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- 0:03Josh: So just last night meta had their meta connect event where
- 0:06Josh: they unveiled three new flagship devices at the
- 0:09Josh: core of their ai hardware efforts the first
- 0:12Josh: one called the ray-ban meta gen 2s they had the oakley meta vanguard and the
- 0:16Josh: product that i think everyone's most excited about which is the meta ray-ban
- 0:19Josh: display now basically what this is pair of glasses you put them on your face
- 0:23Josh: and suddenly they have a display in one of the uh lenses that allows you to
- 0:27Josh: see all the the compute overlaid on the real world.
- 0:31Josh: So Ijaz, I want to talk about that first because that seems like the most exciting
- 0:34Josh: thing. Can you walk us through what exactly was announced last night with these
- 0:38Josh: cool new Meta Ray-Ban displays?
- 0:39Ejaaz: So imagine a pair of fancy sunglasses, except it's AI.
- 0:46Ejaaz: It has a high resolution display coupled with something called a metaneural wristband.
- 0:52Ejaaz: So imagine like a wristband on your arm, something maybe akin to a Fitbit or
- 0:57Ejaaz: a Whoop, And if you make any subtle gestures with your hand or your fingers,
- 1:02Ejaaz: it controls the display that you're looking at through your glasses.
- 1:06Ejaaz: And so you might be asking, well, what am I looking at through my glasses?
- 1:09Ejaaz: Well, pretty much anything you can do with a phone. You can scroll text.
- 1:12Ejaaz: You can reply to them. You can watch HD videos.
- 1:16Ejaaz: You can take photos, edit photos, and send them to your friends all in real time.
- 1:21Ejaaz: And if you're thinking, oh, this kind of sounds like Google Glass and we saw
- 1:25Ejaaz: how that went, I'm afraid we've been brought into the 21st, maybe even the 22nd
- 1:30Ejaaz: century here, where we have a full suite of apps.
- 1:34Ejaaz: We have a 46 megapixel camera and we have almost 18 hours of runtime.
- 1:41Ejaaz: But don't take my word for it. We have a video here demonstrated by none other
- 1:45Ejaaz: than Mark Zuckerberg himself when he walked onto the stage with a live demo. Check this out.
- 1:51Ejaaz: So for those who are listening, he's sitting in his trailer outside of the stage
- 1:55Ejaaz: and he's wearing these glasses and a calendar event pops up,
- 1:59Ejaaz: which says, hey, you've got your keynote now.
- 2:01Ejaaz: So he's like, OK, I guess I need to go onto the stage.
- 2:04Ejaaz: He selects a track because he wants to listen to some music whilst he walks
- 2:08Ejaaz: onto stage. So he accesses his Spotify and he plays a song. I think it's called Enjoy the Ride.
- 2:13Ejaaz: And the music is playing through headphones that are installed into the handles
- 2:18Ejaaz: of these sunglasses. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking.
- 2:21Ejaaz: This sounds obtrusive, right? I don't want people listening to my music on the train or whatever.
- 2:26Ejaaz: It's isolated towards your own ears. So no one else hears it but you.
- 2:30Ejaaz: It's a really remarkable attempt at a new form factor of technology where you
- 2:35Ejaaz: can interact with different types of social media, music, or anything like that.
- 2:39Ejaaz: What you can see on the screen now is he's chatting live with his friends in real time.
- 2:44Ejaaz: He's saying, hey, I'm on my way. I'll be there in about 20 seconds.
- 2:47Ejaaz: A friend replies saying, okay, cool.
- 2:48Ejaaz: I'm over here. Sends him a photo of what he's seeing through his meta ray display bands.
- 2:52Josh: It's all remarkably cool um before
- 2:55Ejaaz: I go into the features josh i want to get your initial gut take is this cool
- 3:00Ejaaz: to you or is this kind of novelty cringe.
- 3:03Josh: So so throughout the presentation i feel like inside of me there were two wolves
- 3:07Josh: there's like the techno optimist part of me that really wants this to be great
- 3:11Josh: that wants to believe that this is very much the future this is here right now
- 3:15Josh: these products are incredible and then there was like the more pragmatic,
- 3:19Josh: realistic version who has been in the tech world for decades of time, who is just like,
- 3:24Josh: oh my God, this is a toy.
- 3:26Josh: This is not real. This is not a serious presentation.
- 3:29Josh: This is like actually a joke. None of your demos work. Even the ones that do, the software is clunky.
- 3:34Josh: The hardware is very much version one. And at times it felt like they were advertising
- 3:37Josh: an action camera versus a real smart AI interface.
- 3:41Josh: And that to me kind of rubbed me the wrong way. So I think in terms of wanting
- 3:46Josh: progress, this is amazing.
- 3:48Josh: I am very glad that they're building in public and they are doing this in a
- 3:52Josh: way that is available to consumers starting September 30th for these glasses.
- 3:56Josh: But also, it feels like it is so early and so half-baked that even if you gave
- 4:00Josh: me one of these glasses for free, I would want to demo it, sure.
- 4:03Josh: But I'm not sure I'd actually walk around and interface with my regular life with them on.
- 4:09Josh: But there were some things that were really interesting. And I think throughout
- 4:12Josh: this presentation, there were there were signs of life.
- 4:14Josh: There were signs of hope that, OK, this very much is a new frontier that they're establishing.
- 4:19Josh: There's a lot of potential here. There's a lot of technology that's built into
- 4:21Josh: not only the glasses, but the wrist strap that we're going to talk about soon.
- 4:25Josh: And that to me was the exciting part. It was more the promise of what we're
- 4:28Josh: going to get versus what was revealed today.
- 4:32Josh: And I'm wondering, Ijaz, you seemed pretty enthusiastic about it.
- 4:35Josh: Did you have a different type of sentiment than me?
- 4:38Ejaaz: Okay, so I went through the same rollercoaster that you did,
- 4:42Ejaaz: which was incredibly pessimistic when a few of the demos that they tried to attempt live failed.
- 4:51Ejaaz: And then I realized that what they were trying to achieve here,
- 4:56Ejaaz: what they were trying to build was incredibly ambitious. And for a V1,
- 4:59Ejaaz: this was actually pretty impressive.
- 5:01Ejaaz: And I'll tell you why, right? My gut at the end of the presentation was,
- 5:06Ejaaz: maybe this isn't the coolest V1, but for the price of $799, I would buy it.
- 5:12Ejaaz: It has enough for me that I think it would be useful for me to at least try
- 5:18Ejaaz: out and maybe see what it can do. You know what it reminded me of, Josh?
- 5:23Josh: What's that?
