Last week Meta introduced a new lineup of VR and AR lenses. The highlight of the event, by far, was the tease into Orion, Meta's prototype for the vision of AR. In this week's episode, Carl and Eitan share their thoughts about what seems to be a promising direction.

After that they touch on the news of James Cameron joining the board of Stability AI, and what it might (or not!) mean for the future of filmmaking.

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Not going to sugar coat this: Carl & Eitan are just really, really excited about going to Casa Bonita. Also, Carl loved The Substance.

Apple, macroeconomics, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, boat rides. This episode has it all.

Eitan and Carl start by reacting to Apple's hardware announcements, including new Airpods, iPhones, and deafening silence around the Vision Pro.

Later, the boys talk about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice being reasonably reasonably fun fun. They share their favorite parts, their favorite pun, and the things they wish were a bit different.

Tangents this week include headphones, macroeconomics, and a game on the best type of ride vehicles.

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It's a grab-bag episode this week on Stuck in Development as Carl & Eitan catch up on the box office, get hyped about the possibility of going to Denver's Casa Bonita and check in on Edward Berger.

Carl and Eitan start the episode by congratulating Paramount for getting unstock with the conglomerate's shopping window closing, making Skydance the super official winner (vF vThisOne vToPrint). Stop us if you've heard that before.

Then, they welcome Venu as the latest to get Stuck in Development. The boys explore Fubo's injunction and share their predictions of what will ultimately happen with the Disney+WBD+Fox sports venture. Spoiler, it's no bueno.

Finally, they close by trying to find a reason why anyone would be excited about having Anthropic LLM models available in Alexa.

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It's a pretty dire news week on Stuck in Development! Carl & Eitan discuss the AI-ensh**ified Megalopolis trailer, Disney's TOC-based judicial cowardice & a Google antitrust ruling that hurts Apple more than anyone.

A week with two Olympics!?

In this episode the boys go through the media business of the actual Olympic games, and Eitan shares his main takeaways from attending Paris 2024 (including, of course, comparing them to a theme park).

They then review the Disney Theme Park Olympics, also known as D23, which includes major (and minor) announcements of upcoming projects across the Mouse live entertainment portfolio.

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After tripping over themselves to discuss a number of streaming topics – including the new Disney + Max bundle – the boys look into Amazon's rumored premium Alexa subscription and chat about Carl's experience with Vera Drew's The People's Joker. Also, Eitan shows off The Gadget (??).

It happened! Finally! The 2024 Stuck In Development Topic finally got unstock.

Eitan and Carl dive into the 'merger' of Skydance and Paramount, making a stop in Financials Town before ending on is-this-a-good-idea-ville.

Before climbing into Paramount Mountain, the boys also partake in a fire round to catch up on everything they missed on their hiatus.

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Movies! (Inside Out 2, The Bikeriders)

Business!

FastPass & Theme Parks!

We'll be off next week for July 4th.