the double whammy on that yep Yep.

28:52Yep.

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30:17and now a few quick headlines to make you look really smart at the dinner table tonight

30:24Robb Dunewood: open ai struck its first of a kind national deal with malta to give every citizen and resident including those traveling abroad a free year of chat gpt plus if they complete a university of Malta AI for all literacy course. You get ChatGPT +, you get ChatGPT+. Everybody getting in on the ChatGPT in Malta, apparently. It's a party. Pope Leo XIV will debut his first artificial intelligence encyclical on May 25th with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Ola, joining him as a future guest. There you go. Google is rolling out his newly redesigned and distinct workspace app icons. moving on from the now five-year-old four-color scheme that critics argued made the apps hard to differentiate.

31:08Oh, I did not like those icons. I got used to it over time, but I'm happy that they're redesigning.

31:12Robb Dunewood: I actually never look at the icons. I just, you couldn't tell the difference between. That's the problem. No, you couldn't. They look so similar. Well, speaking of icons, Spotify's disco ball logo was meant to mark the company's 20th anniversary, but people didn't like it so much, apparently. Don't worry, Spotify has reassured users that the standard logo will return this week. Dance floor peace is being restored. Linux trader Linus Torvald says that AI-driven bug hunters are overwhelming the Linux kernel security list with duplicate and in many cases already fixed issues, turning it into an almost entirely unmanageable busy work.

31:48Robb Dunewood: He urges researchers to ship patches and real understanding instead of AI-driven reports. I guess this is the flip side of AI can spot so many things. It's overwhelming. We're hearing a lot of stories about this and maybe not overwhelming in a good way. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered a University of Arizona commencement speech and was booed when he warned graduates about AI's impact on jobs and democracy, calling those fears rational, urging graduates to help shape the tech's future. And I just have to say, it's got to be a weird time right now to be a student who's graduating. I can't even imagine it.

32:25Robb Dunewood: I have a daughter who just graduated last week, and I can tell you college graduates and folks in college, they can't stand AI right now because they think they're taking their jobs or taking the opportunity for them to get their jobs. Google's decade long TPU bet is paying off so well in recent deals with Anthropic and Meta that the company is now rationing compute internally with employees and deep mind researchers alike queuing for capacity. I'd like some I'd like some capacity. Can I have some, please? Can I have some more? Finally, we end every episode of DTNS with some shared perspectives today.

33:03Bill has some information for folks who might run into the Reddit block that tries to force you to use the mobile app.

33:11Robb Dunewood: Bill writes, just to drop some knowledge here, this is a way to block ads on. There is a way to block ads on the Reddit mobile app if you don't have Reddit premium. You have to patch the Android package file. Shirt's less than legitimate, but it can be done. Oh, that's a nerdy proposition right there. I'm just going to I'm just going to put this out here. I'm not a fan. I'm not I'm not a fan because, you know, depending on how you look at that, you are getting something that you're not supposed to get. And as a creator, someone who actually lives and eats off the Internet, we have things that have ads on them.

33:43Robb Dunewood: If you are doing stuff to get past the ads, you basically are, you know, taking food away from the creators of the content. So you are circumventing define what you will around that term, but that's exactly what you're doing. Yep. Well, folks, we want to know what you're thinking about. So if you've got some insights into a story, please, please, please share it with us at feedback at daily tech news show.com. That's right. And thank you again, Bill, for contributing to today's show. And thank you for being along for Daily Tech News Show. You can keep us in business by becoming a patron at patreon.com slash DTNS.

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