- 5:24Ejaaz: Do you remember Steve Jobs' keynote for the iPhone 4? I was like a little teenager.
- 5:32Ejaaz: At that point but i remember him launching it and he did a live demo on stage
- 5:38Ejaaz: i think it was demonstrating uh i think it was like some kind of like new camera
- 5:42Ejaaz: feature and it flopped and,
- 5:45Ejaaz: yeah safari and potentially facetime exactly and and
- 5:48Ejaaz: it flopped in real time and that was because you
- 5:51Ejaaz: know there was like wi-fi connections or whatever and that ended up being okay
- 5:55Ejaaz: at the end of the day now i know this isn't v4 of these ray-ban uh glasses but
- 6:01Ejaaz: i feel like it we can give it a little bit of room to to kind of grow um but
- 6:06Ejaaz: the coolest part of these ai glasses josh,
- 6:09Ejaaz: isn't actually the glasses to me it's the wristband i.
- 6:13Josh: Think that is
- 6:14Ejaaz: I i think that is super super cool um so to kind of dig into what the wristband
- 6:20Ejaaz: does um for the viewers it's called an EMG neural band.
- 6:25Ejaaz: It basically lets you scroll, pinch, or even write in the air,
- 6:30Ejaaz: and it transcribes straight onto the display that you have within your glasses.
- 6:35Ejaaz: And the reason why I think this is cool is this kind of like moves away from
- 6:39Ejaaz: the Nintendo Wii controller to something that is a little more accessible to
- 6:45Ejaaz: the average day-to-day person, something that is way more useful for someone.
- 6:49Ejaaz: It is also a remarkable invention of technology.
- 6:52Ejaaz: Josh, do you remember when we actually spoke about the research paper that Meta
- 6:57Ejaaz: released of this neural band? I think it was like...
- 7:00Ejaaz: It feels like a while ago, but
- 7:01Ejaaz: I think it was literally only a month and a half, maybe two months ago.
- 7:05Ejaaz: When we went through that paper on our show, it was remarkable how much detail
- 7:10Ejaaz: and effort had gone into this.
- 7:12Ejaaz: It's evident that Meta had been working on this for a number of different years,
- 7:15Ejaaz: and Zuckerberg actually confirmed that on stage.
- 7:17Ejaaz: But even the slightest of gestures can be picked up by this neural wristband,
- 7:22Ejaaz: and it detects muscle movement.
- 7:24Ejaaz: So it's not really kind of like checking your pulse or looking at any kind of
- 7:29Ejaaz: sensory type of things. through your nerves.
- 7:31Ejaaz: It's just muscle twitches. And you might be thinking, well, I might use my hand
- 7:35Ejaaz: to do something else and it might cause the screen to do blah, blah, blah.
- 7:38Ejaaz: It's incredibly intuitive, as we've seen from some of the demos that have been
- 7:41Ejaaz: released so far. So that's the thing I'm most excited about, less so the glasses.
- 7:46Josh: Yeah, same. So let's summarize. So basically, with these glasses,
- 7:49Josh: you get two things, right?
- 7:50Josh: You get the pair of wearable glasses, and then you also get this wrist strap, this EMG.
- 7:55Josh: And the way these glasses compute and they connect to the world is through a tether with your phone.
- 7:58Josh: So if your phone has connection, well, your glasses have connection as well.
- 8:02Josh: The cool thing about the EMG sensor that you talked about, I kind of want to
- 8:06Josh: walk through the technicals of it because I think a lot of people don't understand
- 8:10Josh: the difference between an interface like the Apple Watch.
- 8:13Josh: If you've used a new Apple Watch, it detects if you're pinching your fingers.
- 8:16Josh: That's using muscular detection. It's not quite using the same technology that Matt is using today.
- 8:22Josh: So EMG, it stands for electromyography, and the band works by using these surface
- 8:28Josh: electromyography sensors to detect these tiny little electrical signals in your
- 8:31Josh: muscle form, which is really cool.
- 8:33Josh: So it contacts your skin, it detects the signals, and it processes it using
- 8:38Josh: this machine learning algorithm to analyze the signals
- 8:41Josh: Detect the subtle movements that allow you to interact with the actual device.
- 8:45Josh: So I was watching a few demos of people using it.
- 8:47Josh: A single tap with your pointer finger and your thumb is the select button.
- 8:52Josh: And then a double tap with your middle finger and your thumb is the back button.
- 8:56Josh: And you navigate the menus by actually moving your finger around your
- 9:01Josh: hand and simulating the actual movement that the band then understands
- 9:05Josh: and intuitively allows you to interact with the device with
- 9:08Josh: so it's this really cool companion piece to
- 9:11Josh: the glasses and i think in terms of of
- 9:14Josh: this new frontier of computing the way that we
- 9:17Josh: interact with it is really important like the last big one
- 9:20Josh: we got was multi-touch and the way you interact with glass is actually
- 9:23Josh: just with your fingers and it accepts multiple touches at once well the
- 9:25Josh: way you interact with this like ar not that
- 9:28Josh: these are ar glasses but this new like spatial world of computing
- 9:31Josh: the the electro thing is like pretty freaking cool so that got me really excited
- 9:35Josh: and i think that's the thing i want to test the most is how accurate it is and
- 9:39Josh: kind of thinking about how much further they can push that because it feels
- 9:42Josh: like this technology is certainly not limited to just navigating a simple menu
- 9:48Josh: but there's a lot more here for them to unpack i
- 9:50Ejaaz: Also want to bring it back to the glasses itself which is actually a pretty
- 9:53Ejaaz: impressive invention in itself the amount of technology and compute that they're
- 9:58Ejaaz: packed into what is essentially like something that is the weight of a couple of feathers is insane.
- 10:05Ejaaz: So I've pulled up a few stats here, Josh, that I want to walk through because
- 10:08Ejaaz: I know what a lot of people are thinking here, which was an initial thought that I had, which is,
- 10:13Ejaaz: if I have a high resolution display over my eyes, how am I going to interact
- 10:19Ejaaz: with the world? I'm going to walk into someone.
- 10:20Ejaaz: I'm going to knock into something. They're going to be able to see what I'm
- 10:23Ejaaz: seeing on my screen. That isn't actually the case.
- 10:26Ejaaz: The 600 by 600 pixel resolution is only located in one of the lenses.
- 10:32Ejaaz: So you can pretty much have about 85% of your view unobstructed.
- 10:39Ejaaz: It's also a 20 degree field of view. So whereas you normally would see kind
- 10:44Ejaaz: of like everything everywhere through a 180 perspective.
