Published 9 December 2024

e492 with Michael & Michael — holiday desktop decorations, AR, immersive video in sports, user experience and interaction and a whole lot more!

Michael and Michael start off the show with a couple of holiday links to get everyone in a festive mood.  The Festivitas app provides an opportunity to decorate the Mac desktop and menu bar with festive lights.  NASA contributes an 8 hour video of a fireplace with the Space Launch System’s four RS-25 engines and a pair of boosters to provide additional holiday cheer.

Turning to the AR & VR stories for this episode, the cohosts consider the rumors of whether smart glasses may turn up at the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event in February next year.   Then Michael and Michael turn to the possibility of live-streaming a Real Madrid match in Santiago Bernabéu by upgrading the cameras in the stadium.  

Next, the pair discuss the Flexbar kickstarter for Windows and Mac computers which brings a skinny 10 inch color OLED screen, dynamically configured with shortcuts, buttons and tools, similar to the Touch Bar from earlier Macs.  After touching on the MacOS & iPhoneOS phone mirroring capability, the team concludes with a story on recycling cables.

Do you have a drawer full of cables to be recycled?  Are you ready for the feats of strength? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[email protected] (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Festivitas

MacStories article: A Fun Way to Add Holiday Cheer to Your Mac

https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-released-a-fireplace-video-for-the-holidays-and-its-hilarious

Laptop Mag article: Samsung may debut an all-new product during January’s Galaxy Unpacked event

acquired.fm season 11, episode 6 Qualcomm

9 to 5 Mac article: Apple in talks to upgrade a sports stadium for live Vision Pro immersive video

Games at Work e490: Codename – “Amelia”

The Verge article: The Flexbar resurrects the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar as a standalone device

512 Pixels article: iPhone Mirroring is Very Good

Vox article: Your drawer full of old cables is worth more than you think

Gazelle

MakerWorld article: Mac Pro Case for the M1/M2 Mac Studio and Mac mini

Welp. The future of #3dPrinting just dropped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEgwnhLHy3g

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine