26: Mixed Reality

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01/14/25 • 61 min

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This week we have some exciting news. A friend of the show Jernej from Gentle Giant illustrations has kindly created the show some new cover artwork. The artwork depicts Seattle’s famous Pike Place Market sign with the Coffee & Code Cast written across it. Of course, also included is Seattle’s beautiful skyline, and no Seattle anything is ever complete without the Space Needle.

In episode 23 we discussed a bar game called Erotic Photo Hunt. The game is a racy version of a spot the differences type game where you tap on the differences between the images. We discussed that the game isn’t found very often anymore or that it’s being discontinued according to Eater.com

A co-worker relayed a picture that they found a working copy of the game in a bar in Seattle’s Fremont/Ballard neighborhood.

This week was Mobile World Congress and Microsoft’s Holo Lens 2 was shown in many demos. Some demos showed a VR world that “follows” you or stays in your line of sight and some showed you walking around a stationary type virtual object.

No Coffee & Code Cast is complete without Tesla news. This week the show discusses two new modes Tesla has unveiled via software update. Dog Mode is a new option a driver can enable as they leave the car to maintain the temperature in extreme heat or cold conditions. The display also notes for any passerby that the car is maintaining the temperature and exactly what the interior temp of the car is at that moment.

The second mode is Sentry mode which effectively gives you a form of video surveillance of your car while you are away. The video is recorded to your thumb drive and unavailable via the Tesla app. However, if your card is nudged or hit the car will fire your phone notification and record from all cameras the car offers.

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Show News
Follow up:
Spring Training
Mixed Reality / Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality
Tesla News!!
Giant Undersea Cables

Erotic Photo Hunt FollowupMixed Reality / Virtual Reality / Augmented RealityTesla Sentry & Dog ModeShow Notes

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A co-worker relayed a picture that they found a working copy of the game in a bar in Seattle’s Fremont/Ballard neighborhood.

Theme Music
Show News
Follow up:
Spring Training
Mixed Reality / Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality
Tesla News!!
Giant Undersea Cables

Erotic Photo Hunt FollowupMixed Reality / Virtual Reality / Augmented RealityTesla Sentry & Dog ModeShow Notes

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In a follow-up from last week's episode number 26 Tesla reversed course on closing all its showrooms and will keep a few of them open. To handle the increased cost of operating those facilities they are increasing their vehicle prices across the board with the exception of one. We discuss the rollbacks in Kyle’s favorite segment.

Our primary topic for the show is the discussion of reorganizing teams. There’s a lot to cover here and we discuss the pros and the cons. We talk about all the different eyes that might be on the restructuring. When is an ideal time to execute something like this and of course why you might want to take on a task like this?