- 10:48Ejaaz: This kind of like limits you in some sense, but gives you a wide enough angle
- 10:51Ejaaz: such that you are aware of people that are walking around you,
- 10:54Ejaaz: objects that are surrounding you, can interact with things in relative perspective.
- 10:58Ejaaz: It has about 5,000 nits of brightness, which compared to the latest iPhone,
- 11:02Ejaaz: which is around 3,000 nits, I believe, it's comparably larger, right?
- 11:06Ejaaz: So this is no kind of meager effort or mediocre effort.
- 11:10Ejaaz: This is high-grade, high-resolution technology for the new age, essentially.
- 11:17Ejaaz: 2% light leakage. What this essentially means is for someone,
- 11:22Ejaaz: Let's say I'm wearing the glasses right now, Josh, and you're looking at me and you're like,
- 11:26Ejaaz: why there's some flashing lights in Ejaz's lenses, you actually won't see that
- 11:30Ejaaz: at all because the light leakage just does not occur.
- 11:33Ejaaz: It's all contained within these glasses, which is crazy because it's an open
- 11:37Ejaaz: device, right? You can move the handles up and down.
- 11:40Ejaaz: There are speakers on these handles. You would think otherwise,
- 11:42Ejaaz: but it's super cool. And then they have microphones, speakers,
- 11:45Ejaaz: and cameras, all the usual gizmos that you would get with your phone.
- 11:48Josh: Yeah, so there's a lot of specs here. There's a lot of numbers.
- 11:50Josh: I was really interested in the actual usability.
- 11:52Josh: So late last night after the presentation, I kind of I went on X and I was scrolling
- 11:56Josh: through and seeing videos of people actually using the device and the way it's
- 11:59Josh: used seems pretty unique.
- 12:00Josh: I think the the highlight features are the resolution is actually pretty good.
- 12:04Josh: So when you are actually wearing the glasses it's not very pixelated because
- 12:08Josh: of that 5000 nit display you can look everywhere but the sun and it will actually
- 12:13Josh: show you a bright display so you don't have to worry about going outside or
- 12:16Josh: being in direct sunlight and in fact the lenses are transition lenses so as
- 12:19Josh: you go outside into brighter territory it may take a second to darken but once
- 12:23Josh: it darkens the display will be very clear and obvious
- 12:25Josh: so it seems like in terms of the actual user experience of the device it's pretty
- 12:29Josh: good so long as you don't mind the limited functionality of the device and using
- 12:33Josh: meta's ecosystem which we can probably talk about in a little bit but ijaz i
- 12:36Josh: know we have a couple demos that we want to show or maybe the lack thereof demos
- 12:39Josh: some worked some didn't which one are we going to start with here let's
- 12:43Ejaaz: Uh let's start with the ones that actually worked.
- 12:45Josh: Okay this one is cool I loved this one.
- 12:48Ejaaz: Exactly, yeah. So one of the coolest features from the presentation was the
- 12:51Ejaaz: fact that you could make subtle gestures for writing words on any kind of platform.
- 12:57Ejaaz: In this example, it's Zuckerberg writing on a kind of like very conveniently
- 13:03Ejaaz: placed pedestal, which is right next to him.
- 13:05Ejaaz: And he's writing out words and it's appearing in actual text in his text chain
- 13:10Ejaaz: or in his WhatsApp chat that he's having with someone live on stage.
- 13:14Ejaaz: And this is all done live.
- 13:16Ejaaz: So if you look at this video, So his hand is casually placed on this pedestal
- 13:20Ejaaz: and he is just writing out words as if you would write in a notebook or a textbook,
- 13:27Ejaaz: for example, and it appears live.
- 13:30Ejaaz: On his screen in his WhatsApp chat. And then he clicks send.
- 13:33Ejaaz: And what's interesting here is during this demo, he kind of makes the case that
- 13:39Ejaaz: whilst you're talking to a human or whilst you're listening to a human,
- 13:43Ejaaz: you might want to make notes.
- 13:44Ejaaz: You might want to interact and have a conversation with someone else.
- 13:48Ejaaz: And what he's suggesting is you can do this subtly because you can just use
- 13:52Ejaaz: your hand and this EMG Neural Band.
- 13:54Ejaaz: I don't know if I agree with that. I already get annoyed when people are wearing
- 13:59Ejaaz: AirPods in real time when I'm having a conversation with them.
- 14:02Ejaaz: I don't care if you're not listening to music.
- 14:03Ejaaz: It's kind of disrespectful in my opinion.
- 14:05Ejaaz: So I don't quite agree with that particular use case, but I think it's cool
- 14:09Ejaaz: that I don't have to type out, that I don't have to whip out my phone and tap
- 14:13Ejaaz: with my thumbs. I could just kind of make subtle gestures.
- 14:16Josh: Yeah, this was one of the few things that it rubbed me a little bit the wrong way.
- 14:19Josh: The first one being when he walked out and he kind of led the conference and
- 14:23Josh: presentation with like, hey, this is the convergence of super intelligence and hardware.
- 14:28Josh: And this is a very far cry from super intelligence and and
- 14:31Josh: using the s word to lead the presentation it felt a little
- 14:33Josh: disingenuous and not real this was the second one where okay you
- 14:36Josh: have these glasses which it's bad enough that now if
- 14:40Josh: anyone walks up to you with a pair of glasses the societal effects
- 14:44Josh: of that will be a little awkward like hey am i being recorded uh like i know
- 14:47Josh: even if you're not going to record it is meta recording and now am i going to
- 14:51Josh: be part of meta's database but in addition during this demo he pitched it as
- 14:54Josh: a multitasking device which i thought was really interesting to use the word
- 14:57Josh: multitasking when you're already
- 14:59Josh: going up against so much friction in this human-to-human interaction,
- 15:02Josh: where now not only are you going to be
- 15:05Josh: Maybe perhaps recording the person across from you, but now also kind of distracted
- 15:08Josh: by this device on your face where now, oh, and not only am I barely listening
- 15:13Josh: to you, but I'm looking at this display because when you look at the display,
- 15:15Josh: your eyes kind of wander a little bit, you don't make direct eye contact.
- 15:18Josh: And you're also like, oh, I'm also kind of writing on the side and I'm doing these things.
- 15:21Josh: And he's kind of digging himself a deeper hole by pitching it as this multitasking
- 15:25Josh: device, this intrusive device.
