Tech Break (Video)

Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica checks in from the show floor at the Game Developers Conference to highlight some of the more important announcements, including the $200 price drop for an Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch.

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Microsoft announced today at the Game Developers Conference that it will release dev kits for Windows Mixed Reality, A.K.A Windows Holographic, this March. The kits will include Acer's Mixed Reality helmet. "Mixed Reality" is Microsoft's catch-all term that combines virtual reality and augmented reality.

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Bob goes over a simple transmitter project he came up with using a pine board.

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Harrison Weber, Executive Editor at VentureBeat, about Midnight Commercial, the company tasked with making a Tardigrade module for the now defunct Project Ara. When Google killed off its Project Ara modular phone late last year, many phone enthusiasts were bummed about what could have been had the concept taken off with the backing of Google itself. Weber wrote about how Google wanted design studios like Midnight Commercial to think big when it came to modules for Ara, beyond the typical crop of speaker and camera attachments.

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Warren Buffet doubles his investment in Apple to more than $17 billion, or about 2.5% of the company. His reason? When he took his great-grandkids to Dairy queen, he asked them how much they love their iPhones. Apparently, they like them a lot.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie

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Game streaming service Twitch will let viewers buy games straight from the stream of their favorite players. Streamers will get 5% of the profits of the sale of the game starting in the Spring of 2017. Scott Johnson from Frogpants says this is great for creators, but will Steam lose sales?

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Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Scott Johnson

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Florence Ion and Duncan Jaffrey give their impressions of the LG G6 smartphone.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Duncan Jaffrey

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Spiral Toys, manufacturer of internet-connected teddy bears "CloudPets" exposed more than 800,000 emails and passwords, as well as children's voice messages.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

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Sequel Pro is a Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.

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Megan Morrone talks to Ashley Esqueda, Senior Editor at CNET and Scott Johnson, creator of Frogpants.com about the future of virtual reality. One of the biggest barriers to entry for Virtual Reality is the cost of getting your own in-home set up. But what if mainstream VR didn't happen in our home? Many people have enjoyed their VR experiences, but are unlikely to run out and get an Rift or a Vive or even a Playstation VR. Partially because of the cost, but also because they don't have a room to dedicate to it. Will we all have our own in-house set ups with the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or Playstation VR. Or will we go to a place like an IMAX Theater or The Void and experience virtual reality in a more social setting. And what is the future of augmented reality?

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