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76: Oculus VR Connect 3 Event

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This episode is all about VR and in particular the Oculus VR Connect 3 event which was held a few days ago. Being owned by Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg made an appearance on opening day and quietly outlined his plans to take computing to the next level and how they are helping to lay the foundations of a platform that we will all be a participants of in the near future.

We will chat about the Oculus Touch controllers coming later this year, some of the new games and apps that have been announced by various developers, and the hardware specs you need right now to get into Oculus VR. This and more on episode 76 on The Lazy Couch podcast.

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63: E3 and WWDC Special

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Epsiode 63 is a legendary one where we cover two massive conventions: gaming convention E3 and WWDC, Apple’s developer conference, how timely with Voltron: The Legendary Defender now on Netflix.

We go through the news story of the week with Microsoft making their biggest deal ever and buying the biggest organisational chart in the world, LinkedIn. Find why and for how much.

Coming all the way from LA, E3 2016 has given us new games, remasters of old classics, more VR excitement and new consoles. We give you a summary of all the announcements from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Bathesda and EA.

While there was no hardware announced at Apple’s WWDC, there were new features across the board. watchOS 3 is now much faster, tvOS lets you use your iPhone as a remote, OSX is now macOS (Sierra) with better integration across all your Apple products, iOS 10 brings about the option to remove Apple apps and a large update to the messages. We cover these and so much more in Episode 63.

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50: It’s Like You’re There

In its milestone 50th episode, Kelvin and Geoff reflect on the highs and lows of starting and recording a podcast from scratch, and what they have learnt in the process. Find out about all the DIY tips and tricks that Kelvin has implemented over the past 14 months!

In news, Geoff breaks down the curious case of the FBI vs Apple, while Kelvin leads the conversation on the latest and greatest coming out of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – LG may have introduced the most innovative feature for a mobile handset in quite some time. This and much more on episode 50 of The Lazy Couch.

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45: CES 2016

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It’s the first episode for the year, and it’s all about CES 2016 (formerly known as the Consumer Electronic Show), that was held over 4 days in Las Vegas during the week. We take a close look at some of the more interesting and innovative products that were showcased and also some that were just downright ridiculous.

There’s everything from a rollable OLED display, to a giant person-sized quadcopter, to a hoverboard/standable that doubles up as your personal robot butler! In other news, we coin the term ‘standables’! Tune in now to hear what our favourite products were at CES 2016.

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33: Life of Zuck

Kelvin returns from the U.S. to bring us news of the geek occupancy of San Francisco over the past couple of weeks. We also examine the new line of Nexus devices by Google, the new Tesla Model X car, and all the Oculus announcements you would ever hope to hear about. You thought you had a busy week? Try being Mark Zuckerberg where he smooched with President Xi and later with Prime Minister Modi, while convincing the U.N. to connect the world in the same week. This and much more on episode 33 of The Lazy Couch.

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20: T-Rex with Arms

Rejoice! Taylor Swift single-handedly saves music! What should we get her to do next.. international diplomacy? We also check in on what the new Twitter experience will be like and explain how a certain Tyrannosaurus Rex got its arms.

On the news front, we look at Tidal losing their CEO, The Rock fighting a gorilla, Twitter’s top secret project, how Twitter is killing Twitter to save Twitter, we review the indie film, Tangerine and much more!

This episode is brought to you by the letter ‘T’.

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19: You Look Rid-Oculus

It’s another monster week in the world of tech, with Twitter going through some growing pains and YouTube getting serious about gaming. Speak of which, the E3 Conference landed this week and brought with it a shedload of new games and various people looking ridiculous in their virtual reality headsets.

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