- 15:28Josh: It's just, it doesn't really sit well with me in terms of how i
- 15:31Josh: want to use it or how i would suggest other people use
- 15:34Josh: it so i don't know the demos again a little weird
- 15:37Josh: but the demo was great and one of the things that he
- 15:39Josh: bragged about was i think he said it was 30 words per minute he was able
- 15:42Josh: to achieve with the actual handwriting so it creates this cool thing where there's
- 15:47Josh: this new acquired skill set you'll need to learn to engage with these devices
- 15:50Josh: writing being one of them and i think that's that's a fun thing it's like okay
- 15:54Josh: cool we have this like new tool we can learn how to use it learn how to optimize
- 15:57Josh: it learn how to extracts more value out of it but yeah a little a little weird i
- 16:01Ejaaz: Um i i just remembered that he announced a new feature with these glasses um
- 16:06Ejaaz: which was conversation focus mode.
- 16:10Josh: Which is antithetical
- 16:12Ejaaz: To the case study that he's pitching on stage right now um for those of you
- 16:16Ejaaz: who didn't catch it it's basically like a button or a gesture that you can make
- 16:20Ejaaz: which um kind of like drowns out any other surrounding noise and amplifies the
- 16:27Ejaaz: voice of the person that's speaking in front of you.
- 16:30Ejaaz: So let's say you're in the room with me, Josh, and I'm speaking to you and you're
- 16:33Ejaaz: like, whatever, two feet, three feet, whatever away from me.
- 16:36Ejaaz: But we're in New York, there's a lot of traffic, there's a lot of construction.
- 16:39Ejaaz: It drowns all of that out and your voice is amplified into my ear through the
- 16:42Ejaaz: speakers in the handles.
- 16:44Ejaaz: So it's kind of like this push and pull of like, what are you trying to achieve with these glasses?
- 16:50Ejaaz: Is it multitasking or is it kind of focus or is it both it might work i don't know but i'm not
- 16:58Ejaaz: convinced.
- 16:59Josh: Yeah, you mentioned this earlier, the Steve Jobs demonstration.
- 17:02Josh: I think growing up watching Steve do these presentations has permanently tarnished
- 17:05Josh: all future presentations because they were really very, very focused.
- 17:09Josh: You left with a very clear vision of the future. They delivered on a very clear value in the present.
- 17:14Josh: And a lot of this presentation left me not only like feeling like it was kind
- 17:18Josh: of like not a serious thing, but wondering where's all this going?
- 17:21Josh: You're kind of seeing these small signs of life and small signs of this
- 17:24Josh: AI convergence with hardware one of them being the demo
- 17:27Josh: that you mentioned where it will actually pick up a voice and it will automatically amplify
- 17:31Josh: that voice it's a smart feature but it's kind of pitched in
- 17:34Josh: this weird convoluted confusing way where i'm not quite sure
- 17:36Josh: what i would use it for today being someone who doesn't use meta's ecosystem
- 17:41Josh: and i'm not quite sure what i'm going to use it for in the future because there
- 17:44Josh: was really wasn't a clear vision of where it's going just like these things
- 17:47Josh: are going to get better but i mean even if the voice amplification or the live
- 17:51Josh: translation gets it's better, like, I still, it's not going to do it for me.
- 17:55Josh: But there's another demo on screen. This wasn't the only demo that worked.
- 17:58Josh: Here's the second one that worked.
- 17:59Ejaaz: Yeah, yeah, it's a live translation feature. So for all my subtitle reader fans out here, I'm one of you.
- 18:07Ejaaz: The ones who read the subs despite the movie being in your native language or
- 18:12Ejaaz: in English or whatever it might be.
- 18:14Ejaaz: This is the ideal feature for you. It is basically live subtitles as the person
- 18:18Ejaaz: in front of you is speaking. So it appears on the high res display.
- 18:22Ejaaz: So for those people who kind of like mumble or who talk quietly, no more.
- 18:27Ejaaz: You'll understand anything and everything that they say in real time. It's pretty cool.
- 18:32Ejaaz: I don't know if this is groundbreaking to me, but it was one of the few demos
- 18:36Ejaaz: that actually worked. So we have to talk about it.
- 18:39Josh: There was, there's an interesting thing where you could see how this would be
- 18:42Josh: really cool for live translation in regards to like different languages.
- 18:46Josh: We saw that recently with the Apple event. We saw it again with the Google event
- 18:49Josh: where this live translation is becoming a cool thing.
- 18:51Josh: So this particular example was English, which was left a little to be desired.
- 18:55Josh: But I think the actual technology is pretty cool.
- 18:57Josh: The latency, it appears like it was pretty quick. So it's almost real-time translation.
- 19:02Josh: But again, it's like, okay, Do I want an $800 pair of glasses to amplify the
- 19:06Josh: person I'm talking to and then give me subtitles?
- 19:09Josh: It's like, I think these are a little uninspiring for the potential of this technology.
- 19:13Ejaaz: And they should have demonstrated it with a different language.
- 19:16Ejaaz: I looked up the features after this stream and apparently German and Portuguese
- 19:21Ejaaz: is available for live translation.
- 19:23Ejaaz: So why not demo that in the demo? It's just surprising.
- 19:28Josh: And why only those two languages too? It's bizarre. yeah going
- 19:31Ejaaz: Into uh yours maybe both of ours favorite topic the fail demos there were some
- 19:36Ejaaz: there were some pretty pretty awkward fails um so.
- 19:40Josh: I had i was looking at my notes i was
- 19:43Josh: taking live notes last night as i was watching this and i have a line
- 19:46Josh: in my notepad that says omg i can't believe
- 19:49Josh: this is real and it was happening as this demo was going on this was i like
- 19:54Josh: my my skin started to curl as i was watching this because it was so awkward
- 19:59Josh: and i love that they did live demos and like i trust zuck and the fact that
- 20:03Josh: like this this works sure but like my god that was tough to watch
- 20:07Ejaaz: It was super tough. And you know why it was a double whammy?
- 20:10Ejaaz: Okay, well, firstly, let me give you some context.
- 20:13Ejaaz: For those who are listening on the screen here, we have Mark demoing a live
- 20:18Ejaaz: video call that you can execute from these new glasses, except the call never went through.
- 20:25Ejaaz: He got called maybe five times from the person that he was trying to demo with.
- 20:29Ejaaz: And he was unable to pick up. He kept saying, answer the phone,
- 20:33Ejaaz: or he would gesture with his hand to answer the call.
- 20:36Ejaaz: And it just would not work. The reason why this is a double whammy is the app
- 20:41Ejaaz: they were using was WhatsApp, which is their own feature as well.
- 20:45Ejaaz: So it really wasn't a good demonstration of the technology or the app.
- 20:49Ejaaz: Now, to kind of give them a bit of slack, there has been Wi-Fi issues that have
- 20:55Ejaaz: failed live demos before, but you're meta.
- 20:58Ejaaz: You spent $25 billion to acquire 100 of the best AI researchers.
- 21:04Ejaaz: Can you spend a couple of that on maybe better Wi-Fi infrastructure?
- 21:08Ejaaz: I'm not trying to shit on you. I'm just trying to make a valid point here.
- 21:11Ejaaz: If you're going to live demo something that is a new form factor that is meant
- 21:14Ejaaz: to kill the iPhone, you need to kind of like be on it.
- 21:18Josh: Yeah, I think the the live demos I actually really admire and I appreciate the
- 21:22Josh: fact they did it because Google or Apple recently has strayed away from them.
- 21:25Josh: And I think it's just it's kind of gross. Do it in real time. Let's see that it works.
- 21:28Josh: The thing for me is that even if all of the live demos worked fine,
- 21:31Josh: like I actually don't care that they failed. I believe that they do work and
- 21:35Josh: I believe that they work well.
- 21:36Josh: But even if those features do work, I still don't really care.
- 21:39Josh: I'm looking at him use the interface. I'm looking at him navigate around.
- 21:42Josh: And I'm realizing, well, by signing up for these glasses, you're signing up
- 21:45Josh: for the meta ecosystem. And that is a place where I have zero roots or zero
- 21:49Josh: allegiance or zero interest in actually using.
- 21:52Josh: I'm seeing him. He's using WhatsApp and he's using Facebook Messenger.
- 21:55Josh: And that's where all these messages are kind of populating. And I'm like,
- 21:58Josh: this is not a device for me. And how many people is this actually a device for?
- 22:02Josh: It's funny. I don't have glasses. I don't wear glasses for this episode.
- 22:05Josh: I found a pair and I put them on because I was like, well, what does it feel
- 22:08Josh: like to actually wear glasses? Because I never do.
- 22:10Josh: And it's just like, if I if I have to wear an $800 pair of bulky glasses that
- 22:15Josh: I don't think looked that great just to translate some subtitles in a native
- 22:18Josh: language that i already understand it's like okay like where where are the really
- 22:22Josh: cool use cases that get me fired up they were mia
- 22:25Ejaaz: Okay i'm gonna do two things now i'm going to uh give you some counter arguments
- 22:31Ejaaz: so what do you just propose because i kind of disagree with a few things and
- 22:35Ejaaz: then i'm gonna kind of kind of agree with a few things and give examples of
- 22:39Ejaaz: where they actually succeeded in the Yeah, it's sick.
- 22:42Ejaaz: What do you got? So firstly, remember when the airports first came out and people
- 22:46Ejaaz: were like, oh, these kind of look weird. I like my wired headphones.
- 22:50Ejaaz: Now everyone and their mom wears them, right?
- 22:53Ejaaz: And the reason why is because they were just about cool enough to make it without
- 22:58Ejaaz: looking like chunky metal blocks in your ear. I think the same is going to happen with glasses.
- 23:04Ejaaz: And to be honest, if I look at the progression from Google Glass,
- 23:08Ejaaz: which was this futuristic, cringe-looking thing, to where we are with these
- 23:12Ejaaz: new Oakley and Meta Ray-Bans. I mean, it's literally in the name. It's Ray-Bans, right?
- 23:16Ejaaz: Ray-Bans have been known for killing the sunglass game for decades now.
- 23:19Ejaaz: I think we have a good shot at maybe producing a consumer wearable that anyone
- 23:24Ejaaz: and everyone will be cool with wearing, right? The second thing is...
- 23:28Ejaaz: I actually like the live demos, and I think at the end of the day,
- 23:32Ejaaz: I'm still optimistic about it because I know Meta will probably work through the bugs.
- 23:37Ejaaz: They're going to fix all of them, and it'll probably end up being a coherent, usable product.
- 23:43Ejaaz: The other thing is it's affordable.
- 23:45Ejaaz: Now, they didn't do the Apple thing where they were like, this is going to be
- 23:48Ejaaz: thousands of dollars or whatever the premium pricing is for whoever at this point.
- 23:53Ejaaz: It is something that is affordable, at least for most people in tech, to try out.
- 23:58Ejaaz: And I think the audience that they're going after is, you know,
- 24:01Ejaaz: these Gen Z kids, which want a MacBook, which want their iPhone,
- 24:04Ejaaz: which want a bunch of different things.
- 24:05Ejaaz: You know, they're willing to kind of spend this extra money to try this.
- 24:09Ejaaz: Now, where I agree with you heavily is the ecosystem.
- 24:13Ejaaz: Yeah, I don't use WhatsApp. It's just Instagram. So when I think about,
- 24:17Ejaaz: you know, being plugged into Meta AI and the quality of their AI assistant,
- 24:23Ejaaz: which I don't know about you, Josh, but I've never actually used to any length
- 24:27Ejaaz: of time outside of experiments.
- 24:29Josh: Yeah.
- 24:30Ejaaz: I'm not convinced. This kind of feels like me using some low-grade AI assistant. Dare I say Siri?
- 24:38Ejaaz: Shout out Apple. Sorry. But I don't think it's coherent or usable enough for
- 24:43Ejaaz: me to be really invested in these gases.
- 24:47Ejaaz: I think the object, the device is super cool,
- 24:50Ejaaz: but i think the technology and software which at the end of the day is going
- 24:53Ejaaz: to be the thing that scales it it's going to be the thing that puts the nail
- 24:57Ejaaz: in the coffin to an iphone if that ever exists is still unproved and yet to
- 25:02Ejaaz: be kind of built out um and i'm not quite seeing it with this release.
- 25:06Josh: Yeah so there's two two points that you made that i want
- 25:09Josh: to talk about because i think they're both interesting is is the google glass reference because
- 25:12Josh: google glass came out in 2013 that's 12
- 25:15Josh: years ago and a lot of the times when we're kind of
- 25:18Josh: analyzing these companies we're looking at the rate of acceleration the
- 25:21Josh: rate of improvement year over year as things gets better as a
- 25:24Josh: way to kind of judge future returns so you just kind of assume
- 25:27Josh: that they're on the flat part right now of the exponential curve but the
- 25:30Josh: progress that is being made year over year is is really
- 25:33Josh: marginal relative to what it should be where i can
- 25:36Josh: see the same presentation happening four years in advance with
- 25:39Josh: kind of like iphone level incrementation like oh now the camera instead
- 25:42Josh: of 3k it's 4k oh it has a wider field of view oh it
- 25:45Josh: has double the pixel count in the displays and it still doesn't change
- 25:48Josh: the fact that it's not an interesting product because it doesn't have the software ecosystem
- 25:51Josh: to back it up and then the second thing was on price which is eight hundred
- 25:55Josh: dollars you said it's like pretty affordable for what you're getting it's like
- 25:57Josh: you're getting these cool glasses with this display you're getting the wrist
- 26:00Josh: strap but he just do you not think that's subsidized in an attempt to gain users
- 26:05Josh: early before other companies release actually good hardware and
- 26:09Josh: I just bought, Apple has the Apple Watch Ultra. It drops tomorrow on Friday.
- 26:13Josh: And I paid $800 for a watch, just a single wrist strap.
- 26:17Josh: And yeah, it's made of titanium and has the cool chips, but it costs $800.
- 26:22Josh: And that is from Apple, who has a very well-established supply chain and manufacturing
- 26:26Josh: capabilities and prices at reasonable margins because they have a lot of competition.
- 26:30Josh: So for Meta to price a device this compelling in terms of frontier technology,
- 26:34Josh: I strongly suspect there's no way, including all the R&D costs and everything
- 26:38Josh: it took to get this thing out the door, that it really costs less than $800.
- 26:43Josh: This device absolutely costs more than $800. They have the wrist strap. They have the glasses.
- 26:47Josh: It's like, I very strongly suspect that they are subsidizing the price in order
- 26:52Josh: to gain users to sync them more into the ecosystem before, I mean,
- 26:55Josh: like I said earlier, before other companies actually make good products.
- 26:57Josh: If Apple released a pair of glasses that were even marginally close to this,
- 27:02Josh: I would spend twice as much.
- 27:03Josh: Even if Google did, I would probably spend a lot more because Google makes good hardware products.
- 27:07Josh: The reality is meta this is just like it's a mediocre hardware product
- 27:10Josh: and they're probably doing all they can to gain gain uses early which is like
- 27:14Josh: maybe a hot take in terms of the mediocrity because i mean again i don't want
- 27:17Josh: to judge it without using it because we haven't used it and all the people who've
- 27:20Josh: tried it said it's remarkable it's really cool so i think we should probably
- 27:23Josh: reserve final judgment until we hit the demo but just based on first impressions
- 27:27Josh: it's like okay this is probably their strategy let
- 27:30Ejaaz: Me steel man um what mess his argument might be.
- 27:34Josh: Right uh so what
- 27:36Ejaaz: So what? They haven't been in the hardware game meaningfully.
- 27:41Ejaaz: Yeah, they acquired Oculus and they've gone down the AR, VR route.
- 27:45Ejaaz: But this is the first, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, like homegrown product.
- 27:50Ejaaz: Like they have been working on this neural wristband for years now.
- 27:54Ejaaz: And it's their first kind of foray into a new form factor by far, right?
- 27:58Josh: So maybe pricing it at
- 28:00Ejaaz: A cheap enough point where the hardware is kind of gimmicky but good enough
- 28:04Ejaaz: is good enough to get a distribution to a loyal fan base, of which they already
- 28:09Ejaaz: have tons of online users, right?
- 28:12Ejaaz: And then number two, I'm thinking maybe this is a problem that solves itself
- 28:16Ejaaz: just by chucking money at it from the manufacturing perspective.
- 28:20Ejaaz: That might be a super, super naive take, but I'm guessing that that might be
- 28:24Ejaaz: a strategy that Zuck has thought about.
- 28:26Ejaaz: And we might end up seeing a bunch of infrastructure or hardware manufacturing
- 28:30Ejaaz: supply chain partnerships over the next couple of months. remains to be seen.
- 28:35Ejaaz: Now, if I'm to look at your point around Apple, I would say that not only would
- 28:40Ejaaz: people pay $800 or maybe even double that for the new watch,
- 28:45Ejaaz: it's because you have ecosystem lock-in.
- 28:47Ejaaz: It's because the software experience and the app experience is so damn good.
- 28:52Ejaaz: And that's kind of Apple's leverage at this point. It's this kind of like coherent
- 28:56Ejaaz: system where if they released an AI hardware product tomorrow, I'm there.
- 29:01Ejaaz: I'm buying it. All my friends are using the Apple ecosystem anyway, right?
- 29:05Ejaaz: So I'm still an Apple fanboy, and the meta AI stuff kind of icks me,
- 29:09Ejaaz: but I can appreciate the attempt that they're going for.
- 29:12Ejaaz: And if they have even one, Josh, okay, imagine this, just one novel use case that goes viral.
- 29:19Ejaaz: And let me make a guess at what that might be. Please. Okay.
- 29:23Ejaaz: Um it is going to be some form of
- 29:26Ejaaz: streaming streaming content is becoming super popular
- 29:30Ejaaz: amongst the gen z sports people social media
- 29:32Ejaaz: is everywhere if i can stream a video or stream
- 29:35Ejaaz: my life in general clip the cool clips post it on my social media it goes viral
- 29:41Ejaaz: that might be good enough to sway me to use it now are all demographics of people
- 29:46Ejaaz: using this probably not are you going to walk into your wall street job with
- 29:51Ejaaz: these glasses on and stare at the charts,
- 29:53Ejaaz: maybe 10 years from now, but certainly not now, right?
- 29:56Ejaaz: I feel like this appeals to maybe a younger audience. That might be why Zuck
- 29:59Ejaaz: is wearing gold chains every now and then.
- 30:01Ejaaz: But I feel like that's the that's the demographic that he's going for.
- 30:04Ejaaz: Kind of like Gen Z teenagers, social content people.
- 30:08Josh: Yeah, we're not even talking about the outfits he walked out on stage.
- 30:10Josh: We'll save that for later.
- 30:12Josh: There was like two more things, I guess. One is the AI that runs locally on the device.
- 30:17Josh: I'm unsure, EJ, if there is much of it. Like I'm very
- 30:20Josh: interested in the intelligence because he led with that super intelligence line
- 30:23Josh: he used the s word um but the intelligence seemed pretty rudimentary it was
- 30:27Josh: kind of like they showed a demo where they were in a surf shop and you look
- 30:30Josh: at a surfboard and they're like oh here's an email that you talked about a surfboard
- 30:33Josh: and it feels kind of like what what i would imagine siri and apple intelligence
- 30:36Josh: would be which is bad um but
- 30:39Josh: moderately helpful um and then also there was
- 30:42Josh: other things we probably should round this out with the rest of the stuff that
- 30:45Josh: was announced during the presentation because it wasn't just this one
- 30:48Josh: set of glasses there was a few things we could kind of speed run
- 30:51Josh: through them if you'd like um the first
- 30:54Josh: one oh here we are yes the oakley meta vanguard glasses so prior to making this
- 30:57Josh: big announcement of the displays they released a few glasses and to me this
- 31:00Josh: felt like so i love photography videography camera stuff this felt like i was
- 31:04Josh: watching a gopro announcement it was an action camera they partnered with red
- 31:07Josh: bull to do a promo video uh it's like it feels like a
- 31:12Josh: Really bizarre anomaly for a company like meta who's
- 31:15Josh: going for agi to drop an action camera attached to glasses um
- 31:18Josh: friend of the pod host of the pod david hoffman
- 31:21Josh: he messaged us he said i'm getting a pair of these this is
- 31:24Josh: my pair david loves climbing he loves i
- 31:27Josh: mean presumably recording the climbing and uses a bulky gopro setup
- 31:30Josh: so this is cool for people like that a few
- 31:33Josh: specs on these glasses because there was some interesting noteworthy
- 31:37Josh: things for these um they're targeted at athletes first
- 31:40Josh: sport specific glasses they are ip67 rated which means they're dust resistant
- 31:44Josh: and water resistant you can wear them get them wet drop them in water they have
- 31:47Josh: a 12 megapixel camera 122 field of view 122 degree field of view which is pretty
- 31:52Josh: wide for a lot of people who aren't familiar with that uh the battery lasts
- 31:56Josh: up to nine hours and it captures 3k video for
- 32:00Josh: 499 so the 3k video i thought was funny um
- 32:04Josh: it's like okay why like it's like people don't call 2k video 2k at just 1080p
- 32:11Josh: because it's 1920 by 1080 and for 4k it's like 38 60 by 2010 uh so like the
- 32:16Josh: 3k is just interesting marketing i guess it sounds cool i
- 32:19Ejaaz: Don't think i've ever heard anyone market it at 3k before.
- 32:22Josh: Yeah because like no like you do 1080p or 4k like you're just doing this weird
- 32:26Josh: incremental thing that i don't love but whatever um but the glasses i mean here
- 32:30Josh: they are they look interesting it's like my past self who was playing baseball
- 32:34Josh: games in the outfield i'd love this i can get some live content and be catching
- 32:37Josh: a fly ball but i'm not sure what
- 32:39Ejaaz: Do you think of the camera smack bang in the center.
- 32:42Josh: So look at this this is like this was not a
- 32:45Josh: serious presentation like it really like i
- 32:48Josh: don't know how what is this
- 32:51Josh: but like this was a presentation that needed to be made in
- 32:54Josh: two or three years this is like not a presentation that should have been made
- 32:57Josh: today and what we're seeing is just like this is not i mean it's a cute little
- 33:01Josh: action camera from a god knows how many hundreds of billions of dollars of r&d
- 33:04Josh: budget so like okay cool they also did this not just with oakley but with uh
- 33:09Josh: the ray-bans as well they released the ray-ban metagen twos which are like those
- 33:14Josh: trademarked yeah here they are those like trademarked glasses you see everywhere
- 33:17Josh: these look a little more compelling because they're just a little bit smaller
- 33:20Josh: um these start a little bit cheaper at 379 but again like okay they'll talk
- 33:26Josh: to you and you can kind of ask you questions there's no display integrated in
- 33:28Josh: them it's like it's a little bit better than the last generation um and that
- 33:32Josh: was that was it for the hardware there was three glasses one wrist strap and a lot of um
- 33:38Josh: enthusiasm and open-ended questions i
- 33:41Ejaaz: Have a question for you josh yes before we round up and this is a very important
- 33:45Ejaaz: question so think about it are glasses the final form factor for AI consumer devices?
- 33:53Josh: No, I don't think so. I think the final form isn't a single form.
- 33:59Josh: And I think this is something that is going to take a while to train people's
- 34:02Josh: brains because we've become so accustomed to relying on single devices like
- 34:05Josh: our iPhone to do everything.
- 34:07Josh: One of the benefits of AI that we get is a lot of context that is distributed across devices.
- 34:13Josh: So if you think of like EJazz as being a singular profile that exists in the cloud,
- 34:18Josh: that profile is it can be secured and it
- 34:21Josh: can be full of context and it can be uniquely you and that
- 34:23Josh: profile can be carried to a stream of devices that isn't one singular iphone
- 34:28Josh: so in the case of this new frontier there's new types of form factors glasses
- 34:33Josh: are absolutely not final form because there is no way in hell i'm going to be
- 34:37Josh: wearing a pair of glasses to like a private dinner and chatting with people
- 34:40Josh: and just letting it like it's just not it's too intrusive
- 34:44Josh: To have a series, a suite of devices, you have your phone, you have a display
- 34:48Josh: on the wall, you have glasses on your face, you have smart AI in your earbuds,
- 34:51Josh: you have a little puck on your desk.
- 34:53Josh: I think the future form factor is really varied.
- 34:57Josh: It exists in a lot of different forms, but it uses this one type of intelligence,
- 35:02Josh: which is AI, this context window.
- 35:04Josh: And the term that people are using for that is ambient AI, ambient intelligence.
- 35:08Josh: It just kind of exists in devices around you. it's very portable it's very modular
- 35:12Josh: but it's not locked into a singular device so while i think glasses are part
- 35:17Josh: of that ecosystem i do not like think they are the the single form that will
- 35:20Josh: lead the way in terms of replacing something like an iphone
- 35:23Ejaaz: Agreed it won't be the ultimate form i think the ultimate form of you and i
- 35:27Ejaaz: probably both agree here it will be some form of like chip in the brain and
- 35:30Ejaaz: the projection of display will be on our actual eyelids eyelids on our actual eye lens on.
- 35:37Josh: Your neural cortex forget the
- 35:38Ejaaz: Eyeballs those are lame okay there you
- 35:41Ejaaz: go so so we have basically an ai brain um
- 35:45Ejaaz: that does all the cool functions for us but that's
- 35:48Ejaaz: gonna take decades like you said so in the
- 35:51Ejaaz: intermediary what do you think is the new cell
- 35:54Ejaaz: phone moment it could it be glasses or
- 35:57Ejaaz: is it uh the puck like device that we
- 36:00Ejaaz: discussed in the past i'll give you i'll give you my take yeah let's hear it
- 36:04Ejaaz: i think i think glasses is a fantastic step in the right direction and i think
- 36:10Ejaaz: it'll be one if not the only intermediary device that's going to work at least
- 36:17Ejaaz: for the next decade and and here's my reasoning.
- 36:20Ejaaz: You need something visual that you kind of can wear, but doesn't bother you too much.
- 36:27Ejaaz: I think AirPods demonstrated that we're okay doing that with one form of medium,
- 36:32Ejaaz: which is music and listening and calls, that part of our social life.
- 36:37Ejaaz: But visual never really got kind of upgraded from staring at a metal slab and
- 36:43Ejaaz: having to pick it up, having to go to a bigger metal slab.
- 36:46Ejaaz: I'm gesturing to my laptop that's in front of me.
- 36:48Ejaaz: It's kind of clunky. So I feel like something that follows me everywhere.
- 36:52Ejaaz: Yeah, glasses kind of seem annoying, but I don't know.
- 36:55Ejaaz: If you can do it in a way where my vision isn't impaired too much,
- 36:59Ejaaz: where there's no like crazy filter or colored filter, I could wear it. Just make me look cool.
- 37:05Ejaaz: And I could wear it. That sounds good, right?
- 37:09Ejaaz: The other thing is last week, we spoke about Apple's new iPhone Air.
- 37:13Ejaaz: I have mine arriving tomorrow.
- 37:16Josh: I cannot wait. We're both getting new phones tomorrow. Let's go.
- 37:19Ejaaz: We're both getting new phones and it's actually both of the different
- 37:21Ejaaz: models so we can demonstrate that live but the amazing
- 37:26Ejaaz: um part of the iphone air
- 37:29Ejaaz: is the entire computer chips everything aside
- 37:32Ejaaz: from the battery was contained in just the camera slot where you would normally
- 37:37Ejaaz: see on your phone so like it's it's just in this tiny square for those of you
- 37:40Ejaaz: looking at this screen i'm holding up an iphone and the camera part of it the
- 37:43Ejaaz: plateau right um that suggests to me that they are also heading towards a world
- 37:49Ejaaz: where they're going to release some kind of small device,
- 37:52Ejaaz: most likely a wearable or something that you can wear on you that will do something
- 37:56Ejaaz: similar to what these glasses are doing.
- 37:58Ejaaz: It kind of indicates that glasses might be the thing. I might be getting ahead
- 38:01Ejaaz: of my skis on this one, but I think it's the ideal form factor for the next day.
- 38:09Josh: I've spent a lot of time thinking about it, and the mistake that I caught myself
- 38:12Josh: making was thinking that there will be another iPhone.
- 38:15Josh: And I really, I genuinely don't believe there will be another iPhone.
- 38:18Josh: It is the singular moment in history that will not be replicated because the
- 38:22Josh: future technology does not enable it to happen.
- 38:25Josh: The glasses are awesome, and I very strongly agree that everyone's working on
- 38:29Josh: them and everyone will be wearing them.
- 38:31Josh: But it is part of a larger ecosystem that kind of exists in this ambient space
- 38:35Josh: versus a singular device.
- 38:37Josh: And I think that's what Meta is going for. I mean, that's why they changed their
- 38:39Josh: entire name from Facebook to Meta.
- 38:41Josh: They are building these devices for a metaverse, for a reality that exists multimodal.
- 38:47Josh: It exists in this like meat space that we're in today, but also in an overlaid
- 38:51Josh: world that is littered with virtual and digital avatars and worlds.
- 38:57Josh: So that's kind of where we land with Meta.
- 38:59Josh: It's like, OK, cool today. Ejaz, are you getting you're getting a pair?
- 39:04Ejaaz: I'm going to get a pair. And I just want to point out, Josh,
- 39:06Ejaaz: you're still wearing the glasses that you were demonstrating earlier.
- 39:10Ejaaz: So I'm just saying, I'm just saying maybe you may not care about it.
- 39:14Josh: They're comfortable. I can see why people wear these all day,
- 39:16Josh: even if they don't have a choice.
- 39:19Ejaaz: But these glasses come out on the 30th of September.
- 39:23Ejaaz: They are priced at $799, which is for the fancy new thing, the one that comes
- 39:28Ejaaz: with the neural wristband.
- 39:30Ejaaz: So you're getting two devices for a singular price of $799.
- 39:35Ejaaz: And if that's still out of your price range, you can get the Oakleys at $499
- 39:39Ejaaz: and the Ray-Ban Gen 2s at, I think it was $345.
- 39:45Ejaaz: Something like that. $379? Okay.
- 39:46Ejaaz: So, so much, much cheaper than the Apple ecosystem, but you know,
- 39:50Ejaaz: they come out on September 30th for the, for the new ones.
- 39:53Josh: We were yapping today. We're at 45 minutes long. If you made it to the end,
- 39:56Josh: thank you for sticking with us.
- 39:58Josh: Guys, the comment section and the reaction to some of our most recent episodes have been insane.
- 40:03Josh: You got like, whoever's been sticking to the end, whoever's been sending comments
- 40:06Josh: and messages, it's been so generous.
- 40:08Josh: And I woke up this morning and I messaged Ejaz, like just to go look at it because
- 40:12Josh: it was really, it's, it's so special.
- 40:14Josh: So we appreciate you not only sticking to the end of a 45 minute rant about
- 40:18Josh: the new frontier of this meta hardware technology, but also just engaging with
- 40:22Josh: all the content. You got a bunch of new subscribers.
- 40:24Josh: We have a bunch of comments like, thank you. We are so excited to wake up and
- 40:27Josh: record these episodes. We have so many more coming down the pipeline.
- 40:31Josh: And yeah, just appreciate you sticking with us. So again, as always,
- 40:34Josh: if you enjoyed, share with your friends. Any parting words, Ejaz,
- 40:37Josh: anything to leave the people with?
- 40:38Ejaaz: Leave more comments. Buy these glasses. Or will you not buy these glasses?
- 40:43Ejaaz: Tell us if you're not going to buy these glasses.
- 40:44Ejaaz: Tell us why it's not cool. Tell us why it's impractical or tell us why it's
- 40:48Ejaaz: the next best thing. We don't know.
- 40:51Josh: We want to hear from you. Yeah, prove me wrong. Tell me why it's sick.
- 40:54Josh: And like, I didn't waste an hour of my time last night. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
- 40:57Ejaaz: It was cool, it was cool.
- 40:59Josh: Technooptimist, keep shipping in public.
- 41:00Ejaaz: We weren't going to do anything anyway last night, Josh, we're nerds.
- 41:04Josh: That's so true, that's so true. But yeah, pro team Zuck, keep shipping,
- 41:07Josh: keep spending those billions of dollars. We are building a brighter future.
- 41:10Josh: So as always, thank you for watching. We appreciate it. And we'll see you.
- 41:14Music